Chicago Book donation pickups

Want to donate used books, furniture or clothing? Book Driver operates a free book donations pickup in the Chicagoland area. Our quick turnaround time and flexibility make it easy to donate. 

Request a free book donation pickup

We’ll get back to you with a date within one business day. We take used books, DVDs, vinyl records, CD’s, & video games. All books & items in good condition are sold or donated. Donations support:

  • Used book stores and local literacy efforts such as Open Books
  • Friends of the library organizations
  • First Book Chicago
  • Goodwill
  • 20 other Chicago causes, organizations and small businesses

We take large and small book donations in Chicago but each pickup is limited to about ten boxes or about 300 books.  Just let us know if you have more than ten boxes in the notes of the contact form and we will coordinate the pick-up. Please keep boxes to 40 pounds or less (16x12x12).

We are looking for partners to create more drop-off points in Chicago. Contact us with your ideas!

We don’t take:

  • Magazines
  • Coffee table and large folio photography and art books
  • Children’s and kids books unless very good condition
  • Moldy, damaged, excessively notated or soiled condition
  • Encyclopedias
  • Legal books such as West Law
  • Bound journals
  • Cookbooks
  • Corporate training books without an ISBN or just in binders

Not sure if your books qualify, feel free to contact us and ask.

Rare Books

If you have older, more valuable titles, let us know. We may be interested in consigning the books or purchasing them outright. 

Click here to request a pickup today.