JASNA NorCal Reading Group

This group meets every second Tuesday except for December from 6:30 pm to 8 pm (Pacific) on Zoom. Check the Regional Events page for registration information.

Upcoming 2024 Selections

May: The Jane Austen Remedy, Ruth Wilson

June: Relative Strangers, A. H. Kim

July: Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness, Inger S. B. Brodey

August: Austenland: A Novel, Shannon Hale

September: What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why), Susan Allen Ford

October: The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch, Melinda Taub

November: Good Fortune, C. K. Chau

Past Selections

Appiah-Kubi, Eden, Her Own Happiness

Barron, Stephanie, Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas

Carson, Susannah (editor), A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

Dev, Sonali, Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors

Edgeworth, Maria, The Absentee

Hadlow, Janice, The Other Bennet Sister

Hornby, Gill, Godmersham Park

Jalaluddin, Uzma, Ayesha at Last

Johnson Kindred, Sheila, Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen

Kelley, Helena, Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

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

Smith, Amy Elizabeth, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

Tei Yamashita, Karen, Sansei and Sensibility

Trollope, Joanne, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel

Wells, Juliette, A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist

Worsley, Lucy, Jane Austen at Home

Yaffe, Deborah, Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom