Miss Austen
By: Gill Hornby
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the…
Want to Read $ 2.99"To surrender one's books, well: it is to surrender part of one's soul."-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"To surrender one's books, well: it is to surrender part of one's soul."-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Oh, marriage!' Jane retorted. 'Marriage! Always the excuse for all failures of character. One does so long for it to bring some improvements, but more often it appears the root cause of all poor behaviour."-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Oh, marriage!' Jane retorted. 'Marriage! Always the excuse for all failures of character. One does so long for it to bring some improvements, but more often it appears the root cause of all poor behaviour."-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
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1. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict, #1)
By: Laurie Viera Rigler
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this Jane Austen inspired comedy, love story, and exploration of identity and destiny, a modern … read more
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- adult fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Only a fool would wish to go back who he was."-Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict, #1)
"Our heart chooses for us, or a tiny whisper inside that is too faint for us to hear."-Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict, #1)
"...and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury."-Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict, #1)
"You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it."-Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict, #1)
2. Jane Austen at Home
By: Lucy Worsley
3.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of the two hundredth anniversary of Jane Austen's death, take a trip back to her world a… read more
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- historical
- books about books
- audiobook
3. What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved
By: John Mullan
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
Which important Austen characters never speak? Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters c… read more
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- regency
- books about books
4. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
By: Jane Austen , Margaret Drabble
3.15
Format: None pages,
[] 'She has poured forth her tender tale of love in vain, and exposed herself forever to the conte… read more
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- historical fiction
- fiction
- british literature
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- fiction
- audiobook
6. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
By: Paula Byrne
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne takes a highly original approach in this landmark biograp… read more
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7. Northanger Abbey
By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam
3.85
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"I have no talent for certainty."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
8. Because Of The Lockwoods
By: Dorothy Whipple
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The story is deceptively simple: the entanglement of two families in a northern town called Aldwort… read more
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9. Longbourn
By: Jo Baker
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own pe… read more
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- adult fiction
- british literature
- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"If Elizabeth had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
10. Jane Austen: A Life
By: Claire Tomalin
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
At her death in 1817, Jane Austen left the world six of the most beloved novels written in English-… read more
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11. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- historical
- books about books
- audiobook
12. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
13. A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
By: Sophie Irwin
3.92
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Sea… read more
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- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Well you displayed so little anxiety about my being murdered," he said to her hotly, pride very much injured, "that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not."-Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
"They paused there for a beat, looking at each other with mutual calculation. It occurred to them both, then – though of course they did not know it – that they might equally have agreed to pistols at…"-Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
"I don't know what you want from me then,' she cried, casting out her arms. 'For I cannot make my situation any different. I must marry. And so far, I have no promises.' He would not look at her. 'Ask…"-Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
"Would you - would you like to marry me, Kitty?' Lord Radcliffe - James - asked, voice like gravel. She gave a helpless little laugh at the absurdity of the question - as if he did not know. 'I would,…"-Sophie Irwin, A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (A Lady's Guide, #1)
14. The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)
By: Claudia Gray
3.69
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
A summer house party turns into a whodunit when Mr. Wickham, one of literature’s most notorious vil… read more
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- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"What I believed Willoughby to be, you truly are."-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)
"What a relief - he was referring only to the murder."-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)
"How unfortunate for public morals that being unladylike feels so... exciting."-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)
"Doing what is right may be painful to us," she said, "but doing what is painful to others is rarely right."-Claudia Gray, The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #1)
15. The Other Bennet Sister
By: Janice Hadlow
4.16
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shad… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Watching what happens isn’t the same as being part of it."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"And anyway, in our house, no-one is obliged to sparkle. Which, I find, makes it far more likely that they might."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"If I don’t have the genius to create a thing of beauty myself, at least I have the judgement to appreciate the art of others."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
"...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation."-Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister
16. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
17. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
18. The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)
By: Claudia Gray
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney re… read more
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- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"...she said to Brandon, "If I am found out in Scotland - or if George and I decide Edinburgh is not to our taste - we might always set out for the United States of America." "You need not stoop to ba…"-Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)
"...Willoughby had sequestered himself in his room. Jonathan half wondered if he had pushed heavy furniture against the door to keep himself safe, then realized this could not be so. That would keep o…"-Claudia Gray, The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2)
19. The Jane Austen Society
By: Natalie Jenner
3.74
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction and for Debut Novel! Just after the S… read more
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- adult fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"Saved by Jane Austen"-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"But one can always read Austen."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"You read too much. You read her to much."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
"Reading, she now understood, had been her own choice of rebellion."-Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society
20. The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride & Prejudice Novel
By: Molly Greeley
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
For everyone who loved Pride and Prejudice—and legions of historical fiction lovers—an inspired deb… read more
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- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Sometimes I have moments of pure astonishment when I realize that William, it seems, is very sure that he knows all of me. He believes that I am the person he sits across from at dinner every evening…"-Molly Greeley, The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride & Prejudice Novel
21. The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh
By: Molly Greeley
3.69
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the auth… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
22. Miss Austen
By: Gill Hornby
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"To surrender one's books, well: it is to surrender part of one's soul."-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Oh, marriage!' Jane retorted. 'Marriage! Always the excuse for all failures of character. One does so long for it to bring some improvements, but more often it appears the root cause of all poor beha…"-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Well ...' Cassie thought for a moment, and found she could not disagree. 'I suppose she is very happy to be married to James. And, perhaps, for the moment, yes, a little ... bumptious with it.' Jane …"-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
"Was I terribly rude?' It was almost as if she might care a jot. 'Yes! You were frightful!' Cassy tugged at her locks playfully. 'As rude as I was to Mr Blackall?' 'No,' Cassy conceded, laughing. 'Nob…"-Gill Hornby, Miss Austen
23. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
By: A.J. Pearce
4.19
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)
24. Close Knit
By: Jenny Colgan
3.98
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
25. The Hapless Milliner (Miss Austen Investigates, #1)
By: Jessica Bull
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A witty, engaging murder mystery featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
26. Bloomsbury Girls
By: Natalie Jenner
3.86
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and hea… read more
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- adult fiction
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- books about books
- audiobook
"As her eyes met his, Grace took strength in that feeling of understanding, which she now knew to be another form of love. Being understood, appreciated, and not judged: these, surely, were the corner…"-Natalie Jenner, Bloomsbury Girls
27. The Three Graces
By: Amanda Craig
3.75
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more
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- fiction
28. The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
By: Claudia Gray
4.10
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facin… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
29. A Lady of Conscience (Somerset Stories, #5)
By: Mimi Matthews
4.26
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
A Victorian bluestocking with a passion for lost causes attracts the unwilling attention of a frost… read more
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- historical
- regency
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I must caution you,"-Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience (Somerset Stories, #5)
"But a man doesn’t change his character, dearest."-Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience (Somerset Stories, #5)
"It’s difficult to dispense with strategy when I want something as much as I want you."-Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience (Somerset Stories, #5)
"In other words," James said, "let her bring home as many donkeys, dogs, and kittens as she pleases."-Mimi Matthews, A Lady of Conscience (Somerset Stories, #5)
30. Ordinary Time
By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
4.18
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
'There are already three of us in this marriage. I'm not sure there is room for a fourth . . .'Ann … read more
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- fiction
31. My Salty Mary (Mary, #3)
By: Cynthia Hand
4.02
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of The Princess Bride and A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, New York Times b… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
