2021 Reading Women Challenge - hosted by thereadingwomen

A Book About Incarceration
  • Read a fiction or nonfiction book about any kind of incarceration set anywhere around the world.

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White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

White Chrysanthemum

Mary Lynn Bracht

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional sad fast-paced
Água de barrela by Eliana Alves Cruz

Água de barrela

Eliana Alves Cruz

322 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction literary race informative mysterious tense medium-paced
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Christine Montross

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

Christine Montross

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction psychology sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

asha bandele, Patrisse Khan-Cullors

272 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction memoir race challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Man Who Snapped His Fingers by Fariba Hachtroudi

The Man Who Snapped His Fingers

Fariba Hachtroudi

144 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction reflective slow-paced
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers

256 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction horror literary thriller dark funny medium-paced
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

The Labyrinth

Amanda Lohrey

256 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Sexe et mensonges: La vie sexuelle au Maroc by Leïla Slimani

Sexe et mensonges: La vie sexuelle au Maroc

Leïla Slimani

192 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Orange Is the New Black: My Year In a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman

Orange Is the New Black: My Year In a Women's Prison

Piper Kerman

298 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman

188 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction dark mysterious reflective medium-paced