Ongoing Book & Media Sale

The Farmington Friends of the Library maintain an ongoing Book Sale at both locations. Drop by and sample the ongoing feast of hidden treasures and bargains!

Sale Prices:

  • Adult hardcover: $2.00
  • Adult paperback: $1.00
  • Mass Market: $0.50
  • Children’s hardcover: $1.00
  • Children’s paperback: $0.50
  • CDs, DVDs, & Vinyl LPs: $1.00
  • Puzzles Under 1000 Pieces: $1.00
  • Puzzles over 1000 Pieces: $1.50
  • Board Games, Gaming Software: $2.00
  • Priced as Marked: Check each item individually

Upcoming Semi-Annual Big Book Sales

The Farmington Friends of the Library hold large semi-annual book sales in the Browsing Room at the FCL Farmington Hills location. All proceeds go to support the Library. Check our event calendar for the next upcoming Big Book Sale!

Donating Items

The Friends accept donations at the FCL Farmington Hills location at 32737 W. 12 Mile Road.

Please bring your donations to the Circulation Desk or come through curbside pickup until 6 p.m. Monday – Saturday and  before 5 p.m. on Sunday. Your items should be neatly stacked in a paper bag or box to help our volunteers keep everything organized!

The Farmington Friends of the Library accept donations of items for their ongoing Friends Book & Media Sale. While we can take many items, we can’t give every book a good home.  Please refer to the following list for more information.

List of Items that the Friends accept:

  • Books in good condition.  No musty, dirty, wet, mildewed/moldy, smelly, or damaged (broken spine, missing pages, ripped, marked-up) books, or any non-book items meeting the above characteristics, will be accepted.
  • Textbooks must be no older than 10 years from current date of donation.
  • Video games for all gaming consoles.
  • Vinyl LPs or 45s.
  • DVDs
  • Hardcover and softcover adult and children’s fiction published within 10 years of current date of donation. Exceptions will be made for popular/rare books.

Items that the Friends do not Accept:

  • No Reader’s Digest, Time-Life, encyclopedia sets, or other tertiary, compiled/condensed material.
  • No audio books on CD or cassette.

Desired Items:

  • Vinyl LPs
  • Anime
  • Manga/Graphic Novels of all ages
  • Books in non-English languages
  • Textbooks under 5 years old
  • Medical and law books under 5 years old
  • Puzzles (with all/most pieces)
  • Board games (with all/most pieces)
  • Gaming cartridges for all gaming systems
  • Very new fiction and nonfiction of all ages in good condition.

We cannot accept old textbooks, older test prep (older than 10 years), magazines, VHS tapes, or books in bad condition/smelly/ripped/mildewed/dusty/yellowed/water-stained.

Books that don’t fit these criteria can be recycled if they are paperbacks, and pages of hardcover books can be recycled. Refer to this page for instructions, or call Farmington Hills offices at (248) 871-2400 or Farmington offices 248-474-5500 for more information on curbside recycling of books.