I love Jane Austen, and many writers have have penned retellings of her works or books inspired by hers that are delightful as well.
Emma is probably my favorite Austen novel (#TeamKnightly), so I was recently watching the new adaptation of Emma and thought it’d be fun to come up with a list of the best book & novel retellings of Jane Austen.
The list is below, but if you have any additional suggestions of your favorite retellings or Austen-inspired books, please drop me note!
General Jane Austen-Inspired Books / Retellings Pride and Prejudice-Inspired Books / Retellings Sense & Sensibility-Inspired Books / Retellings Persuasion-Inspired Books / Retellings Other Retellings Jane Austen Non-Fiction P.S. For more retellings, see the list of Best Retellings of Classic Books .
General Jane Austen-Inspired Books / Retellings
The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 18, 2024
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 26, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Jane Austen Project Kathleen A. Flynn
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 2, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (Jane Austen Addict #1) Laurie Viera Rigler
What It's About:
Publication Date: August 2, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen Syrie James
What It's About:
Publication Date: November 6, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen Charlie Lovett
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 29, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
Jane Austen Ruined My Life Beth Pattillo
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 3, 2009
out of 5 on Goodreads
Miss Austen Gill Hornby
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 7, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
Dear Mr. Knightley Katherine Reay
What It's About:
Publication Date: November 12, 2013
out of 5 on Goodreads
Lizzy and Jane Katherine Reay
What It's About:
Publication Date: November 4, 2014
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Austen Escape Katherine Reay
What It's About:
Publication Date: November 7, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen Syrie James
What It's About:
Publication Date: December 31, 2012
out of 5 on Goodreads
Pride and Prejudice-Inspired Books / Retellings
Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 1, 1999
out of 5 on Goodreads
Death Comes to Pemberley P.D. James
What It's About:
Publication Date: December 6, 2011
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Other Bennet Sister Janice Hadlow
What It's About:
Publication Date: March 31, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
Pride Ibi Zoboi
What It's About:
Publication Date: September 18, 2018
out of 5 on Goodreads
Ayesha at Last Uzma Jalaluddin
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 4, 2019
out of 5 on Goodreads
Unmarriageable Soniah Kamal
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 4, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes #1)
What It's About:
Publication Date: Not Available
out of 5 on Goodreads
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice (The Austen Project #4) Curtis Sittenfeld
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 19, 2016
out of 5 on Goodreads
Longbourn Jo Baker
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 8, 2013
out of 5 on Goodreads
Mr. Darcy's Diary (Jane Austen Heroes #1) Amanda Grange
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 4, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman #1) Pamela Aidan
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 6, 2006
out of 5 on Goodreads
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues Linda Berdoll
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 1, 2004
out of 5 on Goodreads
Austenland (Austenland, #1) Shannon Hale
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 29, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
The New Illustrated Darcy's Story Janet Aylmer
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 1, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
Prom & Prejudice Elizabeth Eulberg
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 1, 2011
out of 5 on Goodreads
First & Then Emma Mills
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 13, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
Mr. Darcy and the Secret of Becoming a Gentleman Maria Hamilton
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 1, 2011
out of 5 on Goodreads
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet Bernie Su
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 24, 2014
out of 5 on Goodreads
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Jane Austen
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 4, 2009
out of 5 on Goodreads
Pride and Premeditation (Jane Austen Murder Mystery #1) Tirzah Price
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 6, 2021
out of 5 on Goodreads
Sense & Sensibility-Inspired Books / Retellings
Sense & Sensibility (The Austen Project #1) Joanna Trollope
What It's About:
Publication Date: October 29, 2013
out of 5 on Goodreads
Jane of Austin: A Novel of Sweet Tea and Sensibility Hillary Manton Lodge
What It's About:
Publication Date: June 13, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
Persuasion-Inspired Books / Retellings
Persuading Annie Melissa Nathan
What It's About:
Publication Date: August 17, 2004
out of 5 on Goodreads
Recipe for Persuasion (The Rajes #2) Sonali Dev
What It's About:
Publication Date: May 26, 2020
out of 5 on Goodreads
For Darkness Shows the Stars Diana Peterfreund
What It's About:
Publication Date: February 18, 2024
out of 5 on Goodreads
Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs Paula Marantz Cohen
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 23, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
Other Retellings
Emma (The Austen Project #3) Alexander McCall Smith
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 7, 2015
out of 5 on Goodreads
Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2) Val McDermid
What It's About:
Publication Date: April 15, 2014
out of 5 on Goodreads
Jane Austen Non-Fiction
Becoming Jane Austen Jon Spence
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 3, 2007
out of 5 on Goodreads
What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved John Mullan
What It's About:
Publication Date: January 29, 2013
out of 5 on Goodreads
Jane Austen at Home Lucy Worsley
What It's About:
Publication Date: July 11, 2017
out of 5 on Goodreads
Great list! I look forward to reading some of these. :)
thank you! happy reading!
This is such a great list!
Thank you! And thanks for checking it out! :)
This was a fantastic list! I quite enjoyed The Other Bennet Sister and Unmarriageable, and already had a couple on my TBR, but now I’ve got a whole lot more on my radar, so thank you. 😊 A few others you might be interested in are:
Perception by Terri Fleming (Pride & Prejudice, Mary’s POV)
What Kitty Did Next by Carrie Kablean (Pride & Prejudice)
The Clergyman’s Wife by Molly Greely (Pride & Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas’ POV)
Charlotte by Helen Moffett (Pride & Prejudice)
Polite Society by Mahesh Rao (Emma)
Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh (Sense & Sensibility)
oh awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to type these up, I will definitely look into them! :)
Brilliant idea! wish your efforts well going forward.
I have almost all of these in my TBR. Obsessed with Austen. 😆
These look great!!
Severly missing “Shades of Milk and Honey” by Mary Robinette Kowal and its sequels.