The Full Prison Reading List
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Full List (A-Z)
Top 20: Non-Fiction
Top 20: Fiction
Full List (A-Z)
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers
Andrew Roberts - Napoleon: A Life
Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird
Anthony Powell - A Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Trollope - Barchester Towers
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer - Parerga and Paralipomena
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Barry Strauss - Ten Caesars
Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics
Benedict de Spinoza - Theologico-Political Treatise
Bernard Malamud - The Assistant
Bernard Malamud - The Fixer
Bertrand Russell - The History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness
Bertrand Russell - The Conquest of Happiness
Blaise Pascal - Pensées
Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy
C.G. Jung - Man and His Symbols
C.G. Jung - The Essential Jung
C.G. Jung - The Freud/Jung Letters
Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Christopher Hibbert - The French Revolution
Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin
Cicero - Tusculan Disputations
Clare Carlisle - Spinoza's Religion
Confucius - The Analects
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
David Sedaris - The Best of Me
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Dennis Lehane - Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane - Moonlight Mile
Dennis Lehane - Mystic River
Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane - Since We Fell
Dennis Lehane - The Given Day
Dennis Lehane - World Gone By
Diogenes Laertius - Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Don DeLillo - Libra
Don DeLillo - Underworld
Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz - The Voice of Knowledge
E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime
E.M. Forster - A Passage to India
Elmore Leonard - Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard - Rum Punch
Elmore Leonard - The Switch
Elmore Leonard - Up in Honey's Room
Ernest Hemingway - Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway - Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway - The Complete Short Stories
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and The Sea
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
Ernle Bradford - The Great Siege
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise
Francis Bacon - Essays
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections
Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathrustra
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
George Eliot - Middlemarch
George Eliot - Silas Marner
George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
Goldsworthy - Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
Goldsworthy - Caesar: Life of A Colossus
Graham Greene - Our Man in Havana
Gregory David Roberts - Mountain Shadow
Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine
Harvey A. Silverglate - Three Felonies a Day
Henry David Thoreau - Walden
Henry Green - Loving
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Henry Roth - Call it Sleep
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Hermann Hesse - Siddartha
Hesiod - Works and Days
Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac - Pere Goriot
Horace - The Complete Odes and Epodes
Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels
Ian McEwan - Atonement
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
James Allen - As a Man Thinketh
James Baldwin - Another Country
James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia
Jean-Dominique Bauby - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Confessions
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
Jean-Paul Sartre - We Only Have This Life to Live
Jed Rakoff - Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free
Jerzy Kosinsky - The Painted Bird
Joe Ide - IQ
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - From My Life: Poetry and Truth
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry
John Cheever - Falconer
John Julius Norwich - Four Princes
John Kennedy O'Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
John Lewis Gaddis - On Grand Strategy
Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
Jonathan Franzen - Strong Motion
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Joseph Heller - Something Happened
Junot Diaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut - Pity the Reader
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Levon Helm - This Wheel's on Fire
Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey to the End of the Night
Lord Chesterfield - Letters to my Son
Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Michael Connelly - The Black Echo
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
Michel Foucault - Discipline & Punish
Moses Maimonides - The Guide for the Perplexed
Nancy Mitford - Frederick the Great
Napoleon Bonaparte - Memoirs from St. Helena
Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Neil Howe - The Fourth Turning
Niccolo Machiavelli - Discourses
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Norman Vincent Peale - The Power of Positive Thinking
O. Henry - Selected Stories
Orison Swett Marden - How to Get What you Want
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
Philip Roth - American Pastoral
Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Plato - Republic
Plotinus - The Enneads
Plutarch - Lives
Plutarch - Moralia
Polybius - The Histories
Rafael Sabatini - The Life of Cesare Borgia
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder
Richard Burton - Arabian Nights
Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Penn Warren - All the King’s Men
Robert Stone - Dog Soldiers
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children
Saul Bellow - Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow - Herzog
Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
Seneca - Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Seneca - On the Shortness of Life
Seneca - Dialogues
Søren Kierkegaard - Papers and Journals
Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal - The Red and the Black
Stephen King - On Writing
Tacitus - The Annals
Tacitus - The Histories
Tana French - In The Woods
Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
Theodore Roosevelt - The Strenuous Life
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Virgil - Complete Works
Voltaire - Candide
Voltaire - Philosophy of History
Voltaire - Treatise on Toleration
W. Timothy Gallwey - The Inner Game of Tennis
Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
Walter Isaacson - Elon Musk
Walter Mosley - Devil in a Blue Dress
Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
Will Durant - The Renaissance
Will Durant - The Reformation
Will Durant - The Age of Reason Begins
Will Durant - The Age of Louis XIV
Will Durant - The Age of Voltaire
Will Durant - Rousseau and Revolution
Will Durant - The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant - The Lessons of History
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
William Faulkner - Light in August
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
William Gaddis - The Recognitions
William Goldman - Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Top 20: Non-Fiction
Blaise Pascal - Pensées
Plutarch - Moralia
Seneca - Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
Francis Bacon - Essays
Friedrich Nietzsche - The Will to Power
Michel de Montaigne - Essays
Bertrand Russell - The History of Western Philosophy
Cicero - Tusculan Disputations
Plutarch - Lives
Will Durant - The Age of Voltaire
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections
Ernle Bradford - The Great Siege
Will Durant - Rousseau and Revolution
James Allen - As a Man Thinketh
Michel Foucault - Discipline & Punish
Lord Chesterfield - Letters to my Son
Tacitus - Annals
Top 20: Fiction
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions
Hermann Hesse - Siddartha
Theodore Dreiser - An American Tragedy
William Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma
John O'Hara - Appointment in Samarra
Jerzy Kosinsky - The Painted Bird
Robert Penn Warren - All the King’s Men
John Cheever - Falconer
Saul Bellow - The Adventures of Augie March
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Stay blessed and highly favored,
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