Books like The Green Mile
In 1932, Paul Edgecombe, head guard on Louisiana's death row, comes to believe that John Coffey, a giant, gentle inmate convicted of murdering two girls, has a miraculous power to heal.
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A Lesson Before Dying
In 1940s Louisiana a young Black teacher is asked to visit a man sentenced to death for a killing he did not commit, so that he can face the electric chair as a man rather than as what his own lawyer called him.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
In 1933 Mississippi, nine-year-old Cassie Logan and her family, Black landowners determined to keep their land, face the cruelty of segregation and the night riders, and Cassie learns what it costs her parents to stand firm.
The Calamity Club
In Oxford, Mississippi, in 1933, Meg, an eleven-year-old left by her mother at the county orphan asylum for girls, and Birdie, who has come to town to beg her socialite sister for money to save the family home, find their lives tangling together in the depths of the Depression.
The Mars Room
Romy Hall, a former stripper at San Francisco's Mars Room club, begins two life sentences at a women's prison in California's Central Valley, and the novel shows the people and system around her.
An American Marriage
Celestial and Roy are newlyweds in Atlanta with bright futures when Roy is sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he did not commit, and as the years pass, she finds comfort in Andre, her childhood friend and their best man.
Water for Elephants
An old man in a nursing home remembers the Depression summer he jumped a train into a second-rate travelling circus and the wife and the elephant he helped steal from it.
Different Seasons
Four novellas about prison, childhood, friendship and revenge, including the stories that became The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Thirteen-year-old Jojo, his toddler sister, and their drug-addicted mother drive across Mississippi to collect his white father from Parchman prison, and the ghost of a boy who died there rides home with them.
Andersonville
The Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia, in 1864 and 1865, where tens of thousands of Union prisoners starved, and the people inside and outside its stockade.
Ironweed
Francis Phelan, a former major league ballplayer turned drunk, comes home to 1930s Albany at Halloween, haunted by the ghosts of the people he has failed, including the baby son he dropped.
The Four Winds
In 1934, as drought and dust storms ruin the Texas Panhandle farm she has worked for years, Elsa Martinelli must choose between staying with the land and taking her two children west to California, where the promise of work is not what it seems.
The Giver of Stars
Alice Wright marries a handsome American to escape her stifling life in England, and in Baileyville, Kentucky, in 1937, she joins the Packhorse Library, riding into the Appalachian mountains with books under the lead of the fiercely independent Margery O'Hare.