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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A Wish in the Dark by Christina Soontornvat

A Wish in the Dark

Christina Soontornvat

375 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy middle grade adventurous hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

Wolf by Wolf

Wolf by Wolf #1

Ryan Graudin

400 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction historical speculative fiction young adult adventurous fast-paced
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

Angela Y. Davis

281 pages • first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history politics race challenging reflective slow-paced
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette by Bryan Talbot, Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth

Sally Heathcote: Suffragette

Bryan Talbot, Mary M. Talbot, Kate Charlesworth

192 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism historical informative medium-paced
The Conviction of Cora Burns by Carolyn Kirby

The Conviction of Cora Burns

Carolyn Kirby

320 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical mystery dark mysterious slow-paced
Fate by Mary Corran

Fate

Mary Corran

363 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction fantasy challenging mysterious slow-paced
A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

A Kind of Freedom

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

230 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction historical literary challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth

Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

Alisa Roth

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics psychology dark medium-paced
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

752 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime challenging informative slow-paced
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Sara Collins

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction historical lgbtqia+ mystery dark emotional medium-paced