Read 10 Books by Formerly Incarcerated People

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7 participants (17 books)

Overview

A reading list featuring works by formerly incarcerated people of all identities. 

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The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid by Anand Teltumbde

The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid

Anand Teltumbde

192 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva by Anand Teltumbde

Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva

Anand Teltumbde

432 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction politics 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
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
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

182 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

fiction classics historical dark emotional reflective slow-paced
Querelle by Jean Genet

Querelle

Jean Genet

288 pages • first pub 1947 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ dark slow-paced
Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet

216 pages • first pub 1943 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ challenging slow-paced
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

408 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction classics essays lgbtqia+ poetry dark medium-paced
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

Assata: An Autobiography

Assata Shakur

274 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Lara Love Hardin

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced