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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Noir dessein roman
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Noir dessein roman

Julie Parsons, Isabelle Maillet

Published 2002

389 pages

Le divorce
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Le divorce

Diane Johnson

1996 · 1998 edition

95 pages

Prisons
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Prisons

Gérard Delteil

1986 · 1990 edition

248 pages

Bagne, A P
Cover of Bagne, A P

Bagne, A P

Jean-Luc de Laguarigue, Patrick Chamoiseau

Published 2011

91 pages