The List: Books I Read In Jail

While locked down fighting (and beating) a frame-up, I read books and did pull-ups... Here's what I polished off in 10 months (Feb-Dec '18)

*disclaimer, I absolutely did indeed read every title listed.


Aries Decision (Ludlum/Mills)
White Rage (Carol Anderson) must read!
Black Pain (T. Williams)
Rules of Betrayal
Naughtier Than Nice
Anthology of American Poetry (Rita Dove)
Aces High

After The Prophet
Black Panther (Coates)     must read!
American Dream
I Am Not Your Negro     must read!
Undisputed Truth (Tyson)     must read!
No Comebacks
Untold (Kahn)        must read!
Night School (Lee Childs)
Vicap8
Naked Greed (Stuart Woods)
12 Years A Slave         must read!
Die Trying (Childs)
Extremely Loud/Incredibly Close
Between Lovers (Dickey)
Make Me
Killing Floor
No Middle Name
Confessions of a Video Vixen
Vindicated
Manchild in the Promised Land
Alex Cross, Run
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fu*k       must read!
I Feel A Little Jumpy Around You
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Gionvanni     must read!
American Gun (Chris Kyle)
Between The World And Me         must read!
Low Road      must read!
Autumn
100 Best African American Poems
Super Rich (Russell Simmons)
So You Want To Talk About Race     must read!
Upside of Fear (Weldon Long)
Freakonomics                must read!
Unbreak My Heart (Braxton)
Nimona
Dangerous Women
Thousandth Floor
Makes Me Wanna Holler       must read!
American Gods
Ice Limit
A Good Cry (Nikki Giovanni)
Black Ink                            must read!
Guerilla Marketing/Job Escape
False Memories (Koontz)
Blazed
The Mission
Downsize This!
Lies My Teacher Told Me     must read!
That Bird Has My Wings
American Project (Venkatesh)
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
Pill City            must read!
3 Cups of Tea
3 Cups of Deceit      must read!
J Edgar Hoover
Vixen Diaries
Genius of MJ      must read!
Demand the Impossible (Bill Ayers)     must read!
Encyclopedia of Black Comics
Boy 21
Personal (Childs)
Call Girl
My Fight, Your Fight (Rousey)
Around The Way Girl (Taraji Henson)
The Snowden Files
Mo' Meta Blues (?estlove)
Revelations
Stories of Greek Heroes
A Question of Freedom
Live From Death Row (Abu Jamal)
Islam (Karen Armstrong)
No God But God (Aslan)       must read!
Drama Queen Saga
Yummy               must read!
Eyes On the Prize    must read!
Evicted (Matthew Desmond)     must read!
People's History of the United States     must read!
Ready Player 1
The Force Awakens
Ninja (John Man)
Samurai (Man)
The Shape of Water
String Diaries
The English Girl (Daniel Silva)
American Street
Allegedly      must read!
Decadence (Dickey)
Rogue One
The Sun Does Shine       must read!
Origin (Dan Brown)
The Accidental Affair
Sante Fe Dead
Cheaters
BlackBirds
Between Lovers
Liars Game
SOS (Baraka)
Rule of Secrecy
Zero Zero Zero
Armada
Collected Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks    must read!
The Backs of Small Children
I Can't Breathe (Matt Taibbi)      must read!
The Fallen
All American Murder
Big Bad Wolf
Fight Club 2
I Can't Make This Up (Kevin Hart)
People vs Alex Cross
Secret Lives of Presidents
Mary Mary
African Myths of Origin
Anthology of Rap      must read!
Boxer
American Born Chinese     must read!
A Wanted Woman
Who Asked You (Terry McMillan)
Getting to Happy
In The Footsteps of the Prophet
The Hate U Give        must read!
Night (Weisel)
Live Girls
Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation     must read!
Wildfire
Koran for Dummies
Your Fatwa Is Not Wanted Here
The Girl Who Took an Eye for an Eye
Sculptor          must read!
Female Chauvinist Pigs (Ariel Levy)     must read!
Empire State of Mind
Love Lost Da Game
Tripwire
The King of Tort
The 5th Assassin
Creative Tech
1001 Smartest Things Ever Said    must read!
The Catholic Church Through The Ages
The Innocent (Baldacci)
I, Alex Cross
Anger Is A Gift        must read!
The Hard Way
Misadventures of An Awkward Black Girl
Solo (Kwame Alexander)     must read!
The Black Widow (Silva)
40 Million Dollar Slave
There, There
Dope Sick
Milk and Honey
Pride
Sandman - Prelude and Nocturns
The Poppy War        must read!
Some Day It Will All Make Sense (Common)
61 Hours
Ruby        must read!
Arabic for Dummies   must read!
Double Cross
From Slave Ship to Harvard     must read!
Those Guys Have All The Fun
When They Call You A Terrorist     must read!
Anatomy of Terror
Gone Tomorrow
Spartacus - Sword and Ashes
Locking Up Our Own     must read!
Doubt
2008 Years Best Sci-fi
Becoming (Obama)
Echo Burning
Persepolis
Just Mercy
Bass Reeves     must read!
The Crimson Petal and The White
Fast Food Nation     must read!
Under Fire (Clancy)
The Divide (Taibbi)    must read!