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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Moll Flanders
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Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

1970 · 2017 edition

318 pages

EXIL (L')
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EXIL (L')

André Alexis, Emile Martel, Nicole Martel

2008 · 2009 edition

539 pages

ENFERMEMENT, (L) PARTAGE, (LE)
Cover of ENFERMEMENT, (L) PARTAGE, (LE)

ENFERMEMENT, (L) PARTAGE, (LE)

Mostafa Bouaziz, Mohamed Hitmi, Tayeb Biad, Driss El Yazami, A. Retnani, Asmaâ Mounir, Mohamed Grou, Cécile Tréal, Jean-Michel Ruiz, Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, Wakālat al-Maghrib al-ʻArabī lil-Anbāʾ

Published 2015

339 pages