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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 — 207,075 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,051 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,628 ratings — published 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,100 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,293 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,670 ratings — published 2021
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 371,133 ratings — published 1996
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,709 ratings — published 1975
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,602 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 127,092 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 76,724 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 — 13,006 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 3.43 — 48,922 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,478 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 392,697 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,051,110 ratings — published 1846
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,144 ratings — published 2021
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.95 — 44,181 ratings — published 2012
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.16 — 209,887 ratings — published 2021
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,458 ratings — published 2018
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,627 ratings — published 2007
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,533 ratings — published 2020
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 3.47 — 55,747 ratings — published 2017
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as prison)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,728 ratings — published
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.28 — 178,603 ratings — published 2025
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 19,230 ratings — published 2021
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 930 ratings — published
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,497 ratings — published 1999
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 960 ratings — published 2014
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 99,784 ratings — published 2023
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,774 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.65 — 84,950 ratings — published 2018
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,841 ratings — published 2020
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,514 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,285 ratings — published 2007
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,127,385 ratings — published 2022
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,533 ratings — published 2021
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,008,284 ratings — published 2010
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,069 ratings — published 2016
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.48 — 67,927 ratings — published 1982
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,926 ratings — published 2012
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,228 ratings — published 2017
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,307 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,337 ratings — published 2010
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 37,315 ratings — published 1862
Savage Lands (Savage Lands, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.08 — 42,271 ratings — published 2020
“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
― The Blue Octavo Notebooks
