BOOK DONATIONS
We can't accept all of the books offered to us, due to space limitations. (We are trying to catch up on our overstock.)
Below is a list of books we are happy to accept. (Not a complete list)
Some books are always in
demand (literary classics):
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Farm
Catch-22
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Hobbit
Lord of the Flies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Infinite Jest
Siddhartha
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Ulysses
(and many other CLASSIC novels)
Also top-selling non-fiction:
The Power Broker: Robert Moses
and the Fall of New York
A People’s History of the
United States
The Diary of Anne Frank
Malcolm X
Grey’s Anatomy
The I Ching
The Four Agreements
The Art of War
The 48 Laws of Power
The Alchemist
The Power of Now
Books on:
African-American History
Latin-American History
NYC History
Chess
Astrology
Tarot
Organic Gardening
Home Brewing (beer/wine)
Cultivation of Marijuana
Books by:
Shel Silverstein
Dr. Seuss
Maurice Sendak
Beatrix Potter
Eric Carle
A.A. Milne
Maya Angelou
Michelle Obama
bell hooks
Octavia Butler
James Baldwin
Kurt Vonnegut
Ernest Hemingway
George Orwell
Pema Chodrun
Thich Nhat Hanh
Alan Watts
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
And, last but not least … GRAPHIC NOVELS!
If you think you have books that we would want, please contact us by email or phone, before you bring in your items, unless it's just a handful, i.e. fewer than ten.
Alternatively, there is a Youth Program (run by AHRC and Workforce Connect) at 136 Bay St., Staten Island, that might take your books — and they are less selective. Their number is 646‐581‐3728.
And here's another opportunity we just discovered: The Bellevue Hospital Patient Library is accepting book donations. Current magazines (less than 6 months old) are also welcome. Does not include children's books. Contact: Maurice Fortune@NYCHHC.org or 212‐562‐1361.
A wonderful non-profit Brooklyn Book Bodega will accept gently used children's books. They have several drop-off points, unfortunately all in Brooklyn. (But they serve all of NYC, and we hope to work more closely with them in the future.) "Brooklyn Book Bodega provides access to and ownership of books, builds community, and creates a passion for learning through free events and literacy-based community programming."
There are also a number of Little Free Libraries in Staten Island, where you can drop off small quantities of books (in good condition), and others can pick them up.