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Prison Books
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Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,673 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,478 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,526 ratings — published 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,716 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,234 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,033 ratings — published 2021
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 368,291 ratings — published 1996
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,427 ratings — published 1975
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,583 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 126,358 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 76,360 ratings — published 1969
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,909 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 3.44 — 48,645 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,352 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 389,539 ratings — published 2018
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,857 ratings — published 2021
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.94 — 42,867 ratings — published 2012
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,039,624 ratings — published 1844
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,502 ratings — published 2020
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,434 ratings — published 2018
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,577 ratings — published 2007
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.17 — 202,873 ratings — published 2021
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 3.47 — 53,347 ratings — published 2017
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,393 ratings — published
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 19,065 ratings — published 2021
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 928 ratings — published
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,745 ratings — published 2019
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,474 ratings — published 1999
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 954 ratings — published 2014
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.34 — 35,293 ratings — published 2020
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.65 — 83,546 ratings — published 2018
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,468 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,271 ratings — published 2007
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 97,181 ratings — published 2023
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,004,284 ratings — published 2010
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,094,514 ratings — published 2022
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as prison)
avg rating 4.29 — 159,644 ratings — published 2025
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 34 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,200 ratings — published 2021
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,013 ratings — published 2016
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.48 — 66,504 ratings — published 1982
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,893 ratings — published 2012
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,208 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,329 ratings — published 2010
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,056 ratings — published 2017
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 36,801 ratings — published 1861
Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 75,569 ratings — published 1999
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
