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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 — 205,828 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,245 ratings — published 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,855 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as prison)
avg rating 4.51 — 29,845 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,107 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,667 ratings — published 2021
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,746 ratings — published 1975
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 360,692 ratings — published 1996
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,547 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 124,625 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 75,420 ratings — published 1969
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,753 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 3.44 — 47,807 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,221 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 384,567 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,016,638 ratings — published 1844
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,255 ratings — published 2021
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,422 ratings — published 2020
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,368 ratings — published 2018
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,388 ratings — published 2007
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as prison)
avg rating 4.17 — 184,496 ratings — published 2021
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 924 ratings — published
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 18,601 ratings — published 2021
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,674 ratings — published 2019
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,705 ratings — published
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,441 ratings — published 1999
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,350 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,234 ratings — published 2007
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.35 — 31,959 ratings — published 2020
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.65 — 80,141 ratings — published 2018
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 946 ratings — published 2014
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 90,070 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 — 993,750 ratings — published 2010
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,574 ratings — published 2021
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,984 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,320 ratings — published 2010
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 999,787 ratings — published 2022
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,654 ratings — published 2017
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,913 ratings — published 2016
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,818 ratings — published 2012
Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 74,918 ratings — published 1999
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 35,482 ratings — published 1861
Endangered Species (Time Served, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,788 ratings — published 2020
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 4.25 — 305,210 ratings — published 2019
All Chained Up (Devil's Rock, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,258 ratings — published 2016
“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”
― Orange Is the New Black
― Orange Is the New Black
“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
