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The Rolling Library

We offer free books and literacy events to NYC through book fairs, community gatherings, pop-up tables, free libraries, and more. Any money from commissions will go toward installing more little free libraries and filling them with books written by authors of color. 

 

All our curated lists contain books we'd love to have in our libraries—you can order them directly to us at:

 

The Rolling Library 

c/o Astoria Food Pantry

25-82 Steinway Street

Astoria, NY 11103

Book Drive for Rikers Island VIEW LIST (41 BOOKS)
The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Blood in My Eye
A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One
Cuentos en Espanol
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The Fire Next Time
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One): Volume 1
Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book Two): Volume 2
Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three): Volume 3

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Our Little Free Library Favorites VIEW LIST (25 BOOKS)
¡gracias, Omu! (Thank You, Omu!)
Sulwe
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
Zonia's Rain Forest
In My Mosque
I Is for Immigrants
Festival of Colors
Lotería
Twins: A Graphic Novel (Twins #1): Volume 1
Front Desk (Scholastic Gold)
The Best at It
Other Words for Home
Lupe Wong Won't Dance
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
Grown

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The Attica Uprising & Mass Incarceration VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)
Big Black: Stand at Attica
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt
The Attica Turkey Shoot: Carnage, Cover-Up, and the Pursuit of Justice
Flying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike
Life and Death in Rikers Island
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
Letters from Attica: 50th Anniversary Annotated Edition
Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
"Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
Real Cost of Prisons Comix
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
Graphic Novels VIEW LIST (19 BOOKS)
The Black Mage, 1
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery (New Edition)
The Girl Who Married a Skull: And Other African Stories
Big Black: Stand at Attica
Nat Turner
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers
I Am Alfonso Jones
Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence
Bingo Love Volume 1: Jackpot Edition
Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black Historyvolume 2
Monster: A Graphic Novel
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Bttm Fdrs

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Children's Books VIEW LIST (21 BOOKS)
You Be Mommy
Zonia's Rain Forest
Starting Over in Sunset Park
Happy to Be Nappy
CJ's Big Dream
Hair Love
Sofia Valdez, Future Prez
Dream Big, Little One
Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors
Islandborn
Woke Baby
Lola at the Library
Me Llamo Celia/My Name Is Celia: La Vida de Celia Cruz/The Life Of Celia Cruz
Round Is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes
Abuela's Weave

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Middle-Grade and Young Adult VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
You Should See Me in a Crown
The Crossover
Felix Ever After
Clean Getaway
President of the Whole Fifth Grade
The Only Black Girls in Town
President of the Whole Sixth Grade
Booked
Running
American Born Chinese
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
Juliet Takes a Breath
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Take a Hint, Dani Brown
Girl Gone Viral

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You Can't Kill The Revolution VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)
The New Huey P. Newton Reader
Black Panthers Speak
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party
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
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
Assata: An Autobiography
Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
Abolition, Protest, and Black Liberation VIEW LIST (20 BOOKS)
No!: My First Book of Protest
Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution
Migrating to Prison: America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
They Can't Kill Us All: The Story of the Struggle for Black Lives
We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Anniversary)
Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration
Solitary: A Biography (National Book Award Finalist; Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Rise Up! the Art of Protest

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