200 Years of Jane Austen (68 books)

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"Sense and Sensibility" was published in 1811. Today, Jane Austen is one of the english language's best-loved authors, and with good cause. 200 years after she was published for the first time, she continues to inspire new stories. Here are a few you may enjoy, and don't forget the original books that started it all, available free in our public domain section.

 

Death Comes to Pemberley

by P.D. James

A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional...


Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners

by Josephine Ross

Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners is a light-hearted, insightful handbook written as if intended for her original Regency Era readers, and illustrated throughout with beautiful watercolors. When Anna, Jane...


The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility

by Natalie Tyler

What's so friendly about Jane Austen?

Every generation rediscovers Jane Austen with a renewed enthusiasm for her timeless novels. In recent years, Austen has become more popular than ever as nearly every one...


Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household...

A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter

by William Deresiewicz

Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant graduate student, he never thought Austen would have anything to offer him. Then he read Emma—and everything changed....


Voices from the World of Jane Austen

by Malcolm Day

A fascinating collection of first-hand accounts of life in the time of Jane Austen (1775-1817), showing how social standing and etiquette were prime considerations of the period, and revealing the stark contrast...


Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Elinor and Marianne are two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John...

Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure

by Campbell Webster, Emma

View our feature on Austen-inspired books and special content.

Bringing together Jane Austen's most beloved characters and storylines-a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly...


The Jane Austen Book Club

by Karen Joy Fowler

In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin,

unsuitable arrangements become suitable,...


The Heroine's Bookshelf

by Erin Blakemore

An exploration of classic heroines and their equally admirable authors, The Heroine's Bookshelf shows today's women how to tap into their inner strengths and live life with intelligence and grace.

Jo March, Scarlett...


Persuasion

by Jane Austen

The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.

Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict: A Novel

by Laurie Viera Rigler

Read Laurie Viera Rigler's posts on the Penguin Blog.

The time-bending parallel tale to the national bestseller Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

In Laurie Viera Rigler's first novel, Confessions of a Jane...


Emma

by Jane Austen

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever,...

Dear Jane Austen

by Patrice Hannon

Advice delivered with sense and sensibility just in time for the major motion picture Becoming Jane

Women have looked to Jane Austen's heroines as models of appropriate behavior for nearly two centuries. Who...


Dearest Cousin Jane: A Jane Austen Novel

by Jill Pitkeathley

In Dearest Cousin Jane, an enchanting new novel that draws on historical fact, Jill Pitkeathley paints a luminous portrait of the true-life cousin of a literary legend—from her flirtatious younger years to...


Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. She gradually falls...

My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park

by Cindy Jones

Lily has squeezed herself into undersized relationships all her life, hoping one might grow as large as those found in the Jane Austen novels she loves. But lately her world is running out of places for her...


Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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...

According To Jane

by Marilyn Brant

In Marilyn Brant's smart, wildly inventive debut, one woman in search of herself receives advice from the ultimate expert in matters of the heart. . .

It begins one day in sophomore English class, just as Ellie...


Lady Susan

by Jane Austen

Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best...

Writing Jane Austen: A Novel

by Elizabeth Aston

Presenting a new series set amid the deadly feuds in England known as the Wars of the Roses

Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets....


Juvenilia – Volume I

by Jane Austen

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”

 

So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen...


Juvenilia – Volume II

by Jane Austen

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred...

Darcy and Anne

by Judith

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Lady Catherine will never find a husband for Anne...


Juvenilia – Volume III

by Jane Austen

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred...

The Annotated Pride and Prejudice: A Revised and Expanded Edition

by Jane Austen & David M. Shapard

This first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with more than 2,300 annotations...


The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas

RITA Best Regency Historical Romance 2011

by Lauren Willig

Despite her dear friend Jane Austen's warning against teaching, Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a girls' school in Bath, just before Christmas. She hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French aristocrats...


Two Histories of England

by Jane Austen & Charles Dickens

In these two forgotten gems of English literature, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens offer delightful, irreverent histories of their native land.

When she was only sixteen years old, Jane Austen composed her bitingly...


An Uncommon Heroine

by Jamie Cox Robertson

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

-Simone de Beauvoir

Literature has provided us with some of the most unforgettable women in history. From wives and mothers to daughters and lovers, these women all have...


Friday Mornings at Nine

by Marilyn Brant

Every woman remembers her firsts: Her first kiss. Her first lover. And her first time contemplating an affair. . .

Each Friday morning at the Indigo Moon Café, Jennifer, Bridget and Tamara meet to swap stories...


The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

by Syrie James

Many rumors abound about a mysterious gentleman said to be the love of Jane's life—finally, the truth may have been found. . . .

What if, hidden in an old attic chest, Jane Austen's memoirs were discovered...


Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart

by Laurel Ann Nattress

Stories by: Lauren Willig • Adriana Trigiani • Jo Beverley • Alexandra Potter • Laurie Viera Rigler • Frank Delaney & Diane Meier • Syrie James • Stephanie Barron • Amanda Grange • Pamela...


101 Things You Didn't Know About Jane Austen

by Patrice Hannon

You've read Emma. You own Pride & Prejudice. You love Sense and Sensibility. But do you know all there is to know about Jane Austen? Find answers to questions such as:

  • Who was the Irishman who stole her heart?...


Wanderlust: A History of Walking

by Rebecca Solnit

Drawing together many histories-of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores-Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities...


More Letters from Pemberley

by Jane Dawkins

To the delight of the many readers who loved Letters from Pemberley, Jane Dawkins's popular continuation of Pride and Prejudice, More Letters from Pemberley continues the story of Elizabeth (Bennet) Darcy's...


Jane and the Damned: A Novel

by Janet Mullany

Jane Austen

Novelist . . . gentlewoman . . .Damned, Fanged, and Dangerous to know.

Aspiring writer Jane Austen knows that respectable young ladies like herself are supposed to shun the Damned—the beautiful,...


Dancing with Mr. Darcy: Stories Inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House Library

by Sarah Waters

An anthology of the winning entries for the Jane Austen Short Story Award

Two hundred years ago, Jane Austen— traumatized by her parents’ decision to give up the rectory in Hampshire where she grew up, and...


Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Other Loves

by Ann Herendeen

For readers who've loved Jane Austen's most popular novel—the inestimable Pride and Prejudice—questions have always remained. What is the real nature of Darcy's intense friendship with Charles Bingley, to...


The Ballad of Gregoire Darcy: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Continues

by Marsha Altman

Revisits the Beloved Characters of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in Marsha Altman's fourth novel

WHIRLWIND OF PEMBERLEY

The comings and goings on their grand estate present endless challenges for Elizabeth...


The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

by Colleen McCullough

Everyone knows the story of Elizabeth and Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. But what about their sister Mary? At the conclusion of Jane Austen's classic novel, Mary, bookish, awkward, and by all accounts,...


The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel

by Elizabeth Aston

Following on the heels of Mr. Darcy's Daughters and The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, Elizabeth Aston delivers an irresistible new novel set in the world of Jane Austen.

After being disowned...


The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy

by Mary Street

Pride and Prejudice told from a delightfully different point of view. "The Holy Grail of P&P sequels." (Austenblog) Originally published in the U.K., Mary Street's ingenious retelling of Jane Austen's classic...


Darcy's Story

by Janet Aylmer

When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude—despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year. But what was Mr. Darcy thinking?...


The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

by Elizabeth Aston

The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy takes readers back into the imagined family of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Their musical daughter Alethea makes a disastrous marriage to a man whose charming...


My Cousin Caroline

Pemberley Chronicles #6

by Rebecca Collins

Sixth in the bestselling Jane Austen sequel series from Australia In this installment of The Pemberley Chronicles series, Mr. Darcy's cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth's cousin Caroline Gardiner take...


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

by Steve Hockensmith & Patrick Arrasmith

Readers will witness the birth of a heroine in Dawn of the Dreadfuls—a thrilling prequel set four years before the horrific events of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. As our story opens, the Bennet sisters...


Harry Potter's Bookshelf: The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures

by John Granger

The millions of Harry Potter fanatics and classic fiction lovers alike won't be able to resist Harry Potter's Bookshelf, a lively romp through the literary traditions embedded in J.K. Rowling's fiction, from...


Captain Wentworth's Diary

by Amanda Grange

The retelling of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion from the point of view of Captain Frederick Wentworth-by the author of Mr. Knightley's Diary.During his shore leave from the Navy, Frederick Wentworth falls in...


The Actor's Book of Monologues for Women

by Various

More than 200 selections from the prose and verse of Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, Isadora Duncan, Anais Nin, Christini Rosetti, Sappho, and others....


Mr. Knightley's Diary

by Amanda Grange

Relive Jane Austen's Emma- from Mr. Knightley's point of view.

Between managing his estate and visiting his brother in London, Mr. Knightley is both exasperated and amused by his irresistibly beautiful, outrageously...


Mr. Darcy's Dream: A Novel

by Elizabeth Aston

From the author of Mr. Darcy's Daughters, the delightful escapades of the Darcy family continue with an enchanting story set at Pride and Prejudice's Pemberley.

When Phoebe, a young niece of Pride and Prejudice's...


A Novel Idea

by Aimee Friedman

Required reading has never been so hot.

Once upon a time there was a Brooklyn hipster named Norah. Unlucky in love, and short on extracurriculars for her college apps, Norah decided to start a book group. She...


Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation

by Regina Jeffers

Vampire Darcy’s Desire presents Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a heart-pounding vampire romance filled with passion and danger.

Tormented by a 200-year-old curse and his fate as a half-human/half-vampire...


Darcy's Temptation: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

by Regina Jeffers

The day Fitzwilliam Darcy marries Elizabeth Bennet, he thinks his life is complete at last. Four months later, even greater joy appears on the horizon when Elizabeth finds out she is pregnant. But it is not...


Sanditon: Jane Austen's Unfinished Masterpiece Completed

by Jane Austen

Had Jane Austen lived to complete Sanditon, it would have been as treasured as her other novels. In the half-finished masterpiece, Austen fashions one of her classic heroines—Charlotte Heywood. The surviving...


Mr. Darcy's Decision: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

by Juliette Shapiro

IN PRIDE & PREJUDICE, JANE AUSTEN brought together one of the most beloved literary couples of all time—Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Now, Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride continues the story of these...


Darcy's Passions: Pride and Prejudice Retold Through His Eyes

by Regina Jeffers

Witty, romantic and insightful, Darcy’s Passions captures the original style and sardonic humor of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice while turning the entire story on its head. Written from the perspective...


Edmund Bertram's Diary

by Amanda Grange

At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund expected, Fanny became his closest confidante and dearest friend. But when the fashionable...


Colonel Brandon's Diary

by Amanda Grange

A vibrant retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Grange's sweeping epic breathes new life into another of Austen's best-loved novels.

At the age of eighteen, James Brandon's world is shattered when the girl he...


Match for Mary Bennet

by Ward O.S.F.

Written by a Franciscan nun, this is a sympathetic tale of the middle Bennet sister from Pride and Prejudice. Pious Mary Bennet tries to do her duty in the world as she thinks God envisions it.


In the Arms of Mr. Darcy

by Sharon Lathan

Sweet and romantic Pride and Prejudice continuation from bestselling author with a growing audience

This lushly romantic and historically fascinating story is filled with lavish details of Regency customs and...


Recollections of Rosings

Pemberley Chronicles #8

by Rebecca Collins

A disaster at Rosings unearths long-hidden secrets

"Many surprises and turns in the lives of our favorite characters leave you riveted to each page."

-Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence O

Sisters...


The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy

by Mary Street

In Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Austen created the most intriguing hero of all time. Yet Pride and Prejudice is Elizabeth Bennet’s story, which reveals little of Darcy’s innermost thoughts. Now, in The Confession...


I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend

Jane Austen #1

by Cora Harrison

Based on real events, I WAS JANE AUSTEN'S BEST FRIEND is the secret diary of Jenny Cooper, Jane Austen's teenage friend and confidante. Their evenings are a blur of beautiful dresses, balls, gossip and romance;...


Me and Mr. Darcy: A Novel

by Alexandra Potter

Dreams come true in this hilarious, feel-good fairy tale about life, love, and dating literature’s most eligible bachelor!

After a string of disastrous dates, Emily Albright decides she’s had it with modern-day...


Bespelling Jane Austen

by Mary Balogh, Colleen Gleason & Susan Krinard

ALMOST PERSUADED

In this Regency tale of Robert and Jane, New York Times bestselling author MARY BALOGH brings together former lovers who have seen beyond their past mistakes, and are determined to be together...


Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

by Laurie Viera Rigler

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...


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