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    Thank you to all of you who took their time to recommend me books in this post "Page-turners about prison, cults, survival, and “places I’ll never reach” (true or based on true)" As a thank you to all of you, here's the list:

    The Emerald Mile – Kevin Fedarko

    Underland – Robert Macfarlane

    The Book of Seila – Wilda Hughes

    High Achiever – Tiffany Jenkins

    Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City – Edmund Richardson

    The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber – Julian Rubinstein

    Sutton – J. R. Moehringer

    You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish – Jimmy A. Lerner

    The Hot House: Life in Leavenworth Prison – Pete Earley

    No Human Contact – Pete Earley

    The Fort Bragg Cartel – Seth Harp

    Papillon – Henri Charrière

    The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple – Jeff Guinn

    A Woman in the Polar Night – Christiane Ritter

    Gray After Dark – Noelle W. Ihli

    Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing – Ted Conover

    The Last Place on Earth (aka Scott and Amundsen) – Roland Huntford

    Sátántangó – László Krasznahorkai

    The Frontiersmen – Allan W. Eckert

    Kiss of the Spider Woman – Manuel Puig

    Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler

    The Star Rover – Jack London

    Medieval Graffiti: In the Footsteps of the Executed – Matthew Champion

    The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom – Sławomir Rawicz

    Escape – Carolyn Jessop

    The Outlaws – Ernst von Salomon

    The Indifferent Stars Above – Daniel James Brown

    The Woman They Could Not Silence – Kate Moore

    The Black Tulip – Alexandre Dumas

    A Marriage at Sea – Sophie Elmhirst

    Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer

    The White Masai – Corinne Hofmann

    Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors – Piers Paul Read

    Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts

    Uncultured – Daniella Mestyanek Young

    The Orphan Master's Son – Adam Johnson

    A House in the Sky – Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett

    First They Killed My Father – Loung Ung

    Forgotten Fire – Adam Bagdasarian

    Wasted Time – Edward Hertrich

    Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage – Alfred Lansing

    Educated – Tara Westover

    The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey – Candice Millard

    Marching Powder – Rusty Young

    Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

    by TheAce2000

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