Books Through Bars is an American organization that works to provide quality reading material to prisoners in Pennsylvania and surrounding states.

Members of New Society Publishers of Philadelphia founded Books Through Bars in 1990.

[5] There are approximately 30 similar, but unaffiliated, books to prisoners organizations throughout the United States.

Because prisoners in American prisons are not able to receive books from sources other than recognized publishers, bookstores, or other legitimate distributors, those without the financial resources to buy books have very limited access to them.

It also sponsors regular public events relating to issues such as human rights, the war on drugs, and prison reform.