Sendb00ks is a publishing project.

Since 2018, we have been discussing our favourite books with artists and sharing the conversations.

Every month or so, we commission an artist to design an artwork to complement their favourite book, wrapping it around as a limited edition detachable sleeve. We then distribute copies to our network of readers. Sometimes, the artist lets us print a poem, short story, or essay that can only be read by those who hold the books physically. For over seven years, we have been hand-wrapping, posting, and signing them in brown recycled paper from our homes.

We want to know what books are on your shelves and bedroom floors - which books changed your life, and which ones you go back to every night. We believe that conversations surrounding literature should always be open and accessible to everybody, wherever they live and whatever their education.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PROJECTS, AND EXHIBITIONS

2026

The Debutant and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington with Tali Lennox, Silver Press & Sendb00ks, Gallery Georgina, Mexico City

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin with Jessica Luosternin, Sendb00ks, Gallery Georgina, Mexico City

SAND by Fernanda Ballesteros, Soho House, Sendb00ks, Mexico City

 

2025

Soft World, Sharp Edges Curated by Charlotte Taylor, Brompton Design District, London

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with Madison Willing, Le Monde Beryl & Sendb00ks, Paris

I Promise you this: I will always look out for you. Estelle Hoy and Rosalind Nashashibi, Sendb00ks & Camden Arts Centre, London

I love you so I give books to you, Vie Projects, Paris

Raw Silk and Uncut Wood, The Plant Magazine, Paris

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Adichie with Okiki Akinfe, Ginny on Frederick, Sendb00ks, London

Women without Men by Sharnush Parsipur with Anousha Payne, Sendb00ks, Paris

Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector with Grace Atkinson, Sendb00ks, Paris

Voices of the Resistance by Batool Abu Akleen, Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana, and Ala’a Obaid with Batool Abu Akleen, Sendb00ks, London

 

2024

Chimera, Around Alina Szapocznikow, curated by Karolina Wisniewska, Fondation Alina Szapocznikow, Warsaw, Poland

Stages by Rachel Kaudernale Buff and Rachel Smith, Sendb00ks, McNally Jackson, New York, USA

What is Beauty? Sendb00ks school with Dr Anitra Lourie, London

 

2023

Read to Me, participatory film with Dani Aphrodite, New York

La Que Sabe, Sainte Anne Galerie, Paris

Works & Days by Bernadette Mayer with Gal Schindler, Sendb00ks, London

Interview with Elena Palumbo Mosca, Apartamento Magazine,

 

2022

The Lover by Marguerite Duras with Marie Hazard, Left Bank Books, New York

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington with Augusta Lardy, Sendb00ks, London

 

2021

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf with Michella Bredahl, Sendb00ks, Paris

Arigatou Goza y Mas by Fernanda Ballesteros, Sendb00ks, Paris

Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with Zora Sicher, Sendb00ks, Mexico

The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi with Berta Blanca Ivanow, Sendb00ks, Paris

Interview with Nathalie de Saint Phalle, Apartamento Magazine issue #28

 

2020

Sendb00ks A Shelf, Yvon Lambert, Paris

A Recipe, Video with Lexie Smith and Yasmine Diba, Sendb00ks, New York

Sula by Toni Morrison with Inés di Folco, Sendb00ks, Paris

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers with Juliette Abitbol, Sendb00ks, Paris

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman with Jan Melka, co-published with Mörel, London

Kew Gardens & The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf with Bella Newman, co-published with Mörel, London

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde with Jade Montserrat, Silver Press & Sendb00ks, Paris

My Mother Laughs by Chantal Akermann with Camille Summers-Vali, Silver Press & Sendb00ks, Paris

Strangeland by Tracey Emin with Zelinda Zanichelli, Sendb00ks, Paris

 

 

 

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Sendb00ks Ltd

Studio HR-241, 150 Hackney Road, London, E2 7QS

 

 

Founder & Creative Director Gemma Janes
Operations Stephany Melnyk stephany@sendb00ks.com