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Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 208,192 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 111 times as prison)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,047 ratings — published 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,825 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as prison)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,231 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 98 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,418 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as prison)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,527 ratings — published 2021
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 381,345 ratings — published 1996
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,668 ratings — published 1975
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,675 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,539 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 77,871 ratings — published 1969
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,239 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as prison)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,723 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,599 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 403,767 ratings — published 2018
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as prison)
avg rating 3.46 — 61,658 ratings — published 2017
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.27 — 231,924 ratings — published 2025
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,913 ratings — published 2021
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.16 — 231,710 ratings — published 2021
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,889 ratings — published 2012
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,091,853 ratings — published 1846
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,618 ratings — published 2020
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,526 ratings — published 2018
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,676 ratings — published
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 19,594 ratings — published 2021
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,847 ratings — published 2007
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,545 ratings — published 1999
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 107,450 ratings — published 2023
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 940 ratings — published
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 967 ratings — published 2014
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,544 ratings — published 2020
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,832 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 4.65 — 89,053 ratings — published 2018
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,233,841 ratings — published 2022
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 13,676 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,314 ratings — published 2007
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,021,105 ratings — published 2010
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,359 ratings — published 2021
Savage Lands (Savage Lands, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as prison)
avg rating 4.08 — 43,561 ratings — published 2020
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,017 ratings — published 2012
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,740 ratings — published 2017
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.47 — 72,446 ratings — published 1982
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,248 ratings — published 2016
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,609 ratings — published 2004
Endangered Species (Time Served, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,104 ratings — published 2020
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,361 ratings — published 2010
“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
