Orange Is the New Black (2013) TV Series poster and book cover compared.

Orange Is the New Black

Jenji Kohan, 2013

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Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Piper Kerman, 2010

Orange Is the New Black is a TV series created by Jenji Kohan in 2013 and based on the book Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman, first published in 2010. The TV series features Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Laverne Cox, Michael Harney, and others.

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“The TV series is better than the book”

But the book is worth reading.

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RATING

8.1

/ 10

TV Series Poster: Orange Is the New Black (Jenji Kohan, 2013)

7.4

/ 10

Book Cover: Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (Piper Kerman, 2010)

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AUDIOBOOK

Audiobook cover of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, the 2010 book by Piper Kerman.

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Read by: Cassandra Campbell

Storyline

The series begins revolving around Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a woman in her thirties living in New York City who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a minimum-security women’s federal prison in upstate New York.

Movie vs Book

Poster of Orange Is the New Black, the 2013 TV series by Jenji Kohan

Year

2013

Minutes

59

Movie Rate

8.10

Source: IMDb

TV Series

Orange Is the New Black

Country: USA

Year: 2013

Length: 59m / 91 episodes

Cover of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, the 2010 book by Piper Kerman

Year

2010

Pages

561

Book Rate

7.42

S: Goodreads

Book

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Country: USA

First published in: 2010

Length: 561 pages

Genre: Biography

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Cover of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, the 2010 book by Piper Kerman

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TV series

IS IT WORTH WATCHING?

Poster of Orange Is the New Black, the 2013 TV series by Jenji Kohan

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25% No

9 votes

3 votes

book

IS IT WORTH READING?

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7 votes

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