Sing Sing Prison Library

Book Donation Project

We are very excited to partner with the Sing Sing Prison Library in their newly launched library expansion project starting in the Summer of 2025.

Our role in this project will be to help collect books for the prison library in categories that are most needed and most requested—and that help those incarcerated at Sing Sing to meet their recreational, informational, and rehabilitative needs and goals.

To facilitate collection of more books for the prison library, we will take larger quantities than our usual donation amounts in all the categories listed below.

We invite our bookstore community to join us in this important project! For more information or questions about the project, please email us at janet@hvbooksforhumanity.com.

Most Needed and Requested Non Fiction Categories:

  • History (especially black history)

  • Biography (especially of American historical figures)

  • Black Liberation (especially related to the criminal legal system)

  • Economics/Finance/Entrepreneurship (last 5 years or seminal works)

  • Religion (Christianity and Islam especially)

  • Legal Books (last 5 years)

  • Self Help (last 10 years or seminal works)

  • Dictionaries and Thesauruses

  • Language Learning Guides (English or Spanish)

  • True Crime

Most Needed and Requested Fiction Categories:

  • Thrillers

  • Urban Fiction

  • Classics (old and new, from War and Peace to 1984 to the Parable of the Sower)

  • Science Fiction and Fantasy

  • Romance and Romantasy

  • Manga, Graphic Novels or Comics

  • Poetry by Black or Latinx Writers

Also Welcome:

  • Books in Spanish, Large Print Books, Jigsaw Puzzles, Word Puzzles and Sudoku

Book Condition Requested:

  • Gently Used (no water damage, torn pages, underlining etc.)