Women's prison memoirs
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Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System 4.34 avg rating β 2,370 ratings
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
by:
Susan Burton
4.60 avg rating β 1,723 ratings 
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Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran
by:
Roxana Saberi
3.88 avg rating β 1,920 ratings 
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Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
by:
Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
3.96 avg rating β 498 ratings 12. 
117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law
by:
Ruth First
3.95 avg rating β 226 ratings 
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From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
by:
Sudha Bharadwaj
4.58 avg rating β 78 ratings 21. 
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating β 189 ratings 
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Without Hesitation: An Account of an Iraqi Prisoner of Conscience really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
by:
Ira Berlin
4.49 avg rating β 394 ratings 
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The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative
by:
Mary Prince
3.81 avg rating β 3,299 ratings 31. 
Eyes of the Tailless Animals: Prison Memoirs of a North Korean Woman
by:
Soon Ok Lee
3.90 avg rating β 324 ratings 31. 
The Chief Witness: escape from Chinaβs modern-day concentration camps 4.55 avg rating β 883 ratings
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We Lived To Tell: Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women
by:
Azadeh Agah
4.75 avg rating β 8 ratings 34. 
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House 3.86 avg rating β 4,108 ratings
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The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison
by:
Mim Skinner
4.02 avg rating β 1,252 ratings 37. 
An American Radical: A Political Prisoner in My Own Country
by:
Susan Rosenberg
4.08 avg rating β 115 ratings 
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Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women's Prison
by:
Ana Rodriguez
4.34 avg rating β 58 ratings 41. 
Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. Of Denmark: Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen, 1663 1685 liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
by:
Shahla Talebi
4.23 avg rating β 62 ratings 
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Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag
by:
Simeon Vilensky
4.12 avg rating β 60 ratings 
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Memoir of a Gulag Actress (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
by:
Tamara Petkevich
4.60 avg rating β 403 ratings 48. 
Torn Out by the Roots: The Recollections of a Former Communist
by:
Hilda Vitzthum
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 49. 
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My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
by:
Haleh Esfandiari
3.78 avg rating β 581 ratings 53. 
To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage
by:
Anhua Gao
4.38 avg rating β 779 ratings 54. 
The Voice that Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival
by:
Adhe Tapontsang
4.49 avg rating β 134 ratings 55. 
Witnessing History: One Woman's Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong
by:
Jennifer Zeng
3.90 avg rating β 48 ratings 
59. 
I Am First a Human Being: The Prison Letters of Krystyna Wituska
by:
Krystyna Wituska
3.91 avg rating β 23 ratings 
61. 
Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women In Prison
by:
Paula C. Johnson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 27 ratings 62. 
Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again
by:
Teresa Giudice
3.12 avg rating β 3,806 ratings 63. 
I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home
by:
Shoshana Johnson
4.03 avg rating β 631 ratings 
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A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound
by:
Donna Hylton
4.14 avg rating β 338 ratings