The Top Seven Best Fictional Prison Book Published

By Debra Wood


When speaking of literature, it contains many branches and genres that are each identified by definitive qualities it contains. As the years go by, more genres are added to that growing list, some combinations of two genres and others a new one altogether. One of those is called prison literature, wherein the person who created the book was trapped or confined in a specific location against their will.

Furthermore, it some authors have fully capitalized in this and has written numerous novels focusing on the subject entirely. A clear element is either the story taking place there, or a writer being trapped inside on against their will. It typically contains content about their experience, how they felt, or essential musings. Following this trail of thought, this article will be relaying the top seven best Fictional Prison Book published.

An iconic figure in the Realism movement is Fyodor Dostoyevsky. One of his earliest works is titled The House of the Dead and it emphasizes on the experiences of several convicts who were sentenced to spend time in an infamous camp in Siberia. While this is an important event in Siberian culture, the characters are purely fictional and are not based on any other stories.

Orange is the New Black is known mostly as a popular series, available in major streaming sites. However, what most people are not aware of, is that it was actually a book written by Piper Kerman. It is considered to be her memoir, following the experience of being imprisoned after being convicted of money laundering and drug trafficking.

A book that garnered some controversy is Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler. It gained some notoriety during its time of release because it contained some implications and heavy references to the trials that took place in Moscow. Koestler has not made any comments towards it but nevertheless, the work received high praise and was even enlisted as his best work ever published.

Alias Grace is a multi nominated and award winning novel written by Margaret Atwood. It was based on a real story about a man and his housekeeper named Nancy Montgomery who were killed by servants that worked for Thomas Kinnear. The partners were discovered with one being sentenced to life imprisonment, while the other was hanged after their trial.

Jack London wrote the novel titled The Star Rover, which is essentially a science fiction work but contains elements of prison genre as well. The story focuses on Darell, a professor who works at a University who is required to serve a life imprisonment sentence because he killed someone. The appointed officials then began to torture him by forcing him to wear a torture jacket that was so tight that it compressed his body painfully. To withstand this, he learns to force himself into an astral projection state to escape the pain he felt.

Activist Jean Genet made Our Lady of the Flowers. The plot takes place in an underground Parisian community. The lead character comes to terms with his current condition and the lifestyle he is exposed to. The area is filled with a lot of homosexuals, whom he observes from a distance and subsequently makes friends with.

Memoirs from the Women Prison is by Nawal El Saadawi. It recounts the objectification and discrimination women experience during imprisonment. It focus on sexism forced upon them that made their time spent there twice as hard.




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