This month we are looking for donations of Manga! Manga continues to be one of our most frequently requested categories, it flies off the shelves! Please consider donating new or used paperback manga.

This month we are looking for donations of: Paperback History (World, U.S, modern) Paperback Science We can only accept paperbacks in good conditions! Please ensure that you check any donations for staining, we cannot send anything with stains.

Today is GiveBIG Day 2026 and Books to Prisoners (BTP) is facing an unprecedented time. We need your support more than ever as we work to answer more than 1,000 letters from prisoners every month. The United States continues to lock up millions of citizens without providing adequate support for prison education or prison libraries. Prison literacy programs are frequently one of the only ways incarcerated people are able to own books and use these vital tools to soothe themsel

Get ready for GiveBIG Day 2026! GiveBIG is a statewide fundraising campaign hosted by Washington Gives to raise money for nonprofit organizations.This year, GiveBig kicks off on April 28, 2026, and ends with a 24-hour giving event on May 5! We hope you will take this opportunity to donate to Books to Prisoners (BTP)! A donation to BTP allows us to continue to offer essential books and other printed resources to incarcerated people across the United States. The work we do is

Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) is a time for us to celebrate the local businesses that keep the art of storytelling alive. These precious spaces promote literacy, champion new and marginalized voices, build communities, showcase local writers, and help sustain a diverse literacy ecosystem. In honor of IBD, Books to Prisoners (BTP) is partnering with local bookstores to expand access to books for incarcerated readers. From April 25th to May 2nd, when you visit a participating

Have you ever found yourself exploring a new neighborhood, spotting a bookstore you’ve never visited. You walk in, “just to browse,” and before you know it, you’re walking out with a stack of new books from fresh authors thanks to the convincing recommendations and table showcases from the bookstore’s employees. April 25 is Independent Bookstore Day and a time to celebrate and support those small businesses that feed your healthy book-reading infatuation. We invite you on I

Our library runs on donations! This month we are particularly looking for magazines! Please consider bringing in any of the following: Fashion magazines Celebrity and pop culture magazines Sports magazines Car/truck magazines

We need more books! Please consider donating your used or new books to BTP! Current categories we are low on: Dictionaries (paperback) Fantasy (paperback or hardback) Horror (paperback or hardback) Thrillers (paperback or hardback) Native American history (paperback) Pagan/Occult (paperback or hardback) Meditation (paperback or hardback) Cars (paperback or hardback) Black fiction (paperback or hardback)

We need more books! Please consider donating your used or new books to Books to Prisoners! We will make sure they find a lovely new home:) Categories we are currently low on: Paperback dictionaries Fantasy (paperback or hardback) Horror (paperback or hardback) Thrillers (paperback or hardback) Sci-fi (paperback or hardback) Spanish-English dictionaries (paperback) How to draw (paperback) Composition books Native American literature (paperback)

Happy New Year! As we enter 2026 please consider donating books! Donations are the lifeline of Books to Prisoners and enable us to continue our work. We are specifically looking for the following genres and titles. We accept new and used books and have a strong preference for paperbacks, although we will accept hardbacks as well. Fiction: Fantasy Horror Non Fiction: Beyond Bars Used Copies Penguin Random House Prisoner’s Self-Help Litigation Manual Amazon A few used copies

Fund named for Bellingham literacy activist, Nancy Duncan Huss Books to Prisoners, which has been sending free books to prisoners since 1973, was approached this year by a donor whose stated interest was serving as many people as possible. The donor was thinking big, bigger than BTP alone could manage at short notice. What BTP COULD do was recruit others to this worthy cause. "BtP organizers recognize that, over the short term, leveraging other groups' capacities is an effect

Books we're out of: Coloring books for adults (no nudity) Paperback books about automotive repair and maintenance Paperback self help Figure Drawing for Kids, or other paperback drawing guides without nudity Paperback fantasy Paperback dictionaries Paperback Jewish nonfiction and fiction You may notice a trend here. The number of prisons and jails that don't allow people to have hardcover books grows by the month. Paperbacks can go so many places that hardcovers can't. Book

In 2025, we've spent almost $6500 a month to ship 35,000 pounds of books to 10,823 readers behind bars. That's a lot of stories told, skills learned, and wisdom gained. This GivingTuesday, December 2nd, we're asking you for a total donation of $10,000. That's enough to cover our postage through mid-January. You'll be sharing your love of reading with strangers. Some of them will become avid readers themselves. What better gift could you give for the holidays?

Orca totem, Pacific NW coast. We need donations of paperback Native American nonfiction and fiction by Native American authors year-round. We're especially low right now. We're looking for fiction, biographies and memoirs by and about Native Americans, history from an indigenous perspective, and pre-Columbian religions/mythology. Here are some contemporary authors and titles we'd like to have in order to fill requests from incarcerated readers: Literary fiction by Leslie Marm

Thanks to all of you who donated during Banned Books Week 2025! Thank you to everyone who bought new books to donate to Books to Prisoners during Banned Books Week, October 5-11. Together, you gave 332 new paperbacks worth a total of $6225. A generous donor will match the dollar amount of your gifts. We'll use that grant to buy more new paperbacks, to educate and entertain people in prisons around the US. While the matching grant is only applied for books bought during Banned

Books last longer than candy, and they're better for your teeth! We always need books on these spooky topics: Horror fiction, classic and modern Paranormal fiction of all kinds and not-so-spooky, but still associated with Halloween and scary movies: Witchcraft Wicca Neopaganism Spiritual practices inspired by indigenous traditions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas As well as books about: UFO's and aliens Cryptozoology Haunted houses Bizarre coincidences The Occult If you hav

"Used Books Not Allowed" scrawled on the wrapping paper of a package of books refused by a prison mailroom. Today is the first day of Prison Banned Books Week 2025, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access inside jails, prisons, and detention centers. Head to prisonbannedbooksweek.org for updates and actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS CHAPTER by donating books, gifting postage money, volunteering, and sprea

“Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” That's the theme the American Library Association and the Banned Books Coalition have chosen for Banned Books Week 2025. Their focus is on censorship in public places like schools or libraries. But many more books are censored in the relative privacy of a prison mailroom. Censorship in schools and libraries centers on the words and pictures in the books. Books are often censored for content in prisons as well, but also for many u

Thanks to WotCon, producers of the Wheel Of Time Fan Convention, for raising over $2200 in T-shirt sales for Books to Prisoners last month. That's enough postage to send more than 400 packages of books to incarcerated readers. The Wheel of Time is a series of popular fantasy novels by Brandon Sanderson and the late Robert Jordan. It became a tv series on Amazon Prime in 2021. For the fifth year, WotCon hosted a convention of fans in Columbus OH over the first weekend of July.

and their hosts at WotCon for raising funds for us at the Wheel of Time fan convention in Columbus OH this weekend. As a gift to anyone who donates $50 or more to Books to Prisoners by default, or any other prison book program you specify, Kate and Michael will record a one-minute greeting with your choice of words, suitable for your phone. If you couldn't make it to Columbus this weekend, but you want a voice recording anyway, go to https://www.katereadingaudiobooks.com/book