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 1775-1817
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 1775-1817
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 1775-1817
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 1775-1817
Paper Book
Of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving--the entrancing story of a second chance at love. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she...

July 28th meeting

Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane 1775-1817
Paper Book
At Northanger Abbey Jane Austen's charmingly imperfect heroine, Catherine Morland, meets all the trappings of gothic horror and imagines the worst. Fortunately she has, at hand, her own fundamental good sense and the irresistible but unsentimental hero, Henry Tilney.

August 15th meeting.

Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane 1775-1817
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. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets...

September 26th meeting.

Mr. Darcy takes a wife Pride and Prejudice continues
Linda Berdoll
Paper Book
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 reader a titillating taste of how it would feel to be Mrs. Darcy. Every woman wants to be Elizabeth Bennet Darcy--beautiful, gracious,...

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

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 1775-1817
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. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets...
Austenland a novel
Shannon Hale
Paper Book
Updated edition with brand new content, including a "behind the scenes" look at the making of Austenland the movie, coming in May 2026! For readers of Waiting for Tom Hanks and Well Met, a "gloriously satisfying" (Glamour) romantic comedy set at...
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....
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,...
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 & 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.
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