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 ...

Books are the closest thing to a portal to another world. If you're trying to up your reading goals this year, popular books written by the best literary minds are great to have on your bookshelves.

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