The most popular French prison books

Prison books are set behind walls and wire. Inmates, guards and the rules of a closed world shape stories of survival, friendship, injustice and escape. Novels and memoirs here are harsh and often deeply humane. Only books in French are listed.

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Des mots et des murs
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Des mots et des murs

Pascal Le Bert, Jean-Yves Giraudeau

Published 2007

159 pages

Des anges
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Des anges

Denis Johnson

1983 · 2007 edition

301 pages

Des prisons
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Des prisons

Paulos Kalligas, Marie-Paule Masson-Vincourt

Published 1997

110 pages

Des prisons
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Des prisons

Jean Favard

Published 1987

194 pages

Loin des yeux
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Loin des yeux

Elmore Leonard

1996 · 1998 edition

266 pages