We’ll be collecting your unwanted books, especially DICTIONARIES, at our event on April 24th. All books will be donated to Books Through Bars NYC. 

Two times per week, Books Through Bars volunteers meet at Freebird Books in Redhook to match requests prisoners have sent them in the mail to the books on their shelves. Book packages are mailed out to individuals rather than prison libraries. The space, books, packing materials and labor is entirely donated. Their only expense is postage, tape and pens. If you have any of the following new or used paperback books collecting dust on your shelves, we’ll happily take them off your hands*.

African-American history, especially 20th century, Native American history, Latin American history, Radical politics, Social sciences and psychology, Dictionaries, thesauruses, and Spanish-English dictionaries, Learning world languages, How-to (drawing, chess, sign language…), Mayan and Aztec history, Memoirs and fiction by people of color, Mythology, Poetry anthologies

BOOKS THROUGH BARS CANNOT ACCEPT

Any Hardcover books, Children’s books, Encyclopedias, Religious books (INCLUDING BIBLES), Legal books (except legal dictionaries), Old magazines (besides for National Geographic), White supremacist literature or anything advocating racial animosity, sexism or homophobia, Business books, Computer books, Mass market fiction (such as Danielle Steele and Sidney Sheldon)

*We’re also collecting Trader Joes and Wholefoods paper bags for wrapping books.