Autobiographical Books about Prisoners

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In the Belly of the Beast
Jack Abbott

Similar Novels 70%

The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Similar Novels 90%

Papillon
Henri Charrière

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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Ted Conover

Similar Novels 84%

The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Similar Novels 82%

Orange is the new black
Piper Kerman

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Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Shaka Senghor

Similar Novels 96%

The Enormous Room
E. E. Cummings

Similar Novels 82%

Conversations with Myself
Nelson Mandela

Similar Novels 70%

De Profundis
Oscar Wilde

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In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
Wilbert Rideau

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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
George Jackson

Similar Novels 87%

If This Is a Man
Primo Levi

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Miracle of the Rose
Jean Genet

Similar Novels 82%

You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish
Jimmy Lerner

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Live from Death Row
Mumia Abu-Jamal

Similar Novels 96%

Memoirs from the women's prison
Nawal El Saadawi

Similar Novels 100%

Redeemable: A Memoir of Darkness and Hope
Erwin James

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson

Similar Novels 98%

Solitary
Albert Woodfox

Similar Novels 94%

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