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Prison books

Here are 48 books with a lot of prison, starting with Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail, The Orphan Master's Son and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons.

• Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest JailRusty Young, Thomas McFadden
• The Orphan Master's SonAdam Johnson
• Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different SeasonsStephen King
• The House of the DeadFyodor Dostoyevsky
• SolitaryAlexander Gordon Smith
• AndersonvilleMacKinlay Kantor
• FalconerJohn Cheever
• The Green MileStephen King
• Orange Is the New BlackPiper Kerman
• The LoopBen Oliver
• One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Green Mile, Part 6: Coffey on the MileStephen King
• The Green Mile, Part 5: Night JourneyStephen King
• The Green Mile, Part 3: Coffey's HandsStephen King
• The Green Mile, Part 2Stephen King
• The Green Mile, Part 4Stephen King
• Hard TimeCara McKenna
• The Star RoverJack London
• Kolyma TalesVarlam Shalamov
• Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 4Jinsei Kataoka
• HellJeffrey Archer
• The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok PrisonWarren Fellows
• Ballad of Reading GaolOscar Wilde
• Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 3Jinsei Kataoka
• Hellblazer: Hard TimeBrian Azzarello
• Hide and SeekM.J. Arlidge
• Spark of Life: A Novel of ResistanceErich Maria Remarque
• Soledad BrotherGeorge L. Jackson
• Hotel KerobokanKathryn Bonella
• LockdownAlexander Gordon Smith
• Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary MachineKelly Sue DeConnick
• The EnchantedRene Denfeld
• The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Hag-SeedMargaret Atwood
• Kiss of the Spider WomanManuel Puig
• FellsideM.R. Carey
• This Blinding Absence of LightTahar ben Jelloun
• The Aquariums of PyongyangKang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot
• Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned SistersWally Lamb, Nancy Whiteley
• In the First CircleAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Hole in My LifeJack Gantos
• Death SentenceAlexander Gordon Smith
• In the Sanctuary of OutcastsNeil W. White III
• Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 2Jinsei Kataoka
• The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-IIAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Guantánamo DiaryMohamedou Ould Slahi
• The Lizard CageKaren Connelly
• Deadman Wonderland, Vol. 7Jinsei Kataoka

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