From Romantic odes to the autumns depicted in a thousand novels and plays, the fall season has enriched literature with multiple meanings.

Got friends? Got reading friends who could suggest the next book you’ll probably enjoy? Goodreads has good news for you.

Love ’em or snub ’em, preview trailers are now integrated into many authors’ promotional routines. Here are five of the latest.

You know Samuel Clemens got his pen name, Mark Twain, from his job as a riverboat pilot. What were the former occupations of the writers in this quiz?

Is your birthday in September? Scroll down the list to find out which authors were born on the same date.

August 30 marks the birthday of Frankenstein’s creator, who wrote tirelessly and traveled extensively, but lived a solitary life.

School is one of the most amusing, exciting and dangerous places in fiction. Test your knowledge of stories set on literature’s campuses.

Paul and Anne-Marie´s neighbor, Peggy, seems a melancholy soul until a trip south revives her interest in tennis. After her return, Paul finds himself becoming her partner in a social pas de deux – a sort of Ginger and Fred number – in this original story by John Joyce.

Most of us enjoy literary fiction in the form of novels and short stories. Learn about drama – the form that brings fiction to life.

With 59 days as Amazon’s best-seller and its film adaptation certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, this was one of the highlights of Summer 2011.