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Incarceration Books
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,394 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,302 ratings — published 2003
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.62 — 268,587 ratings — published 2014
Milo Imagines the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,520 ratings — published 2021
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.93 — 394,469 ratings — published 2018
Visiting Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,093 ratings — published 2001
From the Desk of Zoe Washington (Zoe Washington #1)
by (shelved 23 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,782 ratings — published 2020
My Brother Is Away (Library Binding)
by (shelved 21 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 458 ratings — published 2022
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,069 ratings — published 2018
Punching the Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 24,289 ratings — published 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,854 ratings — published 1975
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,099 ratings — published 2016
Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,036 ratings — published 2013
Missing Daddy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 280 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.65 — 85,710 ratings — published 2018
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,251 ratings — published 2010
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 140,414 ratings — published 2023
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,604 ratings — published 2017
Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family when a Loved One is Incarcerated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.17 — 262 ratings — published 2017
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 318,507 ratings — published 2019
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,083 ratings — published 2018
Somebody's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.02 — 74,763 ratings — published 2021
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.11 — 101,218 ratings — published 2023
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,889 ratings — published 2022
Fighting Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.63 — 14,227 ratings — published 2020
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,172 ratings — published 2019
See You Soon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.38 — 149 ratings — published
Dad Bakes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 503 ratings — published 2021
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,081 ratings — published 2019
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,182 ratings — published 2020
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,449 ratings — published 2018
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,289 ratings — published 2007
Harbor Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,617 ratings — published 2018
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,635 ratings — published 1965
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.46 — 233 ratings — published 2020
Felon: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,954 ratings — published 2019
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 418,766 ratings — published 2016
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,151 ratings — published 2011
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,340 ratings — published 2016
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.25 — 857 ratings — published 2015
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,965 ratings — published 1970
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as incarceration)
avg rating 3.98 — 127,539 ratings — published 1962
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.21 — 109,970 ratings — published 2024
Place Hand Here (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.27 — 134 ratings — published
All My Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.47 — 66,968 ratings — published 2022
Born Behind Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,591 ratings — published 2021
Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,601 ratings — published 2020
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.26 — 86,739 ratings — published 1974
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.49 — 25,955 ratings — published 2018
The 57 Bus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as incarceration)
avg rating 4.09 — 45,081 ratings — published 2017
“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.”
― Resurrection
― Resurrection
“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep them locked up and locked out says far more about ourselves than it does about them.”
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
― The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
