The most popular French homelessness books

Books about homelessness tell the stories of people living without a home. Memoirs and reporting describe the streets, the shelters and how easily it can happen, and novels give those lives the attention they rarely receive. They are humane books that change how you see your own city. Only books in French are listed.

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Les Bas-fonds
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Les Bas-fonds

Maksim Gorky, Maxim Gorky, Laurence Irving

1972 · 1997 edition

128 pages

Abondance
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Abondance

Jakob Guanzon

2021 · 2023 edition

224 pages

Lottery boy
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Lottery boy

Michael Byrne

Published 2015

281 pages

Belleville au coeur
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Belleville au coeur

Christian Page, Eloi Audoin-Rouzeau

Published 2018

157 pages