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The Green Mile
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4.49 avg rating — 371,474 ratings
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Different Seasons
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4.36 avg rating — 224,007 ratings
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Papillon
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4.23 avg rating — 76,773 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.33 avg rating — 1,052,568 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 743,841 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 127,213 ratings
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 594,932 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 853,885 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 7,008,749 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,495,850 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 35,514 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,463,441 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 885,369 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 1,380,981 ratings
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The Animal Factory
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3.93 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 409,033 ratings
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Alias Grace
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4.04 avg rating — 159,561 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
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3.72 avg rating — 207,110 ratings
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 235,100 ratings
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Sleepers
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4.28 avg rating — 17,443 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,024,177 ratings
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30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor
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4.31 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Shantaram
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4.28 avg rating — 244,178 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.05 avg rating — 263,051 ratings
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Schindler’s List
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4.34 avg rating — 166,751 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
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4.05 avg rating — 23,931 ratings
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Little Dorrit
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 50,231 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,119,325 ratings
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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
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4.31 avg rating — 31,650 ratings
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Midnight Express
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4.07 avg rating — 4,830 ratings
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
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4.12 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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4.15 avg rating — 9,255 ratings
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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3.87 avg rating — 86,024 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 267,754 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 5,077 ratings
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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3.93 avg rating — 10,862 ratings
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
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4.02 avg rating — 23,198 ratings
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Affinity
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3.75 avg rating — 29,042 ratings
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Andersonville
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4.10 avg rating — 8,455 ratings
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Not Without My Daughter
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4.19 avg rating — 39,803 ratings
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The Pickwick Papers
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3.85 avg rating — 32,652 ratings
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Red Dragon
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4.07 avg rating — 379,079 ratings
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
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3.88 avg rating — 182,196 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
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4.60 avg rating — 32,595 ratings
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Prison Writings
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4.25 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
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3.56 avg rating — 1,289 ratings
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
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3.96 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
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Razor Wire Wilderness
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3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Poison Study (Study, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 177,669 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.65 avg rating — 85,107 ratings
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Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr
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4.06 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
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4.06 avg rating — 24,824 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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4.72 avg rating — 9,016 ratings
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Empire of the Sun
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3.98 avg rating — 22,980 ratings
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The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
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4.13 avg rating — 6,521 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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4.01 avg rating — 72,900 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 95,621 ratings
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De Profundis
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4.22 avg rating — 26,573 ratings
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Cool Hand Luke
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4.15 avg rating — 1,664 ratings
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Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities
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4.24 avg rating — 2,584 ratings
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Spandau: The Secret Diaries
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4.12 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
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Hades' Disciples (The Legacy of the Gods, #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College
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4.33 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
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4.14 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 830,516 ratings
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The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir
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3.98 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
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4.31 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Fellside
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3.57 avg rating — 15,077 ratings
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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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4.06 avg rating — 17,881 ratings
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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4.47 avg rating — 68,094 ratings
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Morgan's Run
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4.02 avg rating — 5,991 ratings
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Letters from the Inside
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3.70 avg rating — 5,710 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,008,820 ratings
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
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4.13 avg rating — 4,827 ratings
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The House of the Dead
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4.05 avg rating — 37,360 ratings
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Resurrection
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4.17 avg rating — 29,212 ratings
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Letters and Papers from Prison
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4.30 avg rating — 3,945 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran
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4.22 avg rating — 14,810 ratings
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Faust, Part One
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3.83 avg rating — 87,352 ratings
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Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
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3.69 avg rating — 180,798 ratings
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Antigone
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3.77 avg rating — 30,957 ratings
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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3.52 avg rating — 4,339 ratings
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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
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4.13 avg rating — 34,029 ratings
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The Consolation of Philosophy
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4.05 avg rating — 18,490 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 22,277 ratings
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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3.99 avg rating — 4,498 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 37,734 ratings
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Gideon's Trumpet
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3.91 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #21)
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3.94 avg rating — 48,676 ratings
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Silence
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4.10 avg rating — 40,472 ratings
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On the Yard
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4.07 avg rating — 671 ratings
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The Prisoner of Zenda (The Ruritania Trilogy, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 22,922 ratings
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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
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4.11 avg rating — 7,934 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 300,094 ratings
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Slammerkin
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3.76 avg rating — 17,439 ratings
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Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the 'Bangkok Hilton'
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3.94 avg rating — 2,702 ratings
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Prisoners, families, dolls and judgements
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lowdown
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4.17 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Redemption Row
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4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Green River Rising
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3.94 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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