Thank you to Stuart Rutherford for this list of books on Microfinance and associated links.
The links are to further information on the book and author, on the 'Good Reads' website, and also comments from readers.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Paperback) 
by Muhammad Yunus, 1991
 
 An early summary of his work by one of the originators of microcredit, the Nobel Prize winning Muhammad Yunus: recommended if you want to know what was in the minds of the pioneers.Bottom of Form

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Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance (Paperback) 
by David Roodman 2011
 
An extremely thoughtful and sympathetic review of the origins and aspirations and success and failures of microfinance. Recommended if you want a serious but well-written review of the subject.

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The Economics of Microfinance (Hardcover) 
by Jonathan Morduch, 2005
 
Microfinance analysed by a sympathetic (and very good) economist: recommended if you want to understand microfinance’s place in the world of banking and economics

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The New Microfinance Handbook: A Financial Market System Perspective (Paperback) 
by Joanna Ledgerwood  2012
 

 A standard guide for microfinance practitioners and commentators.

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In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development (Paperback) 
by Jeffrey Ashe 
 
Tells the story of the worldwide movement to help poor people run microfinance for themselves:

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The Poor and Their Money: Microfinance from a Twenty-First Century Consumer's Perspective (Paperback) 
by Stuart Rutherford, 2000 and 2011
 
 
 Describes how poor people round the world manage their money

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Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor (Hardcover) 
by Hugh Sinclair, 2012
 
 One of two books included in this list that is very critical of microfinance.

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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time (Hardcover) 
by Bob Harris 
 
The story of the best-known attempt to set up a system for ‘peer to peer’ lending.

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More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty (Hardcover) 
by Dean Karlan 2011
 
 
 By an economist with up-to-date methods of how best to evaluate microfinance (and other pro-poor) initiatives.

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Global Financial Development Report 2018: Financial Inclusion (Paperback) 
by World Bank Group, 2018
 

Up-to-date statistics collected by the World bank on how many of the world’s population have access to what kind of financial services.

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Why Doesn't Microfinance Work?: The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism (Paperback) 
by Milford Bateman, 2010
 
 
The second of two books included in this list that are very critical of microfinance.

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover) 
by Abhijit V. Banerjee, 2011
 
 
 An economist looks at the lives of the poor.

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Download Stuart's essay for a better understanding of financial services for the poor can lead to better provision of such services.
The Poor and their Money: an essay about financial services for poor people
Stuart Rutherford, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, 1999