562 books
—
479 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Prison Books
Showing 1-50 of 9,192
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,780 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 110 times as prison)
avg rating 3.70 — 12,933 ratings — published 2014
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,336 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as prison)
avg rating 4.50 — 31,895 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,373 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as prison)
avg rating 3.88 — 18,005 ratings — published 2021
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 378,119 ratings — published 1996
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 38,321 ratings — published 1975
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,654 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,812 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 77,421 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 — 13,178 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as prison)
avg rating 3.43 — 49,502 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,743 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 399,725 ratings — published 2018
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.28 — 216,509 ratings — published 2025
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,718 ratings — published 2021
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 3.47 — 60,221 ratings — published 2017
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as prison)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,079,795 ratings — published 1846
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.16 — 226,208 ratings — published 2021
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.95 — 45,497 ratings — published 2012
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,509 ratings — published 2018
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,599 ratings — published 2020
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,403 ratings — published
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,754 ratings — published 2007
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 19,511 ratings — published 2021
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,533 ratings — published 1999
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 937 ratings — published
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 967 ratings — published 2014
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 105,155 ratings — published 2023
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 39,600 ratings — published 2020
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,822 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 — 87,646 ratings — published 2018
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,622 ratings — published 2014
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,205,090 ratings — published 2022
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,304 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 — 1,016,881 ratings — published 2010
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,126 ratings — published 2021
Savage Lands (Savage Lands, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as prison)
avg rating 4.08 — 43,230 ratings — published 2020
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,988 ratings — published 2012
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,609 ratings — published 2017
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,191 ratings — published 2016
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.47 — 71,141 ratings — published 1982
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,528 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,352 ratings — published 2010
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,473 ratings — published 1862
“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”
― Peace and Happiness
― Peace and Happiness
“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
