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By Freebird Books

In support of NYC Books Through Bars and their crucial efforts to keep the incarcerated supplied with reading material,  we asked Albert Woodfox what books he valued most during his 40 years within Louisiana's prison system.  Woodfox is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir of that time served (for a crime he didn't commit), Solitary.

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Solitary

Albert Woodfox 

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$19.00

$17.67

Nominated for the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, SOLITARY is the story of Woodfox's 40-year journey held within solitary confinement at the Louisiana prison called Angola.

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Native Son

Richard Wright 

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$18.00

$16.74

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

MALCOLM X 

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$9.99

$9.29

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A Different Drummer

William Melvin Kelley 

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$16.00

$14.88

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The New Jim Crow

Michelle Alexander 

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$18.99

$17.66

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