The Hiroshima Library is always adding to its collection, including through donations made by individuals, publishers, and institutions. The library is always seeking/accepting donations of books, magazines, pamphlets, zines, ephemera, movies (VHS, DVD), audio records (vinyl, cassettes, CDs), in any condition (falling apart to new).
If you are interested in donating, contact brandonshimoda@gmail.com.
Books and other materials have been donated to the library by University of Alabama Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Arkansas Press, Beacon Press, Coffee House Press, University Press of Colorado, Cornell University Press, The Criterion Collection, Deep Vellum/Dalkey Archive, Dramatic Publishing, Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics Books, Fordham University Press, Fortress Press, University of Georgia Press, Grove Atlantic, Harvard University Press, Haymarket Books, Les Figues Press, University of Massachusetts Press, McFarland & Publishing, Inc., University of Michigan Press, Milkweed Editions, University of Minnesota Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Nevada Press, NeWest Press, NYU Press, OR Books, Pluto Press, Princeton University Press, elin o'Hara slavick, Southwest Studies at Colorado College, SUNY Press, University of Texas Press, ThingsAsian Press, Tuttle Publishing, The University of Utah Press, Verso Books, University Press of Virginia.
We are also seeking the following books:
Atsuhiro Ozaki, The Song of Hiroshima
Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory
Chong Ki-Sheok, Black Flower in the Sky: Poems of a Korean Bridegroom in Hiroshima
Dean W. Kohlhoff, Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska
Eiichiro Ochiai, Hiroshima to Fukushima: Biohazards of Radiation
Fujio Hironobu, Truth of Nagasaki
Gabrielle Decamous, Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age
Gavan McCormack, Twice Victims: Koreans at Hiroshima
Greg Mitchell, Atomic Cover-up: Two U.S. Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and the Greatest Movie Never Made
Hiromi Tsuchida, Hiroshima Monument II
Hiroyuki Agawa, The Devil’s Heritage
Hisashi Inoue, The Face of Jizo: A Play
John Auxier, Ichiban: Radiation Dosimetry for the Survivors of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
John O’Brian, Camera Atomica
John Whittier Treat, Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibsuse Masuji
Kikuji Kawada, Chizu (“The Map”)
Kunito Okamura, May the Seven Rivers of Hiroshima Reach the Galaxy
Mandy Conti and David Petersen, Survivors: The A-Bombed Trees of Hiroshima
Mark Klett and William L. Fox, Remembering the Future
Medical Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan, edited by Ashley Oughterson
Melinda Clarke, Waymakers for Peace: Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivors Speak
Michael Light, 100 Suns
Mick Broderick, Hibakusha Cinema: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Nuclear Image in Japanese Film
Mitsukuni Yoshida, Hiroshima and Beyond: A Heritage of Technology
Miyako Ishiuchi, Hiroshima
Monica Brau, The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Occupied Japan
Nagasaki Speaks: A Record of the Atomic Bombing
Naomi Hirahara, Hiroshima Boy
Ran Zwigenberg, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture
Raúl Zurita, The Country of Planks. Tr. from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky
Reiko Tachibana, Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan
Sadako Okuda, A Dimly Burning Wick: Memoir from the Ruins of Hiroshima
Sankichi Tōge, Poems of the Atomic Bomb
Sheila Fugard, Harp Song for Hiroshima
Su-nam Pak, The Other Hiroshima: Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story
Takashi Nagai, ed. We of Nagasaki: The Story of Survivors in an Atomic Wasteland. Trans. Ichiro Shirato and Herbert B. L. Silverman
Takehiko Fukunaga, Shi no shima
The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections, edited by David Lowe, Cassandra Atherton, and Alyson Miller
Tomin Harada, Hiroshima Surgeon
Virginia Moffa Khuri, Hiroshima: Remembering 1945 & 1958
Widows of Hiroshima: The Life Stories of Nineteen Peasant Wives, edited by Mikio Kanda, translated by Taeko Midorikawa
William J. Schull, Song Among the Ruins