If you have new or gently-used books that you’d like to donate, please drop them in the labeled boxes around campus before 2/20/26. Students in the Bonner Leader Program are collecting books for a service project during our spring break trip to Washington, DC. Scan the QR code on the flyer for a list of genres or contact alicia.burns@wilkes.edu with questions.
Thank you for helping us spread the love of reading and improved literacy to incarcerated individuals across the United States!
Check out https://dcbookstoprisoners.org/donate-books/ to learn more about this amazing program and the types of books to donate:
- College-level dictionaries — our #1 request
- National Geographic magazines
- Introductory (Level 1 or 2 or “phrase book”) language instruction and dictionaries for Spanish, American Sign Language (ASL), Hebrew, Latin, Japanese, German, Russian, Arabic, Greek, and various other European, Asian, and African languages
- Science fiction
As of November 2025, the following books are ideal for various prison book clubs:
- All About Love (bell hooks)
- Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Davis)
- Autobiography of Assata Shakur (Assata Shakur)
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo)
- A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
- Defending Jacob (William Landay)
- Don’t Call Us Dead (Danez Smith)
- Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng)
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer)
- Ghost Boys (Jewel Parker Rhodes)
- A Good Country (Laleh Khadivi)
- The Great Pretender (Susannah Cahalan)
- The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- Wonder (R.J. Palacio)