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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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 its marvelously perceptive portrayal of two young lovestruck women, Sense and Sensibility proves that Jane Austen's novels, along with their perfection of form and tone, are full of strong feeling. With a new introduction by Sandra Cisneros. Its two...

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
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
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 is a genius, and Northanger Abbey is hugely underrated' Martin Amis With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's novels. It tells the story of young, impressionable...

August 15th meeting.

Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' Independent With its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane...

September 26th meeting.

Jane Austen's Pride and prejudice
Firth, Colin
DVD
JANE AUSTEN'S CLASSIC NOVEL ABOUT THE PREJUDICE THAT OCCURRED BETWEEN THE 19TH CENTURY CLASSES AND THE PRIDE WHICH WOULD KEEP LOVERS APART.

Librarian's pick - best adaptation of the book.

Pride
Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Paper Book
In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous...
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 : the classic Regency romance -- now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem! the deluxe heirloom edition
Grahame-Smith, Seth.
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 deluxe heirloom edition includes a new preface by coauthor Seth Grahame-Smith, thirteen oil...

Librarian's Pick - a fun read!

Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' Independent With its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane...
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
Seymour, Jane.
DVD
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
Laurie Viera Rigler
Paper Book
Read Laurie Viera Rigler's posts on the Penguin Blog. After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England....
Emmett
Lev AC Rosen
Paper Book
★ "A smoothly written, highly readable--no, make that irresistible romance...There is not a false note in this expert effort, and Emmett is a character to treasure." -Booklist, starred review ★ "An optimistic read that...

Emma inspired.

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.
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...
Becoming Jane Austen a life
Jon Spence
Paper Book
Jon Spence's fascinating biography of Jane Austen paints an intimate portrait of the much-loved novelist. Spence's meticulous research has, perhaps most notably, uncovered evidence that Austen and the charming young Irishman Tom Lefroy fell in love at the age of twenty and that the relationship...

Highly recommended Jane Austen biography.

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...
Bride & prejudice
Nayar, Deepak.
DVD
Based on Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, with a Bollywood twist. In an Indian village, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four daughters. Second sister Lalita meets American Will Darcy - is it love?
Flirting with Pride & prejudice : fresh perspectives on the original chick-lit masterpiece
Crusie, Jennifer.
Paper Book
One of fiction's most well-loved novels, this 19th-century classic continues to capture the hearts of contemporary readers with its notions of marriage, dating, and romance. Leading authors in the area of women's literature and romance contribute to this fresh collection of essays on everything from...
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