Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
By: Ted Scheinman
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A Paris Review Staff Pick and one of The Millions' Most Anticipated Reads of MarchA raucous tour th…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Austen is able to kick scholars out of their armchairs and into action."-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
"Janeism is a religion only in these two respects - reverence for the God head and adherence to the text."-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
"They come to laugh and to learn, to dance and to listen, to admire and to be admired, to teach and to be taught, to question their assumptions about Jane and to confirm them."-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
"Part of being a fan means recognizing that Austen belongs equally to all of us even as we feel viscerally that everyone else has got her utterly wrong. Like all fans we are by necessity irrational creatures."-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
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1. A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
By: William Deresiewicz
3.84
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Before Jane Austen, William Deresiewicz was a very different young man. A sullen and arrogant gradu… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
"I sentimenti sono anche il modo primo di conoscere un romanzo; e i romanzi sono il terreno di prova per conoscere il mondo, santuari dell'immaginazione dove affinare e mettere alla prova i nostri val…"-William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
"There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had gi…"-William Deresiewicz, A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
2. The India Fan
By: Victoria Holt
3.85
Format: 396 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Drusilla Delaney, the daughter of an impoverished minister, becomes fascinated with the wealthy Fra… read more
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3. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
By: Ngaio Marsh
3.71
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more
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- audiobook
"Do you read crime fiction?"-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)
4. 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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- biography
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
5. Under A Pole Star
By: Stef Penney
4.40
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
Flora Mackie was twelve when she first crossed the Arctic Circle on her father's whaling ship. Now … read more
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6. Wilde in Love (The Wildes of Lindow Castle, #1)
By: Eloisa James
3.81
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
Lord Alaric Wilde, son of the Duke of Lindow, is the most celebrated man in England, revered for hi… read more
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- adult
- regency
- audiobook
7. 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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8. The Strays
By: Emily Bitto
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde … read more
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9. Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas (Jane Austen Mysteries #12)
By: Stephanie Barron
4.27
Format: 217 pages,
Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Er… read more
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10. The Mischief of the Mistletoe (Pink Carnation, #7)
By: Lauren Willig
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select … read more
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11. The Way We Live Now
By: Anthony Trollope
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more
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12. The Brontës
By: Juliet Barker
3.93
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Brontes is an engrossing and intimate chronicle of an astonishingly creative family. "Anyone fa… read more
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13. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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14. Forgotten Country
By: Catherine Chung
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Weaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country is… read more
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15. The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)
By: Anne Perry
4.00
Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback
His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident tha… read more
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16. My Life in Middlemarch
By: Rebecca Mead
3.63
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middle… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- books about books
- literary criticism
"Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is graspe…"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the most admirable character in a novel, and she hoped…"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a …"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
"Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her depiction of Ladislaw--that she fell …"-Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch
17. Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts
By: Agatha Christie
4.00
Format: None pages,
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18. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
By: Monica Hesse
4.00
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the p… read more
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19. Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City, #8)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.18
Format: 578 pages,
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pu… read more
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20. Rising Courage
By: Heather Moll
4.23
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
An insulting proposal. A band of criminals. Can they fight off their kidnappers and find their way … read more
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- regency
21. 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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- regency
- 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)
22. 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
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"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
23. 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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- audiobook
24. To Catch A Suitor (Dalton Family, #2)
By: Sarah Adams
3.77
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
She needs to move on. He wants to let her go. Will they finally be able to go their separate ways e… read more
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25. The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives
By: Nancy Pearl
3.78
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Introduction by Susan Orlean Twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Ta… read more
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- adult
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26. To Love and to Loathe (The Regency Vows, #2)
By: Martha Waters
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The widowed Diana, Lady Templeton and Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham are infamous among English hig… read more
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- adult
- regency
- audiobook
"...as any lady knows, a well-tied cravat is nothing to take lightly."-Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe (The Regency Vows, #2)
"Diana did not care for dogs--too noisy, too energetic, and too smelly. She rather liked the idea of acquiring a cat at some point, though--she admired their lazy grace, as well as their ability to fo…"-Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe (The Regency Vows, #2)
"She [Diana] trailed off, at a loss to explain the complex whirlwind of emotions that had taken up residence within her without her consent. That was the trouble with feelings--they so rarely appeared…"-Martha Waters, To Love and to Loathe (The Regency Vows, #2)
27. To Con a Gentleman (Dalton Family, #1)
By: Sarah Adams
3.87
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
He was her target. She was his diversion. Falling in love was never something they wanted. As a … read more
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- regency
- audiobook
28. My Ex-Life
By: Stephen McCauley
3.70
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
The time for Stephen McCauley's breakout novel has come and My Ex-Life is it in a major way. A deli… read more
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29. Anne of Manhattan
By: Brina Starler
3.24
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
L. M. Montgomery’s classic tale, Anne of Green Gables, gets a romantic, charming, and hilarious mod… read more
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- audiobook
30. The Gay Best Friend
By: Nicolas DiDomizio
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
an alternate cover edition can be found here He's always been the token gay best friend. Now, st… read more
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- audiobook
"Worryin only gives the small things big shadows"-Nicolas DiDomizio, The Gay Best Friend
31. Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
By: Ted Scheinman
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A Paris Review Staff Pick and one of The Millions' Most Anticipated Reads of MarchA raucous tour th… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- regency
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- books about books
- literary criticism
"Austen is able to kick scholars out of their armchairs and into action."-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
"Janeism is a religion only in these two respects - reverence for the God head and adherence to the text."-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
"They come to laugh and to learn, to dance and to listen, to admire and to be admired, to teach and to be taught, to question their assumptions about Jane and to confirm them."-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
"Part of being a fan means recognizing that Austen belongs equally to all of us even as we feel viscerally that everyone else has got her utterly wrong. Like all fans we are by necessity irrational cr…"-Ted Scheinman, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
