Most authors — lifelong users of libraries themselves, in many cases — welcome library checkouts of their books. Maskot via Getty Images If you check out a book from the library, are you hurting an ...

I love reading books. I love shopping at small, local bookstores with worn wooden floors and bespectacled clerks. I believe in buying a book to support an author I like. But I also check a lot of ...

Seems everyone's making lists and checking them twice right about now. In that spirit of organizational efficiency, here are lists of books: best-sellers, award-winners and even the president's recent ...