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The Garden: Abolitionist Bookstore & Community Well

The Garden is an abolitionist bookstore and community well operating out of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. We exist to reignite the collective imagination of our neighborhood in service of Black liberation. Below you'll find our curated booklists. 

 

Whether you purchase something from our list or something else from the website, 30% of the proceeds will be returned to The Garden to support our inventory and programming! 

Abolition 101 VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition
Making Abolitionist Worlds: Proposals for a World on Fire
Abolishing Carceral Society
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Understanding the Criminal Punishment System VIEW LIST (16 BOOKS)
Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Incarceration Nation
The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice
Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Redemption
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing Californiavolume 21
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)

VIEW ALL 16 BOOKS

Freedom from the Criminal Punishment System VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
Contesting Carceral Logic
Seeding Better Futures (Transformative Justice) VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
Before Wakanda, was Oakland (The Black Panthers) VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
Historical & Contemporary Fiction VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
Lightseekers
How Beautiful We Were
Real Life
A Girl Is a Body of Water
The Rib King
Patsy
The Prophets
Homegoing
Poetry is Not a Luxury VIEW LIST (29 BOOKS)
If They Come for Us: Poems
1919
Hemming the Water
Citizen: An American Lyric
Life on Mars
Selected Poems
Mercurochrome
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
Electric Arches
Magical Negro
A Fortune for Your Disaster
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Wind in a Box

VIEW ALL 29 BOOKS

Black Futures (Liberation in Fantasy/Science Fiction) VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
Son of the Storm
War Girls
Brown Girl in the Ring
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
The City We Became
Who Fears Death
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories
Riot Baby
Jesus is an Abolitionist (Christian Case for Abolition) VIEW LIST (4 BOOKS)
The Fall of the Prison: Biblical Perspectives on Prison Abolition
Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons
A Black Theology of Liberation: 50th Anniversary Edition
Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores
To Be Remembered (Black Memoir & Autobiography) VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Black Boy [Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition]
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Negroland: A Memoir
Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Soul on Ice
Just as I Am: A Memoir
Between the World and Me
The Fire Next Time
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin

VIEW ALL 17 BOOKS

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