The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, Naomi Murakawa, Oxford University Press, 2014

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, Dan Berger, University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics, Marie Gottschalk, Princeton University Press, 2014

A Costly American Hatred, Joe Dole, Midnight Express Books, 2015