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The Green Mile
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4.49 avg rating — 360,660 ratings
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Different Seasons
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4.36 avg rating — 220,459 ratings
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Papillon
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4.23 avg rating — 75,417 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,016,531 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 725,205 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 124,611 ratings
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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4.26 avg rating — 586,465 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 840,501 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,830,290 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,398,423 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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4.33 avg rating — 34,520 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,382,038 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 870,152 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 1,356,490 ratings
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The Animal Factory
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3.92 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 391,569 ratings
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Alias Grace
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4.04 avg rating — 156,150 ratings
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Orange Is the New Black
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3.72 avg rating — 205,826 ratings
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 230,481 ratings
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Sleepers
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4.28 avg rating — 17,108 ratings
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30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor
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4.32 avg rating — 147 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,008,848 ratings
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Shantaram
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4.28 avg rating — 238,244 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 257,503 ratings
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Schindler’s List
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4.34 avg rating — 165,470 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
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4.05 avg rating — 23,214 ratings
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Little Dorrit
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49,765 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,068,362 ratings
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Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
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4.31 avg rating — 30,554 ratings
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Midnight Express
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4.06 avg rating — 4,710 ratings
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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
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4.12 avg rating — 1,898 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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4.14 avg rating — 9,063 ratings
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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3.87 avg rating — 84,151 ratings
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Just Mercy
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4.62 avg rating — 260,201 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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4.45 avg rating — 4,913 ratings
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The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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3.94 avg rating — 10,616 ratings
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
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4.02 avg rating — 22,060 ratings
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Affinity
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3.75 avg rating — 28,583 ratings
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Andersonville
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4.10 avg rating — 8,365 ratings
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Not Without My Daughter
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4.19 avg rating — 38,718 ratings
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The Pickwick Papers
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3.85 avg rating — 32,005 ratings
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Red Dragon
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4.07 avg rating — 371,546 ratings
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
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3.88 avg rating — 176,823 ratings
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Assata: An Autobiography
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4.60 avg rating — 31,001 ratings
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Prison Writings
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4.25 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
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3.56 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison
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3.96 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
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Razor Wire Wilderness
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3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Poison Study (Study, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 175,619 ratings
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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4.65 avg rating — 80,124 ratings
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Bad: The Autobiography of James Carr
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4.07 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
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4.06 avg rating — 24,627 ratings
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail
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4.72 avg rating — 8,680 ratings
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Empire of the Sun
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3.98 avg rating — 22,458 ratings
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The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
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4.13 avg rating — 6,359 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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4.01 avg rating — 71,800 ratings
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 93,868 ratings
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De Profundis
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4.22 avg rating — 25,446 ratings
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Cool Hand Luke
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4.15 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
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Live from Death Row: A Radio Reporter's Impassioned Writings on Injustice, Racism, and Prison Brutalities
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4.24 avg rating — 2,578 ratings
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Spandau: The Secret Diaries
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4.13 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
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Hades' Disciples (The Legacy of the Gods, #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Laughing All the Way to the Bank (Robbery): My Education at Con College
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4.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
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4.13 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 825,051 ratings
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The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir
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3.98 avg rating — 1,409 ratings
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White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief
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4.31 avg rating — 902 ratings
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Fellside
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3.57 avg rating — 14,946 ratings
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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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4.06 avg rating — 17,724 ratings
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
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4.48 avg rating — 62,541 ratings
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Morgan's Run
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4.02 avg rating — 5,897 ratings
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Letters from the Inside
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3.70 avg rating — 5,668 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 993,693 ratings
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Do They Hear You When You Cry
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4.13 avg rating — 4,793 ratings
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The House of the Dead
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4.05 avg rating — 35,478 ratings
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Resurrection
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4.17 avg rating — 28,147 ratings
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Letters and Papers from Prison
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4.30 avg rating — 3,881 ratings
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Prisoner of Tehran
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4.21 avg rating — 14,479 ratings
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Faust, Part One
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3.83 avg rating — 85,721 ratings
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Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
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3.68 avg rating — 175,610 ratings
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Antigone
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3.77 avg rating — 30,027 ratings
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
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3.51 avg rating — 4,320 ratings
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Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #5)
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4.13 avg rating — 33,308 ratings
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The Consolation of Philosophy
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4.05 avg rating — 17,811 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 21,789 ratings
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
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3.99 avg rating — 4,441 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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4.24 avg rating — 36,741 ratings
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Gideon's Trumpet
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3.91 avg rating — 3,085 ratings
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Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #22)
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3.94 avg rating — 46,754 ratings
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Silence
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4.09 avg rating — 38,982 ratings
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On the Yard
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4.07 avg rating — 661 ratings
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The Prisoner of Zenda (The Ruritania Trilogy, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 22,676 ratings
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Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
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4.11 avg rating — 7,834 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 294,135 ratings
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Slammerkin
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3.75 avg rating — 17,297 ratings
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Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the 'Bangkok Hilton'
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3.94 avg rating — 2,662 ratings
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Prisoners, families, dolls and judgements
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lowdown
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4.17 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Green River Rising
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3.93 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
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Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better
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4.47 avg rating — 318 ratings
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