Last weekend, Books Through Bars went to the Philadelphia Public Library’s Civics Fair! This was our third time going to this event, we enjoyed meeting everyone there!

Lions and tigers and Bears, oh my! We need books about animals (with the exception of books about dogs and cats). If you have any to spare contact us at [email protected] Go Birds!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by during the dollar stroll last week! We had so much fun and loved seeing everyone! #WestPhilly #DollarStroll #BooksThroughBars

A new semester is starting for Address This! and we would love your help! Come to our monthly worknight next Tuesday 9/09/25 from 6-7pm to stuff envelopes with us and chat about the program.

Here’s another testimony we’ve received from a survey of folks who’ve received books from us! These books can mean so much to those who receive them. Volunteer with us or donate today!

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for our packathon today! We still have lots of requests for books to send! Volunteer or donate today to help us continue providing books to people in prison!

Join us next Thursday, September 4th from 5-8pm for Dollar Stroll! We will have $1 books or for $3, you can fill a bag with books! See you there! #DollarStroll #WestPhilly #Books

Books like Law Dictionaries and the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook help people in prison become jailhouse lawyers! But it’s important that any law books we receive are up to date. Donate or volunteer with us today to help empower people in prison to advocate for themselves in the law system!

Donate role playing game guides or come volunteer with us so we can continue to support people in prison!

Books teaching vocational skills are very commonly requested, so that people in prison can find employment. If you have any books like these to spare, please consider donating!

Donate or volunteer with us so we can continue to provide for people in prison!

We’ve got lots of requests to fulfill! Come volunteer with us or organize a group volunteer session to help us send out books! More info on how to volunteer here; www.booksthroughbars.org/volunteer

Last year, we sent a survey to our top requesters to receive their feedback. Many folks agreed to share their experiences here. We’ll be posting these weekly, stay tuned to hear their stories.

Thanks so much to Molly’s Books & Records for hosting a book drive for us along with their documentary screening this week! Tom Haney, President of BTB, was glad to attend the event!

We received this beautiful art recently from a person in prison! We love receiving art and proudly display many pieces on our walls! Stop by to donate books we need or volunteer to see them!

The Drexel Criminal Justice Society joined us for a volunteer session last weekend! Thanks so much!

Books Through Bars president Tom Haney examines some of the many beautiful pieces of envelope art we have received over the years!

Support independent bookstores AND people in prison by buying books from our bookshop.org wishlists! bookshop.org/wishlists/ae...

STARTING TODAY for the next two weeks, every book you buy for us on our bookshop.org wishlists will be matched in dollars by a donor. THIS IS THE BEST TIME TO BUY BOOKS FOR US!! The impact of your donation will be doubled! bookshop.org/wishlists/ae...

Announcing a new wishlist request! We’ve compiled a selection of books about computers, information technology, programming, etc - that we’d love to have! These skills are very helpful for increased job opportunities.

We got a wonderful and generous donation of comics and manga from ‘comix’ enthusiasts who gathered for !Exclamation Point! We are ALWAYS in need of more comics, manga, and anime and we really appreciate this donation!

We were at the zine fest at Clark Park yesterday passing out zines and books! Hope to see you at the next one!

Our newest wishlist is for art books! Please help us send these to people in prison who request them! Sometimes people in prison will send us art that they’ve made which we cherish very much! www.thriftbooks.com/list/share/2... (Link to this and all our other wishlists in bio)

Happy spring equinox! Excited to share that we started a little zine library for our volunteers to read while they’re here! ❤️✨🌸

We want to fill requests as best we can, which means having different kinds of bibles on hand. Can you help us source these specific versions? ✝️📖

BTB regularly receives requests for books of nearly every type of religion. We are thrilled to have a recent donation of 25 English/Arabic language versions of the Qur’an! Thank you to the supporter who donated these, we are sure that they will be cherished by the people who request them! ❤️

Give the gift of music and help a person in prison have access to materials for learning and playing the guitar! This is a frequent request that we often aren’t able to fill! 🎸🎶 (link in bio and here; www.thriftbooks.com/list/share/0... Do you play an instrument? What songs do you like to play?

Ramadan Mubarak! Ramadan begins today at sundown, so we wanted to take this as an opportunity to uplift this article the Pennsylvania Prison Society published during Ramadan last year and educate our followers about this. 🌙

Lots of people in prison love reading anime and manga, and want to learn Japanese! So one of our specially curated ThriftBooks wishlists is for learning Japanese! 🇯🇵 as always, you can also find the links to all of our wishlists in our bio! Find our wishlist here; www.thriftbooks.com/list/share/b...

Today we’re sharing another curated wishlist, this time for books about off-grid living! 🐓☀️🌾 #books #homesteading #wishlist (link also in bio)

All our mystery books are gone! Where did they go? It’s a mystery to us 🤔 Just kidding! We know where they went - to people in prison who we hope are enjoying all the twists and turns in these stories. 🕵️

One of Trump’s first executive orders was an attack on protections for trans people in prison, and across the country, state laws are being passed which harm trans inmates. In both federal and state prison, trans people in prison are being denied care and dignity even more than before. 📰 🚨

One of our wonderful volunteers spent some time curating a few wishlists to help us fill needs for highly requested (but often unavailable) books! The first wishlist that we are sharing is books about mental health!