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Greatest Hits: Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Join us the next five days and kick off the new year with The Book-A-Day Blog’s most popular posts of 2012! Kowal chose a fitting title for this Regency Era-with-a-magical-twist novel, for I found it...
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Do I really need to tell anyone about the plot of this famous classic? Is there a book lover alive who hasn’t heard about how middle-class Elizabeth Bennett meets rich Mr. Darcy, and how at first his...
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
You can tell this is Austen’s first completed novel. Its characters and themes are not as well developed as those in later novels, and the ending is a little too tidy. But Northanger Abbey has a real...
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What Matters in Jane Austen? 20 Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan
Perhaps this is a book meant only for fans of Jane Austen, but what a book! In 20 chapters the author, an English professor at University College London, explores small details to illustrate the...
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Jane Austen: A Life Revealed by Catherine Reef
What is it about Jane Austen’s writing that spurs the devotion of her many fans? As American writer W. Somerset Maugham once remarked, “Nothing very much happens in her books, and yet, when you come to...
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Persuasion by Jane Austen
This may be the original “second chance at love” story. After all, the novel was still very young when Austen was writing in the early 1800s, and her characters and plots were often groundbreaking....
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The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
This book is not your usual chronological biography. Each chapter is about an object owned by Austen herself or particular to her time and place in history. The book is lavishly illustrated with...
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The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig
I’m a big fan of Jane Austen, so when I discovered that Austen herself is a character in this novel, I had to give it a try. I am glad I did. The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig turned out...
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The Love List by Deb Marlowe
Deb Marlowe’s newest book is a regency romance with more than a hint of suspense. It is set in London in 1814, where beautiful young Brynne Wilmott is engaged to the wealthy and powerful Lord Marstoke....
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Longbourn by Jo Baker
I confess to being a Jane Austen fanatic. As such, I have read or tried to read many prequels, sequels, and retellings of Austen’s six novels, especially Pride and Prejudice. Most aren’t very good,...
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