The Troy James Clark Little Free Library
The Troy James Clark Free Little Library
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Troy was executed by the State Of Texas in Sept., of 2018.
This “Free Little Library” is filled with books he left to me after his execution...and
books donated by others. Books are a refuge to people in prison...and especially
to those in Solitary Confinement. Troy would say to me...”I need to put my beak
in a book” which would reference his love of reading, the ability to escape his
surroundings, and his love of birds.
Included in this space are Booklists from many incarcerated individuals who
contribute to this page.
And links to sites where you can donate reading material to people like Troy and
the many others who would otherwise be forgotten.
Daniel Gwynn
1. Georgetown Law Journal
2. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
3. Facing The U.S. Prison Problems
by Shawn Griffith
4. Prisoner's Self Help Litigation Manual
5. Creating Black Americans
by Neil Irvin Painter
6. Beyond The Messy Truth
by Van Jones
7. Messages Of Life From Death Row
by Pierre Pradervand
8. Dreams From My Father
by Barack Obama
9. Battlefield Of The Mind
by Joyce Meyers
10. The Holy Bible
Jermont Cox
1. The 5 People You Meet In Heaven
by Mitch Albom
2. I cannot recall the name of this book...
It was a book about a family of alcoholics and how alcoholism is a disease. I come from a family of alcoholics.
3. The third book I recall was a book about the abuse of women and children in third world countries. I was talking to a young lady who had a sort of bad reputation about giving herself away. And I wanted to show her how in certain countries women have no choice. At the same time reading that book renewed my responsibility that I have as a man to protect the women in my life. To show compassion and respect. If a woman tells me that that I offend...never question her emotions. Just say sorry and learn from it. Prison has the ability to turn a person cold towards the world. It can make a man treat a woman more as an object than a queen.
4. The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran
5. Mirrors Of The Soul
by Kahlil Gibran
6. The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
7. We Are The Ones We Have Been Waiting For
by Alice Walker
8. Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9. The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
by Alex Hailey
Howard Guidry
1. All About Love
by Bell Hooks
2. There There
by Tommy Orange
3. The Prophet
by Khalil Gibran
4. A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
5. Voice Of Knowledge
by Don Miquel Ruiz
6. Warrior of the Light
by Paulo Cohelo
7. Between The World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
8. Assata
by Assata Shakur
9. Man Search For Meaning
by Viktor Frankel
10. Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Anibal Canales
“I Have Been Locked Up Most Of My Life And Have Read A lot Of Books…and VERY Few Sucked.”
1. Trinity
By Leon Uris
2. Dreams Die First
By Harold Robbins
3. Lonesome Dove
By Larry McMurtry
4. The Stand
By Stephen King
5. The Count Of Monte Cristo
By Alexander Dumas
6. Exodus
By Leon Uris
7. Shogun
By James Clavell
8. Art Of War
By Sun Szi
9. Song Of Ice And Fire Series
By George Martin
10. Roots
By Alex Haley
Tony Medina
As I type this in November 2021, I have over 3160 books written down in my "Have Read" lost, which I started keeping in 2001. So picking out my "top 10" is VERY hard, as I love different books for different reasons...i would say that my Top 10 changes constantly, but here are some of them.
1. The Godfather
by Mario Puzo (Pure Classic)
2. Shogun (the whole series is GREAT)
by James Clavell
3. Gangster
by Lorenzo Carcaterra (always in my top 5)
4. Papillon
by Henri Charriere (an absolutely INCREDIBLE story)
5. Rain of Gold
By Victor Villasenor (LOVE IT)
6. Shantaram
by Gregory David Roberts
7. Genghis Khan Series
by Conn Iggulden
8. Aztec
by Gary Jennings
9. Lucky
by Jackie Collins
10. The Necroscope Series
by Brian Lumley
The Death Row Soul
1. Maus
Art Spiegelman
2. A Peoples History Of The United States
Howard Zinn
3. Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand
4. The Night Trilogy
Elie Wiesel
5. Soul On Ice
Eldridge Cleaver
6. Race to incarcerate
Marc Mauer
7. The new Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Hailey
9. Don’t Forget Us Here
Mansoor Adayı
10. Everything by James Baldwin
Aziliah Y Africa
1. Assata
by Assata Shakur
2. Autobiography Of Malcolm X
By Alex Hailey
3. Reallionaire
by Farrah Grey
4. Long Walk To Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
5. Blood In My Eye
By George Jackson
6. Autobiography Of A Fugitive Slave
by Frederick Douglas
7. Behold A Pale Horse
by William Cooper
8. Mastery
by Robert Green
Dalton Collins
1.) K. Marx & F. Engels; International Publishers:
“On The Origin Of The Family, The State and Private Property”
2.) David McLellan; Oxford University Press:
“Karl Marx: Selected Writings”
3.) Howard Selsam & Harry Martel; International Publishers:
“Reader In Marxist Philosophy: From The Writings of Marx,
Engels, and Lenin”
4.) author unknown; International Publishers:
“Dialectical and Historical Materialism”
5.) Lawrence Brown; “The Might Of The West”
6.) Mark Levin: “Liberty and Tyranny”
(All his books are worth reading if you want to understand
conservative thought.)
7.) Primo Levi: “Survival In Auschwitz”
8.) Phillip Zimbardi “The Lucifer Effect”
(A book about the Stanford Prison experiments...)
9.) Robert Greene: “The 48 Laws Of Power”
10.) Niccolò Machiavelli: “The Prince”
*I could go on to add a great many more books in the same vein-I have a keen
interest in politics, ideas, philosophy and human nature and the nexus where they
all meet. This is a short list of books that have helped inform my world view,
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Pete Russel
1. The New Jim Crow...
by Michael Alexander
2. Solitary...
by Albert Woodfox
3. Blood In My Eye
by George Jackson
4. Defining Moments In History
by Dick Gregory
5. Project Soul Catcher
by Robert Duncan
6. Mass Control
by Jim Keith
7. Behold A Pale Horse
by William Cooper
8. Collected Poems
by Robert Hayden
9. Medical Apartheid
by Harriet Washington
10. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
by Joy Degruy Leary
Tarus Sales
1. Impressions
by Krista Johns (because of her dedication)
2. The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
3. Soledad Brother
by George Jackson
4. Out of The Ashes
by William Johnstone
5. The Coldest Winter Ever
by Sister Souljah
(anything by Sister Souljah)
6. The Song of Ice and Fire (series)
by George R.R. Martin
7. The Name of The Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
8. The "Saxon" Tales (series)
by Bernard Cornwell
9. Think and Grow Rich
by Napoleon Hill
10. The Last Templar
(author unknown)
Perry Austin
Perry Speaks…
My top ten books?
I don’t know if they could be called special, but they are my favorites, books I can read multiple times. I tend to like post-apocalyptic/dystopian type books. So, except for the first two, the others are of the post-apocalyptic/dystopian genre.
1) “The Secret Life Of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd
2) “Where The Crawdaddy Sing” by Delia Owens
3) “The Unwound Series” by Neal Shusterman (Four Book Series)
4) “The Silo Series” by Hugh Howey (Three Book Series)
5) “Swan Song” by Robert R. McCammon
6) “The Stand” by Stephen King
7) “The Maze Runner Series” by James Deshner
8) “The Hunger Games Series” by Suzanne Collins
9) “Escape From The Future Series” by Alexander Gordon Smith
10) “The Strain Series” by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hagan
These are all books I really liked. But there are more! There’s a twelve or thirteen book series by Taylor Anderson called “The Destroyermen Series.” I usually get bored by a long series such as this, but this guy writes good and he grabs and keeps your attention. There’s also a post nuclear war trilogy by William R. Forstchen, “One Second After” “One Year Later” and “The Final Day.”
Anyway…those are my favorites and anyone who’s into the post/apocalyptical dystopian genre will really enjoy these.
Perry is housed on Texas Death Row.
#EndTheDeathPenalty
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