Book Recommendations
❄️ Winter Reading Recommendations: Wrongful Convictions ❄️
Why do you pick up the books you do? To be entertained? Challenged? Enlightened? These stories deliver all that—and more. They'll grip you like a thriller, teach you like a textbook, and leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about our legal system. Each title is a hand-picked masterclass in truth-telling, balancing real-life drama with insight and purpose. They're not just a way to pass the cold winter hours—they'll stick, stir, and stay with you long after the last page is turned. So pour yourself a glass of wine or brew a cup of coffee, light a candle or spark the fire, curl up in your favorite blanket, and dig in.
Short, gripping chapters that introduce real cases and recurring failures in the criminal legal process.
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey, et al.
An insider's account explaining how bias, incentives, and institutional culture sustain wrongful convictions.
Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
— Mark Godsey
A deeply reported narrative connecting race, policing, and prosecutorial decision-making.