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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Acide sulfurique
Cover of Acide sulfurique

Acide sulfurique

Amélie Nothomb

2006 · 2007 edition

224 pages

Fugue au Kenya
Cover of Fugue au Kenya

Fugue au Kenya

Felice Benuzzi

1974 · 1999 edition

336 pages

Moll Flanders
Cover of Moll Flanders

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

1970 · 2017 edition

318 pages