18 books like Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

What to read after Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Gang of One Gary Mulgrew · 2012 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Gang of one is the remarkable true story of one man's journey from a Glasgow orphanage to a notorious gang-infested prison in Texas. Driven by his desire to return to his son in England and haunted by the increasingly frustrating search for his missing daughter, Gary Mulgrew attempts the impossible task of surviving the prison's gang culture. Gary's choice - to walk away and let a man die, or… Shares Prisons, Prisoners

The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde · 1896 · ★ 4.3 · 49p · ≈ 1h · Challenging *The Ballad of Reading Gaol* is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from HM Prison Reading on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. Shares Prisons, Prisoners

The island of Heavenly Daze Lori Copeland · 2000 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine. It is decorated with graceful Victorian mansions, carpeted with gray cobblestones and bright wild flowers, and populated by sturdy, hard-working folks-most of whom are unaware that the island of Heavenly Daze is not just like the other islands of coastal Maine. The small town that crowns its peak… Shares Maine

De profundis Oscar Wilde · 1905 · ★ 4.2 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Obra de expiación del escritor irlandés Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Acusado de pederastia, homosexualidad y al borde del suicidio al ser condenado a dos años de prisión, Wilde encuentra consuelo en la meditación del dolor y del sufrimiento a través de la vida, pasión y muerte de un Jesús humanizado. Arrepentido de su oprobiosa culpa, desea rehacer su vida y encontrar una nueva felicidad. Shares Prisons, Prisoners

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ Александр Солженицын · 1970 · ★ 4.6 · 660p · ≈ 22h · Challenging The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of… Shares Prisons

I.N.R.I Peter Rosegger · 1905 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Prisoners with this book.

Choppy Water

Choppy Water Stuart Woods · 2020 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In this exhilarating new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington must go up against an enemy with deadly intentions--and ideologies.Stone Barrington and his friends are vacationing in Maine when their leisure is suddenly disrupted by extreme weather. To make matters worse, the inclement conditions allow for a menacing adversary to sneak in unnoticed and… Shares Maine

The Missing Sarah Langan · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 2007 Bram Stoker Award winner. A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat . . .The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small,… Shares Maine

Cujo Stephen King · 1981 · ★ 4.4 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Cujo (/ˈkjuːdʒoʊ/) is a 1981 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a rabid Saint Bernard. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983. Shares Maine

Night journey Stephen King · 1996 · ★ 4.5 · 90p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Green Mile #5 Prison Warden Hal Moores and his wife Melinda have also been Paul and Janice Edgecombe's friends. When Paul learns that Melinda has a brain tumor, he decides to help but knows that the warden would never allow John Coffey to leave the prison and, obviously, Melinda could not go there. He and the other guards from E Block take on a dangerous plan to spirit Coffey out during… Shares Prisons

Insomnia Stephen King · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 764p · ≈ 25h · Challenging Insomnia is a 1994 horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It follows retired widower Ralph Roberts whose increasing insomnia allows him to perceive auras and other hidden things, leading him to join a conflict between the forces of the Purpose and the Random. Like It and Dreamcatcher, the story is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. It includes connections to other Stephen… Shares Maine

Haunted

Haunted James Patterson & James O. Born · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. He settles on an idyllic, small town in the beautiful Maine woods, a recommendation from a former colleague. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing left and right with no explanation --… Shares Maine

Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault · 1975 · ★ 4.1 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate English version of "Surveiller et punir : naissance de la prison" Shares Prisons

Misery Stephen King · 1978 · ★ 4.2 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his… Shares Prisoners

Needful Things Stephen King · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 698p · ≈ 23h · Challenging Needful Things is a 1991 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is the first novel King wrote after his rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. It was made into a film of the same name in 1993 which was directed by Fraser C. Heston. The story focuses on a shop that sells collectibles and antiques, managed by Leland Gaunt, a new arrival to the town of Castle Rock, Maine, the… Shares Maine

Dark Harbor

Dark Harbor Stuart Woods · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In Stuart Woods's perfect mix of sexy intrigue and swift suspense, Stone Barrington investigates the suicide of a CIA officer-his cousin. Shares Maine

Delirium Lauren Oliver · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 428p · ≈ 14h · Moderate English : The first book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much… Shares Maine

Dirty White Boys

Dirty White Boys Stephen Hunter · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 436p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Three convicts escape from a maximum-security penitentiary. With guile, fury, and surprisingly fine manners, they slash and shoot their way through Oklahoma and North Texas in a frenzy of violence, madness, and murder. And they're having a damn good time. Until they encounter state trooper Bud Pewtie. He's hot on their trail, but a little distracted. He's also hot on the tail of his young… Shares Prisoners

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