What books would you suggest to a Jane Austen fan?
P.S. Already read all the Brontes, Vanity Fair, and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (which seem to be recommended often when concerning Jane Austen) so don’t bother suggesting those.
2006-09-06 13:37:48 · 16 answers · asked by blah1 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Since you've already tackled the 19thC novel, go to Dickens, he's the master and infinitely better than Thackeray.
If you think you'll only try one book go for Great Expectations, if you think you might like them all, start with Pickwick Papers and off you go. You've a whole world waiting for you - I envy you!
2006-09-06 14:45:35 · answer #1 · answered by UKJess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything by William Wilkie Collins, esp. Armadale
Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son, Bleak House, etc.
E.M. Forster, esp. Room With a View and Howard's End
Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas + The Wyvern Mystery
John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga
Nathaniel Hawthorne - House of the Seven Gables etc.
Henry James (start with Washington Square)
George Eliot - Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch etc.
Gustave Flaubert
Victor Hugo - The Man Who Laughs, The Toilers of the Sea
Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Bette (shares the sense of irony with Austen)
Theodor Fontane - Effie Briest etc.
Leo Tolstoy
Turgenev - The Torrents of Spring etc.
Edith Wharton
R.L. Stevenson's Master of Ballantree (unjustly neglected!)
Thomas Mann - Magic Mountain + Buddenbrooks
Heinrich Mann - Henry IV (I/II)
2006-09-07 04:44:05 · answer #2 · answered by msmiligan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
2006-09-06 20:48:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why limit yourself to one genre? Branch out.
Read Science Fiction (I'd suggest the 'Foundation' series by Isaac Asimov, most of the 'old masters')
Read Mysteries (Mrs. Pollifax, Cat Who, Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, or Joanna Brady series).
Read non-fiction
I sometimes just walk around the library and pick books at random and read the first 10 pages (if I get that far). If it interests me I take it out and read the whole thing. I just finished "Other Origins", about the interactions of Homo Erectis and a giant ape (Big Foot?) in Viet Nam about 250,000 years ago.
2006-09-06 20:59:17 · answer #4 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Jane Austen, also. Some of my other favorite female authors are Anne Tyler, Anita Shreve. Carol Shields, Kaye Gibbons. Any and all of the books they write are excellent.
2006-09-06 21:14:16 · answer #5 · answered by Just Ducky 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nation of Fools by Balraj Khanna
2006-09-06 20:50:28 · answer #6 · answered by janwiseusman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suggest trying new authors like Mickey Zucker Reichert, L. E. Modesitt, Robert Jordan.......all good authors or if u want some smut try Dara Joy, Susan Johnson, or Christine Feehan......... all of em are good
2006-09-06 20:49:55 · answer #7 · answered by nyghtflier 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King Fortis the Brave, Eragon and Harry Potter are all great!
2006-09-07 14:44:16 · answer #8 · answered by Caveman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Louisa May Alcott... "Little Women" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women
Laverne Gay..."Wine of Satan"
Daphne Du Maurier... "Rebecca" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_%28novel%29
Lucy Maud(L.M) Montgomery... All novels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery#Novels
Catherine Cookson..."The Mallen Trilogy" and other novels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Cookson
Catherine Gaskin... most novels http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/catherine-gaskin/
Phillipa Carr(among other pen names)..."The Witch from the Sea" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Hibbert#As_Philippa_Carr
2006-09-07 01:25:22 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly + Eternal Universal Energy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eliza's Daughter
By Joan Aiken.
It's the closest you can get to a sequel.
2006-09-06 22:03:51 · answer #10 · answered by Bunnyz C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋