Books 4 Charity
Need a Book?
Welcome to the newest bookshop in town.
Relative to most nations around the world, Malta enjoys a high literacy rate of 95%. At YMCA Malta, we cherish access to knowledge as the foremost stimulus for impactful social change.
With this ethos in mind, we have created an online space where second-hand books of all genres can be easily purchased by members of the community.
Below you will find an assortment of beloved titles available for sale. New titles are added weekly with all proceeds going directly to fundraising our community wellbeing programmes.
How it works.
- Browse our selection below. Prices are colour-coded based on the sticker on each book and the corresponding ‘Price Key’.
- Click the ‘Order’ button. You will be directed to an order form.
- Fill in the order form.
- Your order will be processed by our staff. You will receive a confirmation when it is ready for pick up.
- Pick up your order from our office in Valletta and pay cash.
- Hang a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign on your door and sink into your reading.
Price Key.
€1.00 – Blue
€1.50 – Orange
€2.50 – Grey
€3.00 – Green
€5.00 – Black
POA – White
(please contact us here to request price for white labels)
Adult Fiction
Thriller/Adventure
Romance
Early Readers
Young Adult
Foreign Language
Order your books
Did you know?
- Dante worked on his masterpiece the Divine Comedy for 14 years.
- Maya Angelou spoke six languages – French, English, Arabic, Italian, Spanish and a Ghanan dialect.
- Jane Austen published her work anonymously and was not known as the author of her books until after her death.
- Aldous Huxley suffered from severe vision impairment and typed his first novel by touch.
- Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926 and later claimed she had no memory of who she had been before.
- George Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair.