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
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Sense and Sensibility . Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desires a man who is promised to another woman. Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the epitome of sensibility...

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
An Everyman's Library edition of Jane Austen's revolutionary and inspiring novel, which is once again a major motion picture. Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse is comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that she has both the understanding...

June 27th meeting

Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot followed the advice of Lady Russell, her only true friend, and broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. When Anne and the newly wealthy Captain Wentworth cross paths years later, it is clear that he has neither forgotten--nor...

July 28th meeting

Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Northanger Abbey is a perfectly aimed literary parody that is also a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naïve but sweetly appealing...

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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