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The Wire Books
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 20,670 ratings — published 1991
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 6,956 ratings — published 1997
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 1,058 ratings — published 2007
The Wire: A Dramatic Series for HBO (PDF)
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avg rating 4.59 — 27 ratings — published
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 3,655 ratings — published 2022
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 20,042 ratings — published 2015
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,110 ratings — published 2010
Drama City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,856 ratings — published 2005
King Suckerman (D.C. Quartet, #2)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,594 ratings — published 1997
The Sweet Forever (D.C. Quartet #3)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,593 ratings — published 1998
All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,465 ratings — published 2018
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,699 ratings — published 2006
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,030 ratings — published 1991
Clockers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 13,402 ratings — published 1992
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,567 ratings — published 2013
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
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avg rating 3.76 — 25,845 ratings — published 2010
Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)
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avg rating 4.09 — 24,487 ratings — published 1999
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
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avg rating 4.16 — 43,243 ratings — published 1998
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 47,309 ratings — published 1994
The Wire: Truth Be Told (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,353 ratings — published 2004
Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3)
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avg rating 3.96 — 24,373 ratings — published 1997
Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
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avg rating 4.18 — 33,674 ratings — published 1996
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 559 ratings — published 2025
The Wire: The Complete Visual History (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,063 ratings — published 2013
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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avg rating 4.46 — 2,225 ratings — published 2025
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 586 ratings — published 1989
Power, Racism and Privilege: Race Relations in Theoretical and Sociohistorical Perspectives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1976
The Tyranny of Metrics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,834 ratings — published 2017
When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 721 ratings — published 1996
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 575 ratings — published 1977
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 508 ratings — published 1987
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,510 ratings — published 2003
Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
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avg rating 3.72 — 36 ratings — published 1997
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,195 ratings — published 1998
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 253 ratings — published 2001
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 276 ratings — published 2004
Who Speaks for You?: The Inside Story of the Prosecutor Who Took Down Baltimore's Most Crooked Cops (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 38 ratings — published
The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy (In Vivo)
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avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published 2013
Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence Beyond the Law (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 2000
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 201 ratings — published 1996
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,682 ratings — published 1995
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 5,902 ratings — published 1974
French Connection: A True Account Of Cops, Narcotics, And International Conspiracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 686 ratings — published 1969
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 741 ratings — published 1972
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,235 ratings — published 2021
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,491 ratings — published 2019
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 430 ratings — published 2018
The Baltimore Book of the Dead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 523 ratings — published 2018
Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 646 ratings — published 2011
“Ain't no shame in holding on to grief. As long as you make room for other things, too.”
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“Lance Reddick: I was alone with David, and we just got to talking. I asked him something. I remember him saying organizations can't be reformed, but people can. I rememeber being struck by it when he said it, because I knew that I had never thought of it that way, and I knew that there was something profound in the insight. Then, over time, particularly when I watched the show, I realized how we see both on the criminal side and on the police side, you see people struggling to live up to the codes of the institutions that they're a part of and seeing how it chips away at their humanity.”
― All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire
― All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire
