Outside the Box Nonfiction - hosted by gmd316

A nonfiction book involving the justice system
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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

327 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X

496 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography history informative reflective medium-paced
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

476 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

Dashka Slater

5 hours, 44 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ true crime young adult challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff

Watergate: A New History

Garrett M. Graff

823 pages • first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning by Sarah Weinman

Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Sarah Weinman

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction sociology true crime challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Graybar Hotel: Stories by Curtis Dawkins
The Graybar Hotel: Stories
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Curtis Dawkins

The Graybar Hotel: Stories

Curtis Dawkins

224 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

320 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction race sociology true crime emotional informative sad medium-paced
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

Lee Israel

144 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction memoir true crime funny reflective medium-paced
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice by Laura Freeman, Carole Boston Weatherford

The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice

Laura Freeman, Carole Boston Weatherford

40 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative inspiring reflective medium-paced