DONATE BOOKS

Our project relies on your book donations - we wouldn't exist without them! We accept new and used paperback books. You can mail book donations to us at: Books Behind Bars PO BOX 2611 Wildwood, NJ 08260. You can also email us at: to schedule a drop off.

(Please note: we cannot accept hardcover books - most prisons don't accept them and they are expensive to mail. Paperbacks only - thank you so much!) ​

Books We Currently Need Most:​

• Popular thrillers and mysteries

• Fantasy, sci-fi, horror

• Trade, How to's, DIY

• Addiction & recovery

• Art, poetry, photography

• Yoga, meditation, mindfulness, exercise

• Astrology, tarot, dreams

• Prison abolition, prison writings

• Black & Latinx history, politics, culture

• Activism, radical movements, revolution

• Intersectional Feminism

• Queer fiction & non fiction

• Homesteading, gardening, urban farming

• Books in Spanish

• Zines

Books We Cannot Accept:

• Hardcover books

• Books with writing, highlighting, underlining, or missing pages

• Heavily worn or stained books

• Religious texts 

• Old magazines (we do accept National Geographic, but we are fully stocked right now.)

• White supremacist literature

• Books advocating racism, sexism, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, whorephobia, fatphobia or any other form of discrimination

• Computer books

You can also help by purchasing needed books from our Amazon Wishlist!