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"Most Ardently" Jane Austen Re-mixed |
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Prequels, sequels, re-imaginings, modern day re-tellings, and other homages to Jane Austen classics. |
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by Pamela Aidan
A first installment of a trilogy based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is told from the perspective of Darcy, begins with his observations of the Bennet family during a disastrous Netherfield Park ball, and offers insight into his complicated past. |
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by Janet Aylmer
A dramatic new interpretation of Jane Austen's masterful novel Pride and Prejudice chronicles the unfolding romance between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy from his perspective, capturing the underlying feelings, thoughts, ideas, and motivations of the reserved hero. |
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by Jo Baker
A reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice from the perspectives of its below-stairs servants. Captures the romance, intrigue and drama of the Bennet household from the sideline perspective of Sara, an orphaned housemaid. also available as audio CD. |
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by Stephanie Barron
Visiting the estate of her friend Isobel, the newly married Countess of Scargrave, Jane Austen is drawn into a mystery when Isobel's husband dies suspiciously and the bereaved young bride is implicated in the murder.
also available in Large Print and eBook. |
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by Katherine J. Chen
The awkward middle child of five, Mary Bennet, who loses herself in the secret pleasures of reading and writing in 19th-century England, soon discovers that her fictional creations are no match for the very real scandal, tragedy and romance that come into her life.
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by Paula Marantz Cohen
In a tale inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, dedicated guidance counselor Anne Ehrlich works to help her high school charges through the perils of their college admissions and remembers a past love whose nephew requires her assistance.
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by Karen Joy Fowler
As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love, in a comedy of contemporary manners.
also available in eBook, eAudio, audio CD, and paperback. |
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by Seth Grahame-Smith
As a mysterious plague falls upon the village of Meryton and zombies start rising from the dead, Elizabeth Bennett is determined to destroy the evil menace, but becomes distracted by the arrival of the dashing and arrogant Mr. Darcy.
also available in eBook and audio CD. |
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by Shannon Hale
Idealizing Mr. Darcy as her model of the perfect man, Jane visits an Austen immersion fantasy camp in England and is astonished when her fantasies prove more plausible than she could have hoped.
also available as audio CD. |
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by P. D. James
Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennett's disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered.
also available in eBook, eAudio, and audio CD. |
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by Syrie James
The discovery of an old chest in the attic of the Austen family home reveals secrets about Jane's private romantic life and the inspiration of her beloved works.
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by Charles C. Lovett
Sophie Collingwood is drawn into a mystery when two people request a copy of the same very rare book from the antiquarian bookshop where she works.
Also available in Large Print. |
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by Alexander McCall Smith
A modern rendering of Jane Austen's classic that follows the experiences of a college graduate who returns to the side of her health-nut father and interferes in the personal lives of her friends.
also available as audio CD. |
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by Colleen McCullough
A sequel to Pride and Prejudice that finds the willful third Bennet sister setting out in her late thirties in pursuit of adventure while her sisters worry about her at home.
Also available as audio CD. |
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by Laurie Viera Rigler
Transported through time into Regency England, heartbroken Austen fan Courtney Stone is forced to live the discouragingly difficult life of a nineteenth-century woman and finds herself experiencing memories that are not her own.
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by Curtis Sittenfeld
Returning with her sister, Jane, to their Ohio hometown when their father falls ill, New York magazine editor Lizzy Bennett confronts challenges in the form of her younger sisters' football fangirl antics, a creepy cousin's unwanted attentions and the infuriating standoffish manners of a handsome neurosurgeon.
also available in Large Print, eBook, and audio CD. |
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by Bernie Su
A modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (and based on the Emmy Award-winning The Lizzie Bennet Diaries). Follows the year-long video project of a grad student who becomes a reluctant celebrity while navigating the pitfalls of sisterhood and romance.
also available as an eBook. |
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by Joanna Trollope
A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters - Elinor, Marianne and Margaret - as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.
Also available as an eBook. |
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by Lauren Willig
When schoolmarm Arabella Dempsey and Reginald "Turnip" Fitzhugh, often mistaken for the elusive spy The Pink Carnation, stumble upon a Christmas pudding with a cryptic message, the pair embark on a Yuletide adventure that ranges from Jane Austen's modest drawing room to a duchess's lavish 12-day Christmas celebration.
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by Ben H. Winters
Combines a Regency classic with monster mayhem, in which a Jane Austen novel is expanded with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents and other biological monstrosities.
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