Newjack: Guarding Sing SingModern · Nonfiction, Memoir, True Crime
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
1999 · 352 pages · Nonfiction
41
Modern
★ 3.99 on Goodreads · 5K ratings
≈ 9 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2000). 3.99★ from 5K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
41Must-Read Score
- Critics58 out of 100 · counts 35%+24
- Readers31 out of 100 · counts 50%+17
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #142 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #244 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #864 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2000)
Shortlisted
- Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction) finalist (2001)
Reads as
Gripping, True story, Dark
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