Book Donation Guidelines

If you have book donations in the following categories, email info@booksthroughbarsnyc.org or DM us @booksthroughbarsnyc for approval

Once approved, you may drop off in Brooklyn at 123 Columbia Street , Saturdays and Sundays from 11 AM to 8 PM, or Tuesdays after 6:30 PM.

Please don’t send mail or parcels to this address.  We do not make book pickups.  However, if you have many books from the categories listed below and absolutely cannot drop them off, email us to inquire about alternatives.

We generally can’t accept more than 5 medium-size boxes of books at a time. We can’t accept hardcover books because most prisons don’t allow them, and they are more expensive to mail.  Please, don’t donate categories we aren’t currently asking for, out-of-date or obscure texts. We’ve got an overflow of general fiction, plays, short stories, poetry, and writing textbooks.  We are working with limited resources and space, and donations we can’t use are cumbersome.

Requirements: Books must be paperback & in good or new condition

No highlighting, underlining, margin notes, stains, or spiralbound

Most needed currently:

Activities such as adult coloring books, puzzles, wordfind, crossword, tabletop RPG guides
Arabic and Japanese language textbooks
Astrology and Tarot
Conspiracies, secret societies, UFOs, aliens
Comics, manga, graphic novels
Genre fiction: true crime, thriller, horror, urban, romance, fantasy, sci-fi
History. especially Black, Indigenous, + South American
Horticulture + Veggie Gardening
How-To (drawing, origami, chess, knitting)
Music history + biographies
Spanish language, bilingual dictionaries
Trade, business, personal finance
Wicca, paganism, santeria, occult
Workout and yoga guides