Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black AmericaModern · Nonfiction, History, Race
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
2017 · 322 pages · Nonfiction
68
Modern
★ 4.37 on Goodreads · 5K ratings
Reserve shelf
≈ 8 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (2018). 4.37★ from 5K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
68Must-Read Score
- Readers94 out of 100 · counts 40%+43
- Critics67 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+24
- Bestseller0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Buzz7 out of 100 · counts 15%+1
Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero.
On our reserve shelf: it hasn't collected enough Goodreads ratings yet for us to rank it alongside the Must-Read 50 pool. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) winner (2018)
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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