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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 — 205,536 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 106 times as prison)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,098 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 — 116,210 ratings — published 2010
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,484 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,069 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as prison)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,177 ratings — published 2021
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,379 ratings — published 1975
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 357,639 ratings — published 1996
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,529 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 123,824 ratings — published 1962
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 75,027 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 — 12,664 ratings — published 2018
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 3.44 — 47,506 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 258,283 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 382,969 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,008,164 ratings — published 1846
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,961 ratings — published 2021
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,363 ratings — published 2020
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,343 ratings — published 2018
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,337 ratings — published 2007
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.17 — 176,519 ratings — published 2021
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 18,429 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 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,666 ratings — published 2019
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,457 ratings — published
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,420 ratings — published 1999
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,287 ratings — published 2014
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.36 — 30,487 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 — 78,657 ratings — published 2018
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 3.81 — 940 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,222 ratings — published 2007
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as prison)
avg rating 4.12 — 87,483 ratings — published 2023
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as prison)
avg rating 4.39 — 996,719 ratings — published 2010
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.01 — 969,866 ratings — published 2022
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,353 ratings — published 2021
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 45,847 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,318 ratings — published 2010
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,447 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 — 4,878 ratings — published 2016
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,787 ratings — published 2012
Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 74,672 ratings — published 1999
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 34,955 ratings — published 1861
All Chained Up (Devil's Rock, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,249 ratings — published 2016
A Pound of Flesh (A Pound of Flesh, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,347 ratings — published 2015
Slammer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 28 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,081 ratings — published 2015
“Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
“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
















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