New British Library site ranges from medieval book Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke to manuscripts by Lewis Carroll and Jacqueline Wilson

Do you love to read but want to do so without breaking the bank? These free books apps will get you started for cheap (or free).

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the New York Public Library has released a love letter to books. Continuing the celebration of the institution’s 125th anniversary, the library culled together a list of 125 beloved books, chosen by librarians within the NYPL system. The list, collected under “125 Books We Love,” brings together titles of adult literature, spanning 12 forms and genre categories.

Bookshop.org is looking to generate revenue for independent book stores by moving sales, and affiliate links, away from Amazon and toward independent bookstores.

Before the tales about Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter, people wrote bawdy or gross stories about "Gulliver’s Travels."

Roughly a quarter of American adults say they haven’t read a book in the past year. Who are these non-book readers?

The publicity-shy Mr. Portis earned a modest but devoted readership and accolades as America’s “least-known great writer.”

November of 2008. I had more hair, a flip phone, and absolutely no idea what was coming. Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings.

After closing up shop that day, there was fear the bookstore might have to close permanently. But overnight, something unexpected happened.

Amazon knows more than just what books I’ve read and when – it knows which parts of them I liked the most

‘The Last Man’ was derided in its time for being too grim, but today it would fit in with a growing genre of dystopian fiction

The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallow…

Thriller writer’s 1981 book The Eyes of Darkness features a Chinese lab in Wuhan that makes a virus to be used as a biological weapon. Civilians contract it and become terribly ill. He wasn’t prophesying anything, was he?

Twitter has taken umbrage at my habit of chopping books into smaller units. But isn’t the real violence against culture happening elsewhere?

The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallowed of American institutions: the public library.

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As the New Year’s festivities wound down a lot of science and science fiction fans toasted the 100th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Asimov, one of the titans of the profession. Asimov wrote or edited over 500 books and reams of articles on everything ranging from science, psychology, astronomy, biochemistry (which he taught - on and off - at the Boston University School of Medicine) and, of course, science fiction. Even non-SF fans have probably heard of his widely acclaimed Foundation series of books and his three rules of robotics.

Long-dead thinkers from Socrates to Nietzsche are the latest hot property when it comes to self-help books. But can they really make effective gurus, asks Neil Armstrong.

Space opera fantasy! Wow! Humanity joining the intergalactic community has been a disaster for Bala, the magical creatures of the galaxy: they’ve been exploited, enslaved and ground down for parts. Now the Century Summit is approaching, when humans will be judged by godlike aliens.

You either love or despise the smell of wrinkled, weathered pages in well-used books, but scientists have discovered a way to harness that odor to help preserve rare texts.