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
Ebook
Torn between reason and passion, obligation and impulse, two sisters search for love in eighteenth-century England Although they are as close as sisters can be, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood could not be more different. Elinor is reasonable beyond her nineteen years; Marianne...

April 25th meeting.

Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Ebook
In recent years, Mansfield Park has come to be regarded as Austen's most controversial novel. It was published in two editions in her lifetime and here the 1814 and 1816 texts are fully collated for the first time. All the variants are included on the page, allowing readers to see the differences...

May 23rd meeting

Emma
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Emma is Austen's most technically accomplished novel, with a hidden plot, the full implications of which are only revealed by a second reading. It is here presented for the first time with a full scholarly apparatus. The text retains the spelling and the punctuation of the first edition of 1816,...

June 27th meeting

Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Ebook
Now a Netflix film and a selection of the TikTok Book Club--Jane Austen's classic novel about a second chance at love in nineteenth-century England.   Anne Elliot is a perfect catch. Born to a landed family, she's observant and intelligent. When Anne came of age, she...

July 28th meeting

Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Ebook
A young woman comes of age and realizes that life is not a Gothic novel. A timeless classic, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a coming-of-age story and a parody of the Gothic novels of the nineteenth century. Catherine Morland is destined to be the heroine of her own...

August 15th meeting.

Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Ebook
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane meets their new neighbor, Mr. Bingley, but her sister Elizabeth is most offended by...

September 26th meeting.


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