Freebird Books

Freebird Books is a used bookstore on the Brooklyn waterfront specializing in the history and culture of New York City.  We also host NYC Books Through Bars, an all volunteer collective which helps prisoners nationwide get access to the written word.

Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Up in the Old Hotel
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New York Essentials

Are Prisons Obsolete?
I'll Fly Away
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence
A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Partial Justice: Women, Prisons and Social Control
Assata: An Autobiography
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California Volume 21
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom
The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own.
Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist) Native Son The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Albert Woodfox's book recommendations

Alif the Unseen
Lakota Woman
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
The Stonewall Reader
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Black Sun Rising / La Corazonada: A Novel / Una Novela
Bloodchild and Other Stories
Howard Zinn on History
The New Huey P. Newton Reader
Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
They Called Us Enemy
March: Book One
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Binti
Flight to Canada Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica Middle Passage
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Victor LaValle and Mat Johnson recommendations

The Light Pirate: GMA Book Club Selection Middlegame How High We Go in the Dark
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The Brooklyn Post-Apocalyptic Book Club