Authors who have spent time in jail/prison

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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two 4.34 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
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A Christmas Memory
A Christmas Memory 4.24 avg rating β€” 17,527 ratings
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The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid 4.50 avg rating β€” 139 ratings
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A Proclamation to the Government Officials of the United States of America and to the Government Officials of Canada
A Proclamation to the Government Officials of the United States of America and to the Government Officials of Canada 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader 4.05 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
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The Travels
The Travels 3.58 avg rating β€” 7,904 ratings
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Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue
Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue 3.42 avg rating β€” 16,432 ratings
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Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook
Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook 4.15 avg rating β€” 3,816 ratings
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The Coffin Confessor: Some Last Wishes Don't Go Quietly to the Grave
The Coffin Confessor: Some Last Wishes Don't Go Quietly to the Grave 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,543 ratings
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Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva 4.47 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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This Is It!: The Secret Lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson (1)
This Is It!: The Secret Lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson (1) 2.70 avg rating β€” 100 ratings
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Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community
Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community 4.57 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Daughter of Earth
Daughter of Earth 4.11 avg rating β€” 512 ratings
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories 3.83 avg rating β€” 286,575 ratings
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A Life in Law and Activism: Sudha Bharadwaj Speaks
A Life in Law and Activism: Sudha Bharadwaj Speaks it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Ethics along the Color Line
Ethics along the Color Line 3.50 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,764 ratings
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Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison
Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison 4.31 avg rating β€” 62 ratings
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Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers 4.01 avg rating β€” 6,846 ratings
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In God's Underground
In God's Underground 4.64 avg rating β€” 1,238 ratings
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Varavara Rao: A Life In Poetry
Varavara Rao: A Life In Poetry 4.64 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Bomber grounded, runway closed: Prison letters and court notes of a Gulf War resister
Bomber grounded, runway closed: Prison letters and court notes of a Gulf War resister liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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On the Yard
On the Yard 4.09 avg rating β€” 628 ratings
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Why Do You Fear My Ways So Much: Poems and Letters from Prison
Why Do You Fear My Ways So Much: Poems and Letters from Prison 4.80 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Live from Death Row
Live from Death Row 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,555 ratings
125.
Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,646 ratings
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Soul on Ice
Soul on Ice 3.97 avg rating β€” 14,658 ratings
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Way of the Snow Crane
Way of the Snow Crane 3.67 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion
Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion 3.53 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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Autobiography
Autobiography 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,399 ratings
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Dreams in a Time of War
Dreams in a Time of War 3.92 avg rating β€” 1,716 ratings
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Sukiyaki
Sukiyaki 4.25 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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I Am Not A Silent Spectator
I Am Not A Silent Spectator 4.80 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
134.
The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene
The Science and Fine Art of Natural Hygiene 4.14 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Women, Culture, and Politics
Women, Culture, and Politics 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,647 ratings
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Sleeping with the Enemy
Sleeping with the Enemy 4.47 avg rating β€” 2,624 ratings
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Not Collateral Damage
Not Collateral Damage 3.75 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology
Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology 4.62 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues 4.47 avg rating β€” 824 ratings
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Using Life
Using Life 2.71 avg rating β€” 725 ratings
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Warning to the West
Warning to the West 4.14 avg rating β€” 641 ratings
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From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada 4.58 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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No Beast So Fierce
No Beast So Fierce 4.12 avg rating β€” 2,911 ratings
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Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin
Out of the Night: The Memoir of Richard Julius Herman Krebs alias Jan Valtin 4.45 avg rating β€” 313 ratings
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Living My Life, Vol. 1
Living My Life, Vol. 1 4.35 avg rating β€” 837 ratings
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Chopper
Chopper 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,195 ratings
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Sightline Books)
Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Sightline Books) 4.45 avg rating β€” 801 ratings
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The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (The American Exploration and Travel Series)
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (The American Exploration and Travel Series) 2.76 avg rating β€” 95 ratings
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf 3.17 avg rating β€” 43,176 ratings
148.
Journey Into The Whirlwind
Journey Into The Whirlwind 4.33 avg rating β€” 3,854 ratings
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A Sense of Freedom
A Sense of Freedom 4.13 avg rating β€” 495 ratings
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Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America 4.11 avg rating β€” 691 ratings
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The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,858 ratings
153.
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes 4.25 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
153.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating β€” 254,492 ratings
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Jared, the Subway Guy: Winning Through Losing: 13 Lessons for Turning Your Life Around
Jared, the Subway Guy: Winning Through Losing: 13 Lessons for Turning Your Life Around 3.59 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Surviving an American Gulag
Surviving an American Gulag 4.06 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story
Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story 2.32 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Ìsarà: A Voyage Around Essay
ÌsarΓ : A Voyage Around Essay 3.61 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
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I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! 3.96 avg rating β€” 185 ratings
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Hostage in Peking
Hostage in Peking 3.64 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
159.
The Great Gathering (Standing in Holy Places, 1)
The Great Gathering (Standing in Holy Places, 1) 3.61 avg rating β€” 519 ratings
163.
The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
The Man Died: The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka 3.94 avg rating β€” 434 ratings
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A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun: The Autobiography of a Career Criminal
A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun: The Autobiography of a Career Criminal 4.22 avg rating β€” 223 ratings
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In Prison
In Prison 3.88 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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The Keys of the Kingdom (Standing in Holy Places, 4)
The Keys of the Kingdom (Standing in Holy Places, 4) 3.86 avg rating β€” 214 ratings
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Of Africa
Of Africa 3.89 avg rating β€” 200 ratings
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America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror (Open Media Series)
America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror (Open Media Series) 3.77 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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The Rise of Zion (Standing in Holy Places, 3)
The Rise of Zion (Standing in Holy Places, 3) 3.78 avg rating β€” 272 ratings
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A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)
A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) 3.89 avg rating β€” 7,428 ratings
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My Mind on Trial
My Mind on Trial 4.29 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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The Celestial City (Standing in Holy Places, 2)
The Celestial City (Standing in Holy Places, 2) 3.75 avg rating β€” 363 ratings
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Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,044 ratings
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Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Memoirs from the Women's Prison 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,283 ratings
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The Renewed Earth
The Renewed Earth 3.87 avg rating β€” 171 ratings
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GraceLand
GraceLand 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,660 ratings
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A Freedom Within: The Prison Notes of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
A Freedom Within: The Prison Notes of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski 4.44 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 3.79 avg rating β€” 16,932 ratings
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Evading Babylon (Times of Turmoil Series Book 1)
Evading Babylon (Times of Turmoil Series Book 1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 121 ratings
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Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1)
Bumi Manusia (Tetralogi Buru, #1) 4.43 avg rating β€” 21,804 ratings
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Magadan
Magadan 4.30 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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The Pyramid
The Pyramid 3.32 avg rating β€” 1,057 ratings
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Martial Law
Martial Law 3.91 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
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Memoirs of Madame Roland
Memoirs of Madame Roland 3.66 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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In the First Circle
In the First Circle 4.35 avg rating β€” 1,763 ratings
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Martial Law (Evading Babylon Series Vol. 2) by Chad Daybell (2013) Paperback
Martial Law (Evading Babylon Series Vol. 2) by Chad Daybell (2013) Paperback did not like it 1.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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No Child's Play: In Prison Under Apartheid
No Child's Play: In Prison Under Apartheid 2.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
187.
Matryona's House and Other Stories
Matryona's House and Other Stories 3.89 avg rating β€” 2,636 ratings
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The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro
The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro 3.95 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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Baptism: Entering the Path to Eternal Life
Baptism: Entering the Path to Eternal Life 3.25 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Le carceri russe
Le carceri russe 3.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,410 ratings
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We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels
We Never Make Mistakes: Two Short Novels 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,030 ratings
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One Foot in the Grave: The Strange but True Adventures of a Cemetery Sexton
One Foot in the Grave: The Strange but True Adventures of a Cemetery Sexton 2.90 avg rating β€” 92 ratings
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The Ordeal: My Ten Years in a Malaysian Prison
The Ordeal: My Ten Years in a Malaysian Prison 3.95 avg rating β€” 187 ratings
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Apricot Jam: And Other Stories
Apricot Jam: And Other Stories 3.69 avg rating β€” 585 ratings
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Chasing Paradise
Chasing Paradise 4.09 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
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Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 4.06 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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Through The Eyes Of John: The Beloved Apostle Watches The Savior's Final Days On The Earth
Through The Eyes Of John: The Beloved Apostle Watches The Savior's Final Days On The Earth 3.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The Bust Book: What to Do Until the Lawyer Comes
The Bust Book: What to Do Until the Lawyer Comes 3.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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