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Prison Lit Books
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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,160 ratings — published 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.51 — 31,064 ratings — published 2003
On the Yard (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 668 ratings — published 1967
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,956 ratings — published 1970
The House of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 37,230 ratings — published 1862
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.23 — 37,664 ratings — published 1975
Felon: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,939 ratings — published 2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.65 — 84,730 ratings — published 2018
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,986 ratings — published 2018
If Beale Street Could Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,702 ratings — published 1974
She Rides Shotgun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,136 ratings — published 2017
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,493 ratings — published 1999
Orange Is the New Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.72 — 207,010 ratings — published 2010
The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 453 ratings — published 1972
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,284 ratings — published 2007
The Renovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 283 ratings — published
The Man Who Came Uptown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,093 ratings — published 2018
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,319 ratings — published 2016
On Earth as it is Beneath (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,974 ratings — published 2017
The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,008 ratings — published 2025
Her Side of the Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,661 ratings — published 1949
The Trinity of Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.54 — 871 ratings — published
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 399,931 ratings — published 1880
The Association of Small Bombs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.57 — 14,680 ratings — published 2016
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,324 ratings — published 2022
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.60 — 1,441 ratings — published 2018
Against the Loveless World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.50 — 32,476 ratings — published 2019
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.05 — 234 ratings — published
Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.04 — 481 ratings — published 2005
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,116,632 ratings — published 1866
Daredevil by Brubaker & Lark: Ultimate Collection, Book 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.35 — 979 ratings — published 2012
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.56 — 133,348 ratings — published 2015
Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 554 ratings — published 2023
Planet of the Apes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,827 ratings — published 1963
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 742,515 ratings — published 1966
القوقعة: يوميات متلصص (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,845 ratings — published 2007
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,049,522 ratings — published 1846
Holes (Holes, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,379,205 ratings — published 1998
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.47 — 67,731 ratings — published 1982
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,972 ratings — published 1992
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.49 — 370,711 ratings — published 1996
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 441 ratings — published 2023
Da Brickz: Life in the Game (W8 Movaz Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Redemption Road (Mark Toren Thriller Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published
Déjà Vu: The Domino Effect (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published
Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.37 — 178 ratings — published 1979
Breathe into the Ground: 2020 Prison Writing Awards Anthology (Prison Writing Anthology)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.67 — 12 ratings — published
Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.07 — 73 ratings — published
When You Read This They Will Have Killed Me: The Life and Redemption of Caryl Chessman, Whose Execution Shook America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 19 ratings — published 2006
Borstal Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as prison-lit)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,120 ratings — published 1958
