Voices from Prison (33 books)

Books about life in prison, by men and women currently or previously incarcerated.

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1	Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 206,077 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 4.33 avg rating — 34,754 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community by Rosalie G. Riegle (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree: Stories from Ixcotel State Prison by Mary Ellen Sanger (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 86 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Heaven (A Prison Diary, #3) by Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 3,159 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Abschiedsbriefe Gefängnis Tegel. September 1944-Januar 1945. Gekürzte Ausgabe by Freya von Moltke 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Prison post: Letters of support for Peter Greste by Editia 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Prisoners by Ace Boggess (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The General: The Ordinary Man Who Challenged Guantanamo by Ahmed Errachidi 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton 4.65 avg rating — 81,312 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?: Voices of Indian Political Prisoners by Suchitra Vijayan (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 37 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter by David T. Dellinger 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin by Jan Valtin 4.47 avg rating — 322 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Purgatory (A Prison Diary, #2) by Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 3,464 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison by T.J. Parsell 3.96 avg rating — 1,992 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Graybar Hotel: Stories by Curtis Dawkins 3.63 avg rating — 1,078 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	After Auschwitz by Eva Schloss 4.32 avg rating — 7,692 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Innocent Prisoners by Abdul Wahid Shaikh 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison by Kathy Kelly 4.31 avg rating — 62 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Prison Baby: A Memoir by Deborah Jiang-Stein (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 670 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Hell (A Prison Diary, #1) by Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 6,587 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani 3.90 avg rating — 9,071 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan 4.01 avg rating — 3,081 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison by Deborah Jiang-Stein (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 71 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Captive Imagination: Letters from Prison by Varavara Rao 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities by Mumia Abu-Jamal 4.24 avg rating — 2,575 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir by Arun Ferreira 4.31 avg rating — 165 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Papillon by Henri Charrière 4.23 avg rating — 75,772 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg (Goodreads Author) 3.52 avg rating — 4,324 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada by Sudha Bharadwaj 4.55 avg rating — 85 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Bomber grounded, runway closed: Prison letters and court notes of a Gulf War resister by Ciaron O'Reilly liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 14,529 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Cell and the Soul: A Prison Memoir by Anand Teltumbde 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars