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  • George Fisher The most profound books on the history of the penitentiary and of its hopes and disappointments Book cover of The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons. By John Howard, F.R.S Book cover of A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 Book cover of The Fabrication of Virtue: English Prison Architecture, 1750-1840 Book cover of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Book cover of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941
  • Ashley Rubin The best books on the origins of American prisons Book cover of Laboratories of Virtue: Punishment, Revolution, and Authority in Philadelphia, 1760-1835 Book cover of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 Book cover of Worse Than Slavery Book cover of Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control Book cover of Breaking the Pendulum: The Long Struggle Over Criminal Justice
  • James Kilgore The best books about mass incarceration Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Book cover of Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons Book cover of Solitary Book cover of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Book cover of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
  • Seán McConville The best prison books based experience and truth rather than invention and sensationalism Book cover of The Joint Book cover of Men In Prison Book cover of Life Book cover of Out of Time: Irish Republican Prisoners Long Kesh 1972-2000 Book cover of The Future of Imprisonment
  • Dorsey Nunn The best books about the strength it takes to be Black in America Book cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book cover of Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair Book cover of Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women Book cover of The Wretched of the Earth Book cover of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • Mneesha Gellman The best books on college in US prisons Book cover of College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration Book cover of American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment Book cover of Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison: Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall Book cover of Higher Education Accessibility Behind and Beyond Prison Walls Book cover of We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
  • Nora Raleigh Baskin The best books with stories for and about children of incarcerated parents Book cover of Knock Knock: My Dad's Dream for Me Book cover of My Brother Is Away Book cover of All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook Book cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
  • Skip Press The best books about finding justice Book cover of 633 Days Inside: Lessons On Life and Leadership Book cover of Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent Book cover of The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose Book cover of To Kill a Mockingbird Book cover of Amnesia
  • George Bearfield The best books describing real, epic journeys of survival Book cover of Papillon Book cover of The Forgotten Soldier Book cover of Master of Spies: The Memoirs of General Frantisek Moravec Book cover of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Book cover of The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom
  • Nicholas Hudson The best books that show why the Enlightenment is the beginning of the modern world Book cover of The Lunar Men: A Story of Science, Art, Invention and Passion Book cover of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Book cover of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Book cover of Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 Book cover of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction
  • Wayne Johnson The best books to explore hidden sides of life, while being entertained, amused, and horrified Book cover of Bookworm Book cover of The Witch of Matonge Book cover of Goat Mountain Book cover of Hotel Iris Book cover of Eileen
  • Benjamin Buchholz The best novels with devilishly unreliable narrators Book cover of Fight Club Book cover of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Book cover of Papillon Book cover of The Night Manager Book cover of A Clockwork Orange
  • Robert Pinsky The best books that were composed by ear Book cover of Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems Book cover of The Bean Eaters; Book cover of Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper Book cover of The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book cover of The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief
  • John Copenhaver The best crime novels for fans of slow burn psychological suspense Book cover of The Talented Mr. Ripley Book cover of The Paying Guests Book cover of A Beautiful Crime Book cover of Carved in Bone Book cover of Eileen
  • Nick Allen Brown The best books that draw you into another world Book cover of Sphere Book cover of The Green Mile Book cover of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Book cover of CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties Book cover of The Andromeda Strain
  • Robert Uttaro The best books about sexual violence, hope, and healing Book cover of After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back Book cover of Resurrection After Rape: A Guide to Transforming from Victim to Survivor Book cover of Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man's Prison Book cover of I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced: A Memoir Book cover of Raped Black Male: A Memoir
  • Virginia Reeves The best books about imprisonment (both literal and figurative) Book cover of The Executioner's Song Book cover of Then the Fish Swallowed Him Book cover of Jack Book cover of Katalin Street Book cover of Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire
  • Simon Baron-Cohen The best books that explore the human mind Book cover of Gratitude Book cover of Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Book cover of The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Book cover of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Book cover of The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Vengeful Age
  • David Jackson Ambrose The best books about people trying to keep their shit together Book cover of Assembly Book cover of Monster Book cover of The Death of Sweet Mister Book cover of Orgy at the STD Clinic Book cover of Everything Here Is Beautiful
  • Vanessa Cuti The best books with a divisive/polarizing main character Book cover of Eileen Book cover of The New Me Book cover of Love Me Back Book cover of I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness Book cover of Animal
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