
Episode 1: "Mother's Day"
Taystee and Poussey: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling


Poussey: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson


Flaca and Maritza: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Taking the Heat by Brenda Novak


Caputo: Total Feng Shui by Lillian Too


Big Boo: Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt



Episode 2: "Bed Bugs and Beyond"
Red: Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me by Meredith Zeitlin


Piper: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt


Poussey: Racso and the Rats of NIMH by Jane Leslie Conly


Exterminator: Fighting for Air — the Unknown Adventures of Young Doc Holliday by Jack Kincade



Episode 3: "Empathy Is a Boner Killer"
Poussey: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and The BFG by Roald Dahl


A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, and books by Sister Souljah



All of David Sedaris' books



The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven and The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter




Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, and books by Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Tropper, Jonathan Franzen, and Jonathan Kellerman






Nicky: a signed first edition of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway



Episode 4: "Finger in the Dyke"
Big Boo: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo



Episode 5: "Fake It Till You Fake It Some More"
Poussey: Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw


Taystee: Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne


Alex: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick



Episode 7: "Tongue-Tied"
Taystee: Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James



Episode 9: "Where My Dreidel At"
Caputo: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell


Maureen and Suzanne: books by Fran Lebowitz and Gena Showalter


Gloria: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan


Alex: An English Interpretation of the Holy Qur'an by Abdullah Yusuf Ali



Episode 10: "A Tittin' and a Hairin'"
Mendez (Pornstache): Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov


Blanca: Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little by E. B. White



Episode 11: "We Can Be Heroes"
Red: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler


Poussey: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins



Episode 12: "Don't Make Me Come Back There"
Big Boo: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson


O'Neill: The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis


Yoga Jones: The Essential Rumi by Rumi

