7 Best regency books like Longbourn by Jo Baker

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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…

"...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people."

-Jo Baker, Longbourn

"...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

"Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed."

-Jo Baker, Longbourn

If you liked the regency plot in Longbourn by Jo Baker , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Darcys of Pemberley (The Darcys of Pemberley, #1)

By: Shannon Winslow , None

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition

A sequel true to Jane Austen's beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy ha… read more

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2. Charlotte Collins: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

By: Jennifer Becton

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

When Charlotte Lucas married Mr. Collins in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, she believed herself… read more

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3. 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

4. Death Comes to Pemberley

By: None

4.27

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James. The year is 1803, and Fitzwill… read more

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5. Return to Longbourn (The Darcys of Pemberley, #2)

By: Shannon Winslow

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What will happen to the Longbourn family when Mr. Bennet dies? --Seeing that his estate is entailed… read more

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6. Austenland (Austenland, #1)

By: Shannon Hale

4.50

Format: 158 pages,

Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Dar… read more

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7. 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

Similar categories in Jo Baker's Longbourn book and Jo Baker's Longbourn

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • retellings
  • 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

8. Eligible (The Austen Project, #4)

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

5.00

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven't met before: Liz is… read more

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9. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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10. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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11. 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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  • romance
  • retellings
  • 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)

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12. Godmersham Park

By: Gill Hornby

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

On 21 January 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of gover… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • historical
  • regency
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She was simply a creature of the most passionate nature. She felt intensely; where she loved, there she loved absolutely."

-Gill Hornby, Godmersham Park

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13. 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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  • romance
  • retellings
  • 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

Cover of The Late Mrs. Willoughby (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney, #2) by Claudia Gray

14. 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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  • romance
  • 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)

Cover of The Clergyman's Wife: A Pride & Prejudice Novel by Molly Greeley

15. 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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  • romance
  • retellings
  • british literature
  • 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

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16. Charlotte

By: Helen Moffett

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Everybody thinks that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is twenty-seven years old, unmarried, p… read more

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  • romance
  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • romance
  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Storielle per granchi e per scorpioni

By: Luigi Lo Cascio

3.03

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Chiamarle “storielle” è cosa seria – come seri sono sempre i giochi –, perché in verità questi racc… read more

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19. 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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  • adult fiction
  • british literature
  • historical
  • regency
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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20. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

By: Melinda Taub

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more

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  • romance
  • retellings
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray

21. 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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  • romance
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

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