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Locked up - Books set in fictional prisons
Stories in which characters spend time in prisons, whether or not they did anything wrong - fiction only please. A seperate list will deal with real life prison tales
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,341,767 ratings
score: 689,
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 999,847 ratings
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 58,671 ratings
score: 676,
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Little Dorrit
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score: 388,
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 123,039 ratings
score: 380,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 861,540 ratings
score: 378,
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,000,475 ratings
score: 276,
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Darkness at Noon
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4.12 avg rating — 33,100 ratings
score: 197,
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Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 154,250 ratings
score: 197,
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2 people voted
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In the Penal Colony
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3.93 avg rating — 31,530 ratings
score: 196,
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The Green Mile
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 354,275 ratings
score: 195,
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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
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4.34 avg rating — 230,714 ratings
score: 194,
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 644,035 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,038,157 ratings
score: 193,
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Fellside
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 14,839 ratings
score: 193,
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,336,045 ratings
score: 192,
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,688,434 ratings
score: 185,
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Fiend
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Peter Stenson (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 3,893 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born (Stainless Steel Rat, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 9,081 ratings
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Woman at Point Zero
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4.22 avg rating — 27,816 ratings
score: 100,
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Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License
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3.92 avg rating — 1,530 ratings
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1 person voted
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 833,910 ratings
score: 99,
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Future Home of the Living God
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3.60 avg rating — 28,891 ratings
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 29,318 ratings
score: 99,
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Cape Fear
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4.04 avg rating — 14,663 ratings
score: 98,
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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 92,313 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
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Sinan Antoon (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
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3.79 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
score: 98,
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The Prisoner Jack Kirby Gil Kane Art Edition
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Gil Kane (Illustrator)
4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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score: 97,
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The Prisoner: Shattered Visage
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Mark Askwith (Author/Illustrator)
3.30 avg rating — 249 ratings
score: 96,
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Tongues of Serpents (Temeraire, #6)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 23,426 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Panopticon
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Jenni Fagan (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 5,922 ratings
score: 95,
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Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)
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Lynn Flewelling (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 23,046 ratings
score: 95,
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Daredevil, Vol. 14: The Devil, Inside and Out, Vol. 1
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Ed Brubaker (Writer)
4.27 avg rating — 1,817 ratings
score: 95,
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Eileen
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3.56 avg rating — 124,464 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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The Prisoner: Volume 1
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4.33 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Hag-Seed
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 39,689 ratings
score: 93,
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The Prisoner: Volume 2
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4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Heart Goes Last
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 74,732 ratings
score: 92,
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The Prisoner: Volume 3
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4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Blood Brothers
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3.80 avg rating — 6,884 ratings
score: 91,
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The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne, #4)
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3.99 avg rating — 66,713 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The Mightiest Man
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2.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Man Who Hated Mars
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3.32 avg rating — 63 ratings
score: 86,
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Viewpoint
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2.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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1 person voted
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Pythias
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3.43 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Devil's Asteroid
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3.33 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Prison of a Billion Years
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3.34 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Eel
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3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A World Is Born
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3.16 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Purgatory Mount
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3.44 avg rating — 452 ratings
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God Sees the Truth, but Waits
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3.89 avg rating — 2,375 ratings
score: 78,
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53 books ·
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list created January 17th, 2020
by Arthur Chappell (votes) .
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"Crime and Punishment" is listed twice.
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P.J. wrote: ""Crime and Punishment" is listed twice."I removed duplicates, so it should listed only once now.
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