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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 — 207,071 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,049 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,627 ratings — published 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,100 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,293 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,667 ratings — published 2021
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 371,121 ratings — published 1996
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,709 ratings — published 1975
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,602 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 127,091 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 76,721 ratings — published 1969
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,006 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 3.43 — 48,921 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,467 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 392,687 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,051,067 ratings — published 1846
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,144 ratings — published 2021
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.95 — 44,178 ratings — published 2012
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.16 — 209,863 ratings — published 2021
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,458 ratings — published 2018
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,627 ratings — published 2007
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,533 ratings — published 2020
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 3.47 — 55,740 ratings — published 2017
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as prison)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,726 ratings — published
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.28 — 178,545 ratings — published 2025
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 19,230 ratings — published 2021
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 930 ratings — published
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,497 ratings — published 1999
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 960 ratings — published 2014
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 99,780 ratings — published 2023
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,774 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.65 — 84,944 ratings — published 2018
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,836 ratings — published 2020
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,513 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,285 ratings — published 2007
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,127,296 ratings — published 2022
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,530 ratings — published 2021
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,008,272 ratings — published 2010
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,068 ratings — published 2016
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.48 — 67,925 ratings — published 1982
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,926 ratings — published 2012
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,228 ratings — published 2017
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,307 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,337 ratings — published 2010
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 37,314 ratings — published 1862
Savage Lands (Savage Lands, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.08 — 42,267 ratings — published 2020
“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“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
