Thank you for helping us spread the love of reading and improved literacy to incarcerated individuals across the United States!
Your donations mean so much, and we are still looking for more new or gently-used PAPERBACK books; 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.
Check out https://dcbookstoprisoners.org/donate-books/ to learn more about this amazing program and the types of books to donate. Here are a few common requests:
- 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
- Game/puzzle books
- GED preparation
- Science fiction
- Mysteries
- Memoires and biographies
- How to draw
- Novels by David Baldacci, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Lee Child, Stephen King, Patricia Cornwall, Harlan Corben, Stuart Woods, Vince Flynn, J.A. Jance, C.J. Box, or Michael Connelly
- Novels in Spanish (these can be hardcover or paperback)