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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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Tongues of Serpents (Temeraire, #6)
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Darkness at Noon
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Alias Grace
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In the Penal Colony
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The Green Mile
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Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)
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Crime and Punishment
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Fellside
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
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The Stranger
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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Fiend
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Peter Stenson (Goodreads Author)
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A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born (Stainless Steel Rat, #1)
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Woman at Point Zero
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Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License
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Future Home of the Living God
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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Cape Fear
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The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 92,733 ratings
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I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
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Sinan Antoon (Goodreads Author)
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The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
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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
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The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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The Prisoner: Shattered Visage
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Mark Askwith (Author/Illustrator)
3.30 avg rating — 249 ratings
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The Panopticon
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Jenni Fagan (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 5,954 ratings
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Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)
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Lynn Flewelling (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 23,122 ratings
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Daredevil, Vol. 14: The Devil, Inside and Out, Vol. 1
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Ed Brubaker (Writer)
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Eileen
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3.56 avg rating — 125,907 ratings
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The Prisoner: Volume 1
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Hag-Seed
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 39,919 ratings
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The Prisoner: Volume 2
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The Heart Goes Last
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 75,088 ratings
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The Prisoner: Volume 3
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Blood Brothers
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The Man in the Iron Mask (Le vicomte de Bragelonne, #4)
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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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Viewpoint
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Pythias
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The Devil's Asteroid
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Prison of a Billion Years
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The Eel
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A World Is Born
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Purgatory Mount
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God Sees the Truth, but Waits
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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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