PBP Reading Challenge - hosted by be_a

A book borrowed from PBP's lending library
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Virginia State Penitentiary: A Notorious History by Dale M. Brumfield

Virginia State Penitentiary: A Notorious History

Dale M. Brumfield

272 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history medium-paced
Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail by David Coogan

Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail

David Coogan

258 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Nicole R. Fleetwood

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art politics
Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Felon: Poems

Reginald Dwayne Betts

112 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) by Albert Woodfox

Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

Albert Woodfox

414 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced
Prisoners' Inventions by Angelo in collaboration with Temporary Services

Prisoners' Inventions

Angelo in collaboration with Temporary Services

200 pages • missing pub info (editions)

dark informative reflective medium-paced
Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons by Colin Kaepernick

Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons

Colin Kaepernick

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics race challenging hopeful informative medium-paced
From the First Sentence: 50 Years of Prison Book Program by Erin Wentz, Daniel Willbach, Nancy Howell, Kelly Brotzman, Pam Boiros

From the First Sentence: 50 Years of Prison Book Program

Erin Wentz, Daniel Willbach, Nancy Howell, Kelly Brotzman, Pam Boiros

124 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction art poetry
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer

368 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison by Chris Hedges

Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison

Chris Hedges

272 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced