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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 — 207,453 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 — 119,735 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,746 ratings — published 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as prison)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,501 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,332 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as prison)
avg rating 3.89 — 17,334 ratings — published 2021
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 374,407 ratings — published 1996
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,004 ratings — published 1975
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,619 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 127,903 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 76,939 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 — 13,102 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,240 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 269,535 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 396,062 ratings — published 2018
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,441 ratings — published 2021
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 3.47 — 58,142 ratings — published 2017
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,064,688 ratings — published 1846
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.16 — 217,958 ratings — published 2021
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.95 — 45,041 ratings — published 2012
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,486 ratings — published 2018
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.28 — 198,642 ratings — published 2025
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,722 ratings — published 2007
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,565 ratings — published 2020
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 42 times as prison)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,062 ratings — published
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 19,390 ratings — published 2021
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 935 ratings — published
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,518 ratings — published 1999
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 963 ratings — published 2014
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 102,501 ratings — published 2023
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 38,322 ratings — published 2020
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,795 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 — 86,330 ratings — published 2018
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,562 ratings — published 2014
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,165,688 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,295 ratings — published 2007
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,012,665 ratings — published 2010
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,817 ratings — published 2021
Savage Lands (Savage Lands, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.08 — 42,799 ratings — published 2020
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,957 ratings — published 2012
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,417 ratings — published 2017
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,126 ratings — published 2016
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.47 — 69,580 ratings — published 1982
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,429 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,345 ratings — published 2010
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 37,832 ratings — published 1862
“We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it.”
― In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
― In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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