Thank you for your book donations!!!!! We are still looking for more new or gently-used PAPERBACK books; please drop them in the labeled boxes around campus before this Friday, 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)