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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 — 205,488 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 105 times as prison)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,076 ratings — published 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,111 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,419 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,058 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as prison)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,066 ratings — published 2021
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,329 ratings — published 1975
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 356,940 ratings — published 1996
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,523 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 123,663 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 74,910 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 — 12,644 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 3.44 — 47,433 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,929 ratings — published 2014
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,006,388 ratings — published 1846
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 382,571 ratings — published 2018
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,889 ratings — published 2021
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,350 ratings — published 2020
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,339 ratings — published 2018
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,345 ratings — published 2007
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.17 — 174,702 ratings — published 2021
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 18,402 ratings — published 2021
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.12 — 922 ratings — published
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,663 ratings — published 2019
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,417 ratings — published 1999
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,401 ratings — published
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,275 ratings — published 2014
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.36 — 30,124 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 — 78,304 ratings — published 2018
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 938 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,219 ratings — published 2007
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 4.12 — 86,987 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 — 996,571 ratings — published 2010
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.01 — 962,655 ratings — published 2022
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.84 — 45,826 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,317 ratings — published 2010
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,316 ratings — published 2021
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,401 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 — 4,873 ratings — published 2016
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,783 ratings — published 2012
Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 74,629 ratings — published 1999
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,855 ratings — published 1861
All Chained Up (Devil's Rock, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,246 ratings — published 2016
A Pound of Flesh (A Pound of Flesh, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,343 ratings — published 2015
Slammer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,081 ratings — published 2015
“The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
“The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
