Jane Austen's Books & Adaptations discussion

2021 Group Reading/Watching/Listening Suggestions

might change or be shuffled around


February 2021

February Group Read
📚 Jane Austen Made Me Do It: Original Stories Inspired by Literature's Most Astute Observer of the Human Heart - a short story anthology - Challenge Category: Sequels & Retellings

February Group Watch
🎬 1995 Sense and Sensibility Movie - Challenge Category: Adaptations
💡 2017 BBC Documentary Jane Austen Behind Closed Door (Lucy Worsley) - YouTube link - Challenge Category: Plain Facts

February Group Listen
🎧 Sense and Sensibility - Audible Audio Dramatizations - part of The Jane Austen Collection: An Audible Original Drama - Challenge Category: Adaptations

March 2021

March Group Read
📚 Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon by Jane Austen - Challenge Category: Original

March Group Watch
📺 2020 Netflix Show Bridgerton - Challenge Category: Setting


March Group Listen
🎧 Pride and Prejudice - Audible Audio Dramatizations - part of The Jane Austen Collection: An Audible Original Drama - Challenge Category: Adaptations

April 2021

April Group Read
📚 Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron

April Group Watch
🎬 2005 Pride and Prejudice Movie - Challenge Category: Adaptations
🎬 2019 Love & Friendship Movie - Challenge Category: Adaptations

April Group Listen
🎧 Emma - Audible Audio Dramatizations - part of The Jane Austen Collection: An Audible Original Drama - Challenge Category: Adaptations

Post your suggestions for Group Reads, Listens or Watches here.

My 2021 suggestions for:

Group Reads
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - Challenge Category: Original
Emma by Jane Austen - Challenge Category: Original
Lady Susan by Jane Austen - Challenge Category: Original
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley - Challenge Category: Plain Facts
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin - Challenge Category: Plain Facts
Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin - Challenge Category: Sequels & Retellings
Jane of Austin: A Novel of Sweet Tea and Sensibility by Hillary Manton Lodge - Challenge Category: Sequels & Retellings
Miss Austen by Gill Hornby - Challenge Category: Setting

Group Watches
Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Love & Friendship (2016 Movie) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Persuasion (2007 TV Movie - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Emma (2020 Movie) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Emma Approved (Web Series) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Clueless (1995 Movie) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC TV Show) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Bride & Prejudice (2004 Movie) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Death Comes to Pemberley (2013 BBC Mini-series) - Challenge Category: Adaptations
Jane Austen vs Emily Brontë: The Queens of English Literature Debate with Dominic West (Literary Debate on YouTube) - Challenge Category: Plain Facts
Jane Austen Country: The Life & Times of Jane Austen (Documentary on YouTube) - Challenge Category: Plain Facts
The Duchess (2008 Movie) - Challenge Category: Setting
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003 Movie) - Challenge Category: Setting


Group Listens
Jane Austen: The BBC Radio Drama Collection - Challenge Category: Adaptations

I'd like to revisit Persuasion this year because I've only read it once and I think I would appreciate it more now.

So, I'd love to read that and watch any of the adaptations together. :D

Laurie asked about Stephanie Barron's mystery series.
We might read Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor in April.