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 May 27, 2025
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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.

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Sense and sensibility
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
In nineteenth-century England, two sisters are drawn into unhappy romances despite the cool judgment of one and the emotional intensity of the other.

April 25th meeting.

Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
At the center of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park is Fanny Price, the classic "poor cousin" who has been brought to live with the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired...

May 23rd meeting

Emma
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Beautiful, clever, rich - and single -...

June 27th meeting

Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no...

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
Introduction by Anna Quindlen * Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and...

September 26th meeting.

Mr. Darcy takes a wife pride and prejudice continues
Berdoll, Linda.
Ebook
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: The sexiest Austen-inspired novel that has readers talking You thought Bridgerton was steamy? Well hold on to your bonnets! This sexy, epic, hilarious, and romantic sequel to Pride and Prejudice goes far beyond Jane Austen fanfiction to give the curious...

Librarian's pick - a steamy look at Darcy & Elizabeth's marriage.

Pride and prejudice
Firth, Colin
DVD
Jane Austen's classic novel is brought to the screen once again in this intelligent and witty romantic drama. Elizabeth Bennett (Jennifer Ehle) is one of five sisters living on a British country estate in the 1800s. At a time and place in which matrimony is considered a woman's logical goal in life,...

Librarian's pick - best adaptation of the book.

Mansfield Park
Davidtz, Embeth, 1966-
DVD
Based on Jane Austen's classic novel. Fanny Price, a poor rural girl, is sent to live at Mansfield Park with her rich and privileged relations.
Sense and sensibility
Lee, Ang, 1954-
DVD
Bringing Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility to the screen was a labor of love for writer/actress Emma Thompson. Featuring the complete award-winning script, Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay & Diaries also showcases Thompson's unreserved, often hilarious diaries that capture the unique...
Pride and prejudice and zombies
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
The New York Times best seller is now a major motion picture starring Lily James and Sam Riley, with Matt Smith, Charles Dance, and Lena Headey.    This movie tie-in edition features sixteen pages of color stills from the film, a reading group...

Librarian's Pick - a fun read!

Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Introduction by Anna Quindlen * Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and...
Sense & sensibility
Davies, Andrew, 1936-
DVD
Jane Austen's celebrated and most romantic novel of two devoted sisters is brought to life in this classic BBC production and adapted for the screen by acclaimed writer Andrew Davies. Added bonus: Miss Austen Regrets, a Jane Austen biopic.
Austenland : a novel
Hale, Shannon.
Paper Book
For readers of Waiting for Tom Hanks and Well Met, a "gloriously satisfying" (Glamour) romantic comedy set at a Jane Austen fantasy resort from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale. Now a major motion picture starring Keri Russell and produced by Stephenie Meyer....
Confessions of a Jane Austen addict [a novel]
Rigler, Laurie Viera.
Digital file
In this Jane Austen-inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern L.A. girl wakes up as an Englishwoman in Austen's time.
Emma a modern retelling
Alexander McCall Smith
Paper Book
The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen's beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling.   The summer after university, Emma Woodhouse returns home to the village of Highbury...
Emma
McGrath, Douglas
DVD
Emma brings to life Jane Austen's novel about a woman who makes it her goal to 'fix' the lives of all her friends while ignoring her own problems.
Pemberley, or, Pride and prejudice continued
Emma Tennant
Paper Book
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a son and heir... Thus begins Emma Tennant's inspired sequel to Jane Austen's most beloved novel, Pride and Prejudice. With wit and style and genuine insight into character,...
Persuasion
Root, Amanda
DVD
Adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about lost and found love. Anne is persuaded to reject a proposition of marriage from the man she loves do to his lack of fortune. Years later she is made the offer again.
Becoming Jane
Broadbent, Graham
DVD
Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James Cromwell), a minister who looks after a...
Pride and prejudice
Leonard, Robert Z., 1889-1968
DVD
Mr. Darcy sets all fair maidens' hearts aflutter, except for that of Elizabeth Bennett. Based on the 1813 novel by Jane Austen.
Pride & prejudice
Wright, Joe, 1971 or 2-
DVD
Elizabeth Bennet, who upon meeting the handsome Mr. Darcy, believes him to be the last man on earth she could ever marry. But as their lives become intertwined, she finds herself captivated by the very man she swore to loathe for all eternity.
Sense and sensibility and sea monsters
Winters, Ben H.
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller An uproarious tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem inspired by the classic Jane Austen novel-from the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original...
Two shall become one Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy : Pride and prejudice continues
Lathan, Sharon.
Ebook
Sharon Lathan presents Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy, A fascinating portrait of a timeless, consuming love -- and the sweetest, most romantic Jane Austen sequel. It's Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding day, and the journey is just beginning as Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice characters...
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