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.

All books added
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

688 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional informative medium-paced
De heks van Limbricht by Susan Smit

De heks van Limbricht

Susan Smit

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical dark sad medium-paced
The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline

The Exiles

Christina Baker Kline

370 pages • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

fiction historical literary adventurous emotional informative medium-paced
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

Idaho

Emily Ruskovich

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Christy Lefteri

319 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller

Bitter Orange

Claire Fuller

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical literary mystery thriller dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice by Jessica Trisko Darden, Izabela Steflja

Women as War Criminals: Gender, Agency, and Justice

Jessica Trisko Darden, Izabela Steflja

180 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang by Ava Farmehri

Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang

Ava Farmehri

252 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho

Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

Catherine Cho

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology emotional reflective fast-paced
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

The Memory Police

Yōko Ogawa

274 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction dystopian literary science fiction dark reflective sad slow-paced