Tag Poor

• Mildred D. Taylor

Song of the Trees

• James A. Michener

The Fires of Spring

• Oscar Lewis

The Children of Sánchez

• Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead/Poor Folk

• Michael Ondaatje

In the Skin of a Lion

• Rick Bragg

All Over But the Shoutin’

• Harry Crews

Scar Lover