Nontoxic novels, poetry, plays (Ann Arbor Northwest Side)

Photos are only very small portion of available books! We have hundreds of these wonderful books for nontoxic homes where they will be appreciated!

Books are easily contaminated with the increasingly toxic chemicals found in everyday products for things like laundry, general cleaning, air "freshening," lawn care, and body care. These can cause all sorts of health problems, many of which can go undetected for a long time. If your household uses conventional products, getting low-toxin books won't do much good, because the toxins from the products will soon get into the paper. Since books cannot be washed, even "a little" contamination usually means that they are contaminated permanently.

Whether or not you are chemically sensitive, if your household uses only non-toxic products and are committed to working to keep the books usable for everyone, please don't be shy about taking as many as you want! In messaging with your interest, please indicate that you are specifically seeking low-toxin books for this purpose.

Currently divided into sections – each section contains many more than the examples given! Please indicate what genres you would be interested in, and then we will provide a more specific list of titles for you to select from!

Old “classic” novels – authors such as Cao Xuiqin, Geoffrey Chaucer, Dante Alighieri, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Virginia Woolf (as late as Carson McCullers), & many many more

Modern novels – authors such as Anissa Gray, Ursula Hegi, James Herriot, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Morrison, Abraham Verghese, Alice Walker, & many many more

Plays – authors such as Lorraine Hansberry, Molière, Thornton Wilder, & many more

Short stories – authors such as Uwem Akpan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bharati Mukherjee, & many more

Poetry -- authors such as Coleridge, Milton, Pope, Shelley, & many more