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The following list represents the most popular books on gangs according to two leading online book sellers. Using the rank for each book from those two sites, Street Gangs assemble this list. Although these books are the most popular, they are not neccessarily the best and most important books on gangs. Street Gangs is currently assembling a list of the most important gang books in the last 25 years.
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- Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle, Random House
- Behind Bars: Surviving Prison, by Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards, Alpha Books
- Life in Prison, by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Barbara Cottman Becnel, Chronicle Books
- Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld, by Herbert Asbury, Thunder's Mouth Press
- Monster: An Autobigraphy, by Sanyika Shakur aka Monster Kody Scott, Penguin Books
- 8 Ball Chics, by Gini Sikes, Anchor Press
- Gang Intelligence Manual, Identifying And Understanding Modern-Day Violent Gangs In The United States, by Bill Valentine, Paladin Press
- Always Running, by Luis J. Rodriguez, Touchstone
- Gangs And Their Tattoos : Identifying Gangbangers On The Street And In Prison, by Bill Valentine, Paladin Press
- My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King, by Reymundo Sanchez, Chicago Review Press
- Do or Die, Leon Bing, Harper Perennial
- Once a King, Always a King : The Unmaking of a Latin King, Reymundo Sanchez, Chicago Review Press
- Inside the Crips: Life Inside LA's Most Notorious Gang, Colton Simpson, St. Martin's Press
- Inside Rikers : Stories from the World's Largest Penal Colony, by Jennifer Wynn, St. Martin's Griffin
- Peace in the Streets: Breaking the Cycle of Gang Violence, by Arturo Hernandez, Child Welfare League of America Press
- Blue Rage, Black Redemption, by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Damamli Publishing
- Home of the Body Bags, by Terrell "Loko" Wright, Senegal Press
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- G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles, by Celeste Fremon, University of New Mexico Press
- Gangs and the Abuse of Power (Tookie Speaks Out Against Gang Violence), by Stanley "Tookie" Williams, Econo-Clad Books
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