Both work for me.

I got real into meditation and eastern philosophy during my last bit. I really enjoyed autobiography of a Yogi, I believe that's what started it.

Death in Venice (really anything by Thomas Mann, but especially this), Pieces for the Left Hand, Autumn Street, Life of Pi, Brave New World, Doctor Zhivago, Crime and Punishment (seriously), A Confederacy of Dunces, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, And Then There Were None, The Jungle, Siddhartha, and anything by Fredrik Backman and Charles Dickens. Good luck.

Best of luck.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20870778-this-blinding-absence-of-light?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=gXjwqxv3Ub&rank=1

Yuppppp that's at the top of my list! Ive purposely waited to start them for my incarceration. Thanks 👍

Maybe something that will help you in there mentally, something on mindfulness or character development?

Unless of course you're looking for fiction as more of a distraction in which case I'd ask what you're into and go form there?

Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series

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Papillon

A Scanner Darky by Philip K Dick

That sucks man. Hope you’re not in too long and you’re able to get a job/get your life back when you’re out.

Ok, here’s my recs:

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh. It’s about a girl who wants to use pills to spend an entire year sleeping so that her cells will replace themselves and she’ll be a different person when she wakes up. It’s hilarious and moving and I’ve never related to anyone more.

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. A man escapes prison in Australia and flees to Mumbai, where he becomes part of the cities criminal eco system. It’s a true story, except for the made up bits.

Junky by William S. Burroughs. If you like this one, it’s a great introduction to the beat authors!

Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y Davis. Short non fic on the utter bullshit that is the prison industrial complex.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley- dystopian future where people constantly pop pills handed out by the government to change their mood.

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. Non fiction. It’s about what we can learn about humanity from the study of psychedelics.

The Dying Earth Series by Jack Vance. This one has nothing to do with drugs or anything, it’s just a completely awesome series of fantasy books that make you feel like you’re in another world. I always re read it if I want to get away from my current surroundings. It’s the adventures of this dickhead scam artist wizard fucking around in a world where the sun has died so everyone knows the world could go dark at any moment. No one has anything to live for so everyone is just going wild.

Just peeped that cuz never heard, looks good. Thanks mate

I'm currently reading "Rejoice, a knife to the heart" by Steven Erikson. Sci-fi about an Alien AI intervening to stop our own self-made destruction

Really enjoying it so far.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

I loved learning about the French Revolution and, once I got used to the writing style, really enjoyed A Christmas Carol. I really tried to enjoy A Tale of Two Cities, but I felt like the characters were really wooden and one-dimensional. The only exception was the >!look-alike who sacrificed his life!< since he was the only one who did any actual growing through the story.

I also enjoy reading footnotes and endnotes to get more context for stories that were written in other times, but I still thought the book didn’t have any real depth. I was disappointed because I was really looking forward to enjoying this book.

Native Son by Richard Wright

Read it last time! Was absolutely fantastic!

👌😂 I see what you did there😉

It’s more like multiple trilogies.

Antifragile, Taleb

Try "Don't Drop the Soap" by Hu Phlung Pu

You might as well read something huge like The Count of Monte Cristo

It’s excellent. And has themes in there that you might relate with/find interesting

I thought it was a trilogy LOL.

Heard they're good, thank you!

I just realized this would come up, should have stated.

Delivery charges, MDMA and alprazolam (Xanax).

Same shit I went for before, dealing droogs.

Keep in mind, they won't let any books through they deem inappropriate. However, that's usually only if the cover of the book has something dumb on it. The only book they kept back last time was an LSD book because on the cover it said something along the lines of "LSD mafia"

Robin Hobb’s Farseer series gives you 13 meaty books.

Good luck.

Why are you going to prison? I’ll recommend you books based on your crime :)

Well, there is the prison library.

However, you can have your people send you books from approved vendors. Usually barnes n noble or Amazon i think.

Thank you!