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2026 Book Selections & Discussion Dates

  • January 13: Living with Jane Austen by Janet Todd 
  • February 10: The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell 
  • March 10: The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne 
  • April 14:Once Persuaded, Twice Shy by Melodie Edwards 
  • May 12: In the Path of Jane Austen: Travels and Tales: A 250th Birthday Anthology edited by Carol S. Bowes 
  • June 9: Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James 
  • July 14: Jane Austen in 41 Objects by Kathryn Sutherland 
  • August 11: The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray
  • September 8: Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser 
  • October 13: Northanger Abbey by Jane AustenNovember 10: A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Austen-Leigh

Past Selections

  • Appiah-Kubi, Eden, Her Own Happiness
  • Barron, Stephanie, Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
  • Brinton, Sybil, Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen
  • Brodey, Inger S. B., Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
  • Carson, Susannah (editor), A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
  • Chau, C. K., Good Fortune
  • Combe, William, The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Critical Edition for Readers of Jane Austen
  • Dev, Sonali, Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors
  • Edgeworth, Maria, The Absentee
  • Ford, Susan Allen, What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why)
  • Hadlow, Janice, The Other Bennet Sister
  • Hale, Shannon, Austenland: A Novel
  • Hornby, Gill, Godmersham Park
  • Hornby, Gill, Miss Austen
  • Horowitz, Laurie, The Family Fortune: A Novel
  • Jalaluddin, Uzma, Ayesha at Last
  • Jenner, Natalie, Austen at Sea
  • Johnson Kindred, Sheila, Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen
  • Kelley, Helena, Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
  • Kim, A. H., Relative Strangers
  • Kipling, Rudyard, “The Janeites” and “Jane’s Marriage”
  • Knight, Caroline Jane, Jane and Me: My Austen Heritage
  • Looser, Devoney, The Making of Jane Austen
  • Morrison, Robert, The Regency Years, During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern
  • Mullan, John, What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
  • Price, Tirzah, Manslaughter Park
  • Romney, Rebecca, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
  • Smith, Amy Elizabeth, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane
  • Taub, Melinda, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
  • Tei Yamashita, Karen, Sansei and Sensibility
  • Trollope, Joanne, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel
  • Tyler, Natalie, The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility
  • Wells, Juliette, A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist
  • Wilson, Ruth, The Jane Austen Remedy
  • Worsley, Lucy, Jane Austen at Home
  • Yaffe, Deborah, Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom