Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
Ranked #1 in Prison, Ranked #8 in 2010 — see more rankings.
With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and sentenced to 15 months at an infamous women's prison in Connecticut. From her first strip search to her final release, she learns to navigate this strange world with its arbitrary rules and codes, its unpredictable, even dangerous relationships. Now a major original television series, Piper's story... more
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Rankings by Category
Orange Is the New Black is ranked in the following categories:
- #61 in Adulting
- #35 in Autobiography
- #95 in Bestseller
- #74 in Biography
- #12 in Criminology
- #77 in Documentaries
- #44 in Drugs
- #81 in Factual
- #31 in Justice
- #20 in Memoir
- #90 in Nonfiction
- #11 in Orange
- #48 in Real Life
- #78 in True Crime
- #48 in True Stories
- #37 in True Story
- #70 in Women
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