Our needs often change, but the following are books we can always use more of and are always accepting! They must be clean and paperback only.

African History 

African American History

Native American

Adult Coloring Books

Almanacs

Bibles (especially large print)

Bible Dictionaries

Concordances

Nonfiction

LGBTQ

Graphic Novels 

Manga / Anime

Urban Fiction 

Work Out / Fitness 

Current year daily/weekly/monthly planners

Business / Finance / Wealth Building 

Biography – celebrities, famous Black figures 

Dean Koontz

Terri Blackstock

Puzzle Books (Soduko, word search, crosswords) 

Gardening/Homesteading

Dictionaries

Fantasy Novels (we get lots of requests for the Game of Thrones series)

Real Estate 

Skills and Trade Books (plumbing, HVAC, Carpentry Home Building,  etc , anything DIY) 

Cars / Motorcycles 

Music 

Art – how to draw, etc (not books of art) 

Crafts – how to

Foreign Language

Dan Brown

Greg Isles

James Patterson

GED study guides

Self-Help Legal

Law Dictionaries

Sketch Books

Self-Publishing Music and Books

Wicca / Pagan Mythology 

Occult / New Age

Stephen King

Astrology

Paranormal / Conspiracy 

Numerology

Ancient history/ancient civilizations/ religions.

Westerns, all the popular authors:

V C Andrews

Nora Roberts

Anne Rice

Karen Kingsbury

CDL study guides

Zane

Please check our wishlist

You can also support inmates by volunteering (safely, separately) and donating (money or books)

We have a lot of requests for:
• Adult coloring books
• Fantasy novels
• Greg Isles
• Danielle Steele
• James Patterson
• Book on Wicca, spells, and astrology
• Bibles and study bibles
• Horror/paranormal
• Techincal books (heavy machinery, farming, trade skills)
• Manga
• Astrology
• True Crime
• Composition books

We received this drawing, titled, ” A Prisoner’s Point of View,” in a letter today. For folks behind bars, nightmarish scenes aren’t relegated to Halloween. Help us send books to people like this artist by making a donation today.

We’re stoked that volunteering at BHB is part of the curriculum for a “Philosophy of Happiness” class at Millsaps College this semester.

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We are all out of Manga! Can you help? Donations can be dropped off anytime outside 133 Millsaps Ave in Jackson.

Did you know that we are always in need of composition books? We typically buy them at Dollar Tree, but this time of year brings awesome sales! They are currently just 50 cents at Walmart. You can help by donating funds or composition books!

Kelsey saw a bunch of cars parked outside our space today and was asking if he could wash cars. One of our volunteers asked if he could vacuum the inside after they dropped off some books at the thrift store across the street.

“Are you giving those books away? I love books. Can I look through them first?”

We told him about our mission and his eyes got wide. “Oh my God, I just got out of Parchman. I can’t believe I’m meeting you guys!” Kelsey had received books from us on the inside.

Kelsey is starting a car detailing business and is currently at a halfway house. We asked him to pick out all the books he wanted from the shelves. Here’s what he chose.