Help us fill prisoners’ book requests by donating your LIKE-NEW AND GENTLY USED BOOKS.

The books we will send are determined largely by prison restrictions and prisoner requests. We have book donation bins in several locations in the Connecticut River valley of Western Massachusetts.

DONATING BOOKS

People who generously donate books are an essential part of this project.  Please bring your gently used, softcover books to the locations listed below.  PLEASE DO NOT DONATE HARDCOVER BOOKS as they are not accepted at most prisons.

• Wildflower Alliance: 199 High St. Holyoke, MA M-TH 12-4pm
• Grace Episcopal Church: 14 Boltwood Ave. Amherst, MA
• Porch at 112 Maple St in Greenfield, MA
• Just Roots Farm: 34 Glenbrook Drive in Greenfield: Donation bin is in the barn
  Wed 2-6pm & Sat 9am-1pm June thru October
• 104 4th street in  Turner’s Falls, by appointment only (email gfbooksthroughbars@riseup.net to arrange).  Please do not leave donations here without making a plan with us first.
• 10 Forward: 10 Fiske Ave. Greenfield, MA
• Media mail ship to: PO Box 391 Greenfield, MA 01302

We won’t try to list every desirable type of book, but some examples of what we can always use are:

• comics/manga/graphic novels
• how-to’s/trades
• starting a business
• paperback dictionaries
• urban fiction
• thrillers
• wicca/witchy stuff
• art/drawing without nudity (it’s not us, it’s the prison administration)
• sudoku, puzzle/game books
• people’s histories
• westerns
• personal finance
• language dictionaries/ books in Spanish
• thesauruses
• paperback Role Playing Game [RPG] manuals

Check out our wishlist for more commonly requested books on Massive Bookshop

We don’t need hardcovers. Or books in poor condition (lots of writing or underlining, loose pages).  If you’re anywhere near Greenfield, and you need to get rid of some books, we recommend bringing them to Roundabout Books (26 Kenwood St. Greenfield, MA), that’s where we take our extras; they’ll recycle them, if nothing else.