Jane Austen July Announcement and Recommendations | 2026 #janeaustenjuly

In which I'm back to announce another Jane Austen July! #janeaustenjuly ... My co-hosts are ‪@katiejlumsden‬ and ‪@SpinstersLibrary‬ Katie's Video: https://tinyurl.com/bdu9pdf3 Claudia's Video: https://tinyurl.com/287hnvc6 Discord server:   / discord   Goodreads group: https://tinyurl.com/y7t4n8cd The Challenges 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s main six novels 2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels 3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time 4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time 5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen (i.e., published between 1775–1817) 6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book 7. Watch something related to Austen that is not a direct adaptation. Readalong/Watchalong Schedule Mansfield Park: Read 2 chapters a day and finish on July 24th (the rest of the month is for catching up if you fall behind) Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen, Behind Closed Doors documentary: watch at some point in July and discuss on Goodreads and/or Discord. Look out for a further announcement about possible liveshow and/or reading sprints with the hosts. https://tinyurl.com/36peryz9 Books Mentioned (And others) -Pride and Prejudice -Emma -Persuasion -Mansfield Park -Sense and Sensibility -Northanger Abbey -The Watsons -Sanditon -Lady Susan -Juvenilia -Jane Austen's Letters -What Matters in Jane Austen Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan -Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley -The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne -Elegant Etiquette in the Nineteenth Century by Mallory James -An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray -Jane Austen’s England: Daily Life in the Georgian and Regency Periods by Lesley Adkins and Roy Adkins -Jane Austen Embroidery by Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin -Tea with Jane Austen by Pen Vogler -Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune and Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir -Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane by Devoney Looser -The Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne -Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney -The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow - see my review video here: https://tinyurl.com/yrvzefnh -Miss Austen by Gill Hornby - see my review video here: https://tinyurl.com/3st8hc2x -Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby - see my review video here: https://tinyurl.com/mrxs5t7a -The Elopement by Gill Hornby -Longbourn by Jo Baker -Pride by Ibi Zoboi -Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding -Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin -Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal -Stephanie Barron's Jane Austen Mystery Series -Jessica Bull's Miss Austen Investigates -The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen A. Flynn -Claudia Gray's Austen mystery series; The Fatal Unpleasantness at Netherfield by Claudia Gray (release date June 16th) -The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen, The Unexpected Past of Miss Jane Austen by Ada Bright & Cass Grafton -Seeking Mansfield by Kate Watson -The Beresfords by Christina Dudley -This Motherless Land by Nikki May -Goodreads List: https://tinyurl.com/yj7ew96h -What Jane Austen Read: https://tinyurl.com/347v8kku --Works referenced in Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney: https://tinyurl.com/mpy2u8mp -Romantic Poets: Wordsworth,Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats -Cowper -Robert Southey -Frankenstein by Mary Shelley -Frances Burney (Evelina, Camilla... ) -Maria Edgeworth (Belinda, Castle Rackrent, The Absentee...) -Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, The Lady of the Lake, The Bride of Lammermoor, Marmion...) -The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox -Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (Marriage) -Lover's Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald -The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The School for Scandal and The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan -Charlotte Smith -Hannah More -Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi -Miss Austen -The Other Bennet Sister -Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius -Pride and Prejudice (1995 and 2005) -Northanger Abbey (2007) -Sense & Sensibility ( 1995 and 2008) -Emma (2009 and 2020) -Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) -Emma (1996) -Love and Friendship (2016) -Mansfield Park (1999 and 2007) -Austenland -Fire Island -Bride and Prejudice (2004) -Clueless (1995) -Sanditon (2019) -The Jane Austen Bookclub -The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: https://tinyurl.com/y72qe9be -Emma Approved: https://tinyurl.com/y7762qcb -From Mansfield With Love: https://tinyurl.com/y7ne8fnp -Northbound: https://tinyurl.com/y7fnhv9q -Cate Moreland Chronicles: https://tinyurl.com/24p3frju -Eleanor and Marianne take Barton: https://tinyurl.com/46ss4c9m -Rational Creatures: https://tinyurl.com/2nj7z23y music by [audionautix.com](http://audionautix.com/) ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ Let's be friends!   / misa1404     / blatantlybookish   Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile...