
Des hommes et des bagnes
Léon Collin
Published 2015
339 pages
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.

Léon Collin
Published 2015
339 pages

Denis Johnson
1983 · 2007 edition
301 pages

Jean-Paul Céré
2011 · 2020 edition
207 pages

Paulos Kalligas, Marie-Paule Masson-Vincourt
Published 1997
110 pages

Olivier Maurel
Published 2010
320 pages

Jeanne Bouissou
Published 2000
144 pages

Joseph Bialot
Published 2011
269 pages

Gisèle Ginsberg
Published 1992
251 pages

Jean Favard
Published 1987
194 pages

John Howard, Christian Carlier, Jacques-Guy Petit
Published 1994
599 pages

Anne-marie Pathé
Published 2012
376 pages

Sarah Dindo, Jean Berard, France. Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme
Published 2007
222 pages

Elmore Leonard
1996 · 1998 edition
266 pages

Mitch Albom
1985 · 2006 edition
223 pages

Jane Evelyn Atwood
2000 · 2025 edition
160 pages

Lucy Adlington
2021 · 2023 edition
368 pages

Jérôme Pierrat, Eric Guillon
Published 2004
111 pages

Joy Fielding
1994 · 2008 edition
333 pages

Kim Zupan
2014 · 2016 edition
304 pages

Victor Hugo
2014 · 2016 edition
336 pages

Hubert Lauvergne, André Zysberg
Published 1991
295 pages

Genepi
Published 1999
63 pages

Carla Neggers
Published 2002

Norman Mailer
1979 · 2016 edition
1312 pages