Prison


Orange Is the New Black
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Hold (Hold, #1)
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
Protection
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Green Mile
Hard Time
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Papillon
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
The Mars Room
Bhutan Travelog Edition 2 by Joni HerisonLamb by Christopher MooreQueen of Scots by John GuyHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshFuriously Happy by Jenny  Lawson
Subtitle
542 books — 38 voters

Texas Gulag by Gary    BrownThe Broad Arrow  by Oliné KeeseDry guillotine  by René BelbenoitAmong the Broad-Arrow Men; a plain account of English prison ... by B.2.15Prison paintings by Michael Quanne
Funtime
197 books — 3 voters
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp SendkerAlexander's Infinity by Lidija StankovikjThe Piano Tuner by Daniel       MasonSaving Fish from Drowning by Amy TanThe Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover
Fictitious Burma
32 books — 16 voters


Carlos Ruiz Zafón
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words. ...more
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

G.I. Gurdjieff
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape. ...more
G.I. Gurdjieff

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