4.12 avg rating — 8,553 ratings

"Growing up poor in Alaska, Jewel would often count on stealing mostly out of her immediate needs in the hand-to-mouth life until one day when it dawned on her that stealing was actually reducing her own value to the price of the tag attached to the dress she tried on plotting to steal: $39.99."

3.64 avg rating — 76,418 ratings

"The author started out her young adult life aspiring to build a career out of her skills as a sophisticated shoplifter. "

3.35 avg rating — 2,595 ratings

"The story centers around the protagonist's 'personal discount' she created to even out her otherwise uninspiring life as a copy writer by resorting to am utmost petty act of stealing a magazine but repeatedly from a same convenience store where she frequented. "

3.13 avg rating — 4,348 ratings

"The author was a semi career shoplifter at this point and the account was about his small time stint in jail for his arrest after returning to the site where he had already been busted once-- NYU campus store--to steal a pair of ear phone."

3.77 avg rating — 37,481 ratings

"The author in her still teen days stole a checkbook that belonged to a restaurant she was working for and went on a spree until one day her splurging naturally got caught. "

3.88 avg rating — 448 ratings

"There is a picaresque touch in the description of the author trying to get her client in the strip joint she was working so drunk that she could take his money that would help her pay the upcoming rent. And she would succeed. "

3.93 avg rating — 5,299 ratings

"Classic"

3.88 avg rating — 6,898 ratings

"The author spent a night in jail for felony by entirely impulsive shoplifting of a jeweled accessory. "

3.48 avg rating — 14,028 ratings

"The narrator/protagonist's brother engages in an act of petty theft--candy bars-- from his workplace: a nearby convenience store. This was edgy given his job option was extremely limited and could not afford to lose his job.
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4.21 avg rating — 842,745 ratings

"Jean Varjean's last crime was not only waived but also even encouraged by the addition of a set of silverware given by the generosity of the enabler bishop. "

3.32 avg rating — 7,807 ratings

"One of the few friends the narrator/protagonist befriended with in her synagogue study group was stealing vigorously from the temple and invited her to join. "

3.41 avg rating — 2,812 ratings

"The author went to jail after her successful years of a skilled shoplifter who got away with all the expensive merchandises, of which she noted Lauph Lauren cashmere sweater worth more than a thousand dollars that she washed it in a regular washer. "

3.63 avg rating — 4,106 ratings

"The author soul searched by questioning her a habit of collecting duffel bags from the big chain bookstores that she never paid for. "

4.26 avg rating — 13,711 ratings

"Out of sheer poverty initially, Caesar as a teen relies mostly on shoplifting to put food on the table before he progresses into something bigger."

3.44 avg rating — 13,959 ratings

4.39 avg rating — 2,872,421 ratings

3.66 avg rating — 21,895 ratings

4.25 avg rating — 38,527 ratings

3.24 avg rating — 1,107 ratings

4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings