From Temecula to Pasadena, people are asking me how to get rid of books. This is because I wrote about my long-overdue purge of my own shelves, which resulted in 250 books filling 10 boxes on my living room floor. “So, where did you take your boxes of perfectly good books? I have thousands,” says Cynthia Tuell of Upland. “Marie Kondo doesn’t seem to mind throwing lots of stuff away but I believe we need to reduce, reuse, recycle. Where did you recycle your books?”

The decision in New York City set off a wave of returns, accompanied by bashful notes of apology and gratitude.

Two books owned by Charles Darwin are left outside Cambridge University library in a pink gift bag.

From graphic novels to fiction to autobiographies, there seems to be a war on books, with bans and challenges becoming increasingly more common.

The libraries are meant to provide beauty, access to literature and cultivate a community space in prisons nationwide.

Furries are helping fund a library after a mayor tried to ban books containing “homosexual materials.”

Staff librarians who found it agreed that as unconventional as it was, Dillon’s book met the criteria for the collection.

Yanna McGraw has a unique role at the Indianapolis Public Library. She’s the library’s first full-time social worker – one of about a dozen employed by libraries across the Midwest. The library hired McGraw because it was seeing more patrons dealing with complex issues. She’s only been on the job for four months, but McGraw has already worked with library guests dealing with issues like: housing insecurity, difficulty accessing federal stimulus money and challenges finding mental health services.

A children's book checked out from the Boise, Idaho, public library in 1910 vanished for 111 years only to be returned anonymously, library officials said.

There are thousands of abandoned big box stores sitting empty all over America, including hundreds of former Walmart stores. With each store taking up enough space for 2.5 football fields, Walmart’s use of more than 698 million square feet of land in the U.S. is one of its biggest environmental impacts. But at least one of those buildings has been transformed into something arguably much more useful: the nation’s largest library.

The oldest known sample of using the alphabet to structure information can be seen in the Great Library of Alexandria and is presumed to be created by Zenodotus.

Unread books are as powerful as the ones we read. An antilibrary is a private collection of unread books capturing the vastness of the unknown.

“I think that says a great deal about how much we as a society value the written word,” a shocked librarian said.

Fiction author, sourdough bread lover, and former Twitter executive Robin Sloan is answering a question you may have never thought to ask: which New York Times Best Sellers list ebooks are in the highest demand in the US public library system?

Home workers are bulk buying books to enhance their video-calling backgrounds, a rental firm claims.

One reason why the steel magnate spent much of his fortune building libraries is that he saw handing large fortunes to the next generation as a waste of money.

When £2.5m of rare books were stolen in an audacious heist at Feltham in 2017, police wondered, what’s the story? By Mark Wilding

For decades, often using a fake identity, he stole antique maps worth thousands of dollars each.

For nearly 40 years, the American Library Association (ALA) has used the last week in September to celebrate Banned Books Week. The annual event was launched in the 1980s during a time of increased challenges and organized protests against books. The ALA and other groups have been promoting the event each year to celebrate the freedom to read. This year, Banned Book Week runs from Monday, Sept. 27 through Oct. 3.

Letters: Libraries are a profound resource that can use bibliotherapy to support people with fragile mental health, writes John Duffy