Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!

A selection of books and movies to celebrate Jane Austen’s 247th birthday all December long!

Kids

• Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull
• The Next Great Jane by K. L. Going
• Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, A Writing Box, and One Clever Girl by Deborah Hopkinson
• Pies & Prejudice by Heather Vogel Frederick
• Who was Jane Austen? by Sarah Fabiny

Teens

• Emoji Pride and Prejudice: Epic Tales Told in Tiny Texts by Katherine Furman
• A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Jane Austen’s Emma (Graphic Novel) by Nancy Butler; art by Janet K. Lee
• I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend by Cora Harrison (Read now on OverDrive)
• Pride by Ibi Aanu Zoboi (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith (Read now on OverDrive)
• Pugs & Prejudice by Eliza Garrett
• Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters (Read now on OverDrive)

Austen’s Classics

• Collected Works (Read now on OverDrive)
• Emma (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Lady Susan (Read now on OverDrive)
• Mansfield Park (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Northhanger Abbey (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Persuasion (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Pride and Prejudice (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Sense and Sensibility (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Fiction Inspired by Jane

• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
• First Impressions by Charlie Lovett
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature’s Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart by Laurel Ann Nattress
• The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn (Listen now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo
• Jane Austen in Scarsdale: Or Love, Death, and the SATs by Paula Marantz Cohen
• The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen’s Lost Letters: Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries Series by Jane K. Cleland (Read now on OverDrive)
• Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor: The Jane Austen Mysteries by Stephanie Barron (Read now on OverDrive)
• Killing Jane Austen: A Honey Driver Mystery by Jean G. Goodhind
• The Man Who Loved Jane Austen by Sally Smith O’Rourke
• The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen by Syrie James
• The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen by Lindsay Jayne Ashford (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)
• Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev (Read now on OverDrive)
• Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

The Life & Times of Jane

• Jane Austen: A Companion by Josephine Ross
• Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley (Read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood by Abby McDonald (Read now on OverDrive)
• Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics by Thomas Keymer
• The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne (Listen now or read now on OverDrive)

Austen on Film

• Austenland
• Becoming Jane
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Clueless
• Lost in Austen
• Mansfield Park
• Pride & Prejudice
• Sense & Sensibility

And more!

• All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-Long Journey with Jane by Amy Elizabeth Smith
• Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels by Rachel Cohen
• The Best of Jane Austen Knits: 27 Regency-Inspired Designs by Amy Clarke Moore
• Flirting with Pride And Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives On The Original Chick Lit Masterpiece by Jennifer Crusie (Read now on OverDrive)
• A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me about Love, Friendship, and the Things that Really Matter by William Deresiewicz
• The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After by Elizabeth Kantor (Read now on OverDrive)
• The Jane Austen Writers’ Club: Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-Loved Novelist by Rebecca Smith (Read now on OverDrive)
• The List Lover’s Guide to Jane Austen by Joan Strasbaugh (Read now on OverDrive)
• Marrying Mr. Darcy: The Pride and Prejudice Card Game
• Pride & Prejudice: The Graphic Novel by Laurence Sach; illustration, Rajesh Nagulakonda
• Pride and Preju-Knits: Twelve Genteel Knitting Projects Inspired by Jane Austen by Trixie von Purl