Jane Austen’s classic stories have inspired generations of TV, film and books after she finished publishing. This collection of Austen adaptations are some of our favorite novels released recently. These entertaining reads have modern retellings, genre bending, and deep dives into supplementary characters. With something for everyone, readers won’t want to miss these!

A Crime Through Time by Amelia Blackwell

A mystery novel through time, Georgiana Darcy finds a mysterious object which transports her to a 1995 movie set where a terrible crime has just been committed. The twist? The film is an adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, and Miss Darcy might be just the person to solve the mysterious crime.

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Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Zuri is proud of her neighborhood in Brooklyn, in her family, and in her Afro-Latino roots. So she immediately distrusts the wealthy Darcy family that moves across the street, representing the money gentrifying her rapidly changing neighborhood. Amidst chaos with her other siblings and college applications in this modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Zuri finds unexpected understanding and love.

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The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne

This romance novel puts Jane Austen’s Persuasion into a sci-fi version of The Bachelorette. Princess Leonie of a European spaceship is on the verge of financial ruin if she doesn’t find a husband fast. Unfortunately, her childhood crush Elliot, the man her parents forbid her from marrying, returns, and he’s a successful ship captain no less. Elliot seems intent on torturing her, but old habits die harder than they thought.

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The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

The ugly duckling sister, Mary, whom Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice overlooks, finally gets a story of her own. Mary goes through a transformative process to find herself, while also having romantic adventures which other sisters got to explore.

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Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin

This novel is a play on the character dynamics in Pride and Prejudice between Mr. Wickham, Lydia, and Elizabeth Bennet, set in modern day. Ayesha has to put her plans of being a poet on hold so she can pay off her debts. In the meantime, she is living with her big Muslim family, refusing their wishes for her to accept an arranged marriage. Unfortunately, the only man she has been attracted to, Khalid, is so conservative that he judges every choice she makes. After hearing some disturbing rumors about his family she has to decide whether to tell her cousin–his surprise new fiance.

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Heartstone by C.J. Sanson

Set in an immersive fantasy world filled with secrets and of dragons, dragon warrior Aliza is on a royal mission to defeat the gryphons who killed her sister. She was not expecting, however, to battle alongside the haughty (and handsome) dragon rider Alastair. Nor was she expecting the connection that soon forms between them.

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The Bennet Women by Eden Appiah-Kubi

Inspired by Pride and Prejudice, this novel modernizes the favorite Bennet sisters into three college students living in a women’s only dorm called Bennet House. The romantic lives of EJ, a black engineering student, Jamie, a trans student studying French and theater, and Tessa, a Filapina astronomy major, become intertwined in the same beloved tropes from  Austen, but this time with a charming Hollywood producer and his arrogant yet famous TV actor best friend.

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Polite Society by Mahesh Rao

Ania is the modern, Indian Emma in this retelling of Jane Austen’s novel Emma. Ania is looking for her next matchmaking project, and chooses her friend Dimple for the task. However, when a possible suitor comes from America to Delhi, things don’t go to plan and Ania has to learn that matters of the heart are not as easy as she thought.

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