Jane Austen Book Club

Celebrating Jane Austen's 250 Anniversary by reading her six most popular titles. Included in the list are recommended reads of Jane Austen inspired fiction.

Updated April 15, 2025
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Sense and sensibility
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is...

April 25th meeting.

Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with...

May 23rd meeting

Emma
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage Now a major motion picture starring Anya Taylor-Joy Beautiful, clever, rich-and single-Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage....

June 27th meeting

Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Jane Austen's last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a Cinderella love story At twenty--seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick...

July 28th meeting

Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Jane Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey-published posthumously in 1818-tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her...

August 15th meeting.

Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister...

September 26th meeting.

Ladies of the house : a novel
Edmonson, Lauren
Paper Book
Set in high-society Georgetown, an irresistible family drama about two sisters and the public scandal that just may lead them to rewrite the rules... "A stellar novel that celebrates sisterhood and the way women can step out of flawed men's shadows. I delighted in every...

Sense & Sensibility inspired.


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