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Prison Books
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Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 206,222 ratings — published 2010
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as prison)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,655 ratings — published 2010
Straight Boy (Straight Guys, #0)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,417 ratings — published 2014
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as prison)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,359 ratings — published 2003
Freshman (Behind Bars, #1)
by (shelved 97 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,181 ratings — published 2018
Distorted (Alabaster Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,326 ratings — published 2021
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as prison)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,122 ratings — published 1975
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as prison)
avg rating 4.49 — 365,067 ratings — published 1996
Hard Time (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as prison)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,564 ratings — published 2014
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as prison)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,624 ratings — published 1962
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,840 ratings — published 2018
Papillon (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 75,961 ratings — published 1969
The Mars Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as prison)
avg rating 3.44 — 48,199 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as prison)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,028 ratings — published 2014
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 386,528 ratings — published 2018
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as prison)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,029,318 ratings — published 1844
Locked Up Liars (Saint View Prison, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as prison)
avg rating 4.15 — 17,572 ratings — published 2021
Blindly Indicted (Blindly #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,477 ratings — published 2020
Guardian (Prison Planet, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,403 ratings — published 2018
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as prison)
avg rating 3.65 — 62,476 ratings — published 2007
The Prison Healer (The Prison Healer, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as prison)
avg rating 4.17 — 195,219 ratings — published 2021
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as prison)
avg rating 3.48 — 50,281 ratings — published 2017
Alpha Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 3.26 — 18,831 ratings — published 2021
The Fence And Then The Trees (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 927 ratings — published
Psychopath (Behind Bars #2)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,713 ratings — published 2019
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as prison)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,456 ratings — published 1999
Brainwashed (Alabaster Penitentiary, #3)
by (shelved 39 times as prison)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,002 ratings — published
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.65 — 82,016 ratings — published 2018
UnPrison (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.80 — 951 ratings — published 2014
Prisoner (Criminals & Captives, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 3.91 — 13,419 ratings — published 2014
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as prison)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,250 ratings — published 2007
Caged Wolf (Darkmore Penitentiary, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as prison)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,742 ratings — published 2020
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 93,786 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 — 1,000,311 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 — 4,959 ratings — published 2016
The Inmate (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,057,986 ratings — published 2022
Joyless (Alabaster Penitentiary #2)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,848 ratings — published 2021
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Tales from Alcatraz, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.85 — 46,118 ratings — published 2004
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as prison)
avg rating 3.52 — 4,325 ratings — published 2010
Prison Planet Barbarian (Risdaverse, #0.25)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,875 ratings — published 2017
Brute (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as prison)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,852 ratings — published 2012
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.31 — 137,082 ratings — published 2025
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 4.48 — 64,917 ratings — published 1982
Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as prison)
avg rating 3.73 — 75,269 ratings — published 1999
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as prison)
avg rating 4.05 — 36,269 ratings — published 1861
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as prison)
avg rating 4.25 — 309,953 ratings — published 2019
“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“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
