Sendb00ks is an online platform and registered cultural association.
We discuss our favourite books with artists and share the conversations.
Each month we commission an artist to design a postcard that we slip within the pages of one of their favourite books. We then distribute around two hundred copies worldwide to our subscribers. Occasionally the artist designs a detachable sleeve which we wrap around the book, rewriting the blurb to situation the novel in the present day. These are always personalised with hand-written notes and hand wrapped in Paris with recycled brown paper.
We discuss our favourite books with artists and share the conversations.
Each month we commission an artist to design a postcard that we slip within the pages of one of their favourite books. We then distribute around two hundred copies worldwide to our subscribers. Occasionally the artist designs a detachable sleeve which we wrap around the book, rewriting the blurb to situation the novel in the present day. These are always personalised with hand-written notes and hand wrapped in Paris with recycled brown paper.
We want to know what books are on your shelves and bedroom floors, which books changed your lives and which books you go back to every night. We think that the conversations surrounding literature should always be open and accessible to everybody wherever they live and whatever their education.
Sendb00ks is non profit and we work in less inspiring places to keep this cool project going so donations and books are appreciated.
Delivery is worldwide and swift. Sharing is encouraged
To join our mailing list, make a suggestion or to discuss books with us please email contact@sendb00ks.com
Author's that we have sent and created content about include James Baldwin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tracey Emin, Toni Morrison, Jean Rhys, Anais Nin, Audre Lorde, Maggie Nelson, Virginia Woolf, Olga Tokarczuk, Anne Carson, Dostoevsky, John Steinbeck, Clarice Lispector, and Miranda July among others.
These books have been chosen by readers such as Jack Belgrove, Lexi Smith, Tristan Pigott, Sara Rabin, Tali Lennox, Elizaveta Porodina, Ana Segovia, Jade Montserrat, Joshua Perkins, Joe Cruz, Jan Melka, Emma Swearenging, Bella Newman and more.
Collaborations include Apartmento Magazine, Casa Na Bolom in Mexico, Mörel Books in London and Yvon Lambert Bookshop in Paris where we hosted our first event and curated a shelf in 2020.
In 2021 we published our first book, Arigatou Goza y Mas written by Fernanda Ballesteros.
In December 2021 we launched a shelf at Casa Bosques in Mexico City.
Stockists
Yvon Lambert - Paris
Motto Books - Berlin
She Said Books - Berlin
Casa Bosques - Mexico City
The project was founded by Gemma Janes in 2017 and is now run by Gemma Janes, Marlene Klann and Katie Brown.
The Happy Reader (print)
The High Low Podcast (22:15)
The Sunday Times