The Jane Austen reading list

One title from Tertulia's list of books that offer "multiple ways into Jane Austen’s enduring world:"

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
Devoney Looser

Incisive and funny, this new book reconsiders Jane Austen’s life, writing, and long afterlife. Revisiting the novels, juvenilia, suffrage, adaptation history, and pop-cultural mythmaking, Looser presents a writer deeply entangled with the controversies of her time—and ours.

Read about another entry on the list.

Also see Rebecca Romney's list of six books that owe a debt to Jane Austen’s work, Melissa Albert's list of the top fifteen male characters in Jane Austen's novels, and Paula Byrne's list of the ten best Jane Austen characters.

The Page 99 Test: Wild for Austen.

--Marshal Zeringue