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
Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly...

April 25th meeting.

Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
This Regency drawing-room comedy follows the development of sweet, honest and courageous Fanny Price from the shy little poor girl into the woman who marries her cousin, the goody-goody clergyman Edmund Bertram. Fanny could be looked upon as almost insufferably good, virtuous and dull, if she were...

May 23rd meeting

Emma
Austen, Jane
Paper Book

June 27th meeting

Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen's final finished work. "There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison." Since Anne Elliot eight years...

July 28th meeting

Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
In this classic novel full of spirit and wit, Jane Austen introduces the delightfully gullible Catherine Morland. Catherine arrives into eighteenth century Bath society bursting with freshness, integrity and a passion for wildly fantastic and macabre Gothic novels. When Henry Tilney invites her to...

August 15th meeting.

Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
One of the most universally loved and admired English novels, Pride and Prejudice was penned as a popular entertainment. But the consummate artistry of Jane Austen (1775-1817) transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English...

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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