This is a new feature I developed where each month we will look at our favorite – the best – series in a genre or topic.
The topic here, by my definition, is a series with Jane Austen retellings. Sophia did the honors in picking these series as she is more knowledgeable than I will ever be on this topic and had many, many options. These are some of her favorites.
It’s a subset of the possibilities. Please share your favorites with me in the comments, also.
My favorite Jane Austen Retellings series are (in no particular order):
Rajes Jane Austen Mysteries Jane Austen’s Dragons
by Sonali Dev by Stephanie Barron by Maria Grace
Mr Darcy & Miss Tilney Conscience Jane Austen Variations
by Claudia Gray by Cat Gardiner by Alice McVeigh
What are your favorite series?
Vote for your top 3 favorites! You can vote for my favorites or add favorites of your own.
About Claudia Gray
Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent. She is the writer of multiple young adult novels, including the Evernight series, the Firebird trilogy, and the Constellation trilogy. In addition, she’s written several Star Wars novels, such as Lost Stars and Bloodline, and Jane Austen-inspired series, A Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mysteries. She makes her home in New Orleans with her husband Paul and assorted small dogs.
About Sonali Dev
Sonali Dev’s first literary work was a play about mistaken identities performed at her neighborhood Diwali extravaganza in Mumbai. She was eight years old. Despite this early success, Sonali spent the next few decades getting degrees in architecture and written communication, migrating across the globe, and starting a family while writing for magazines and websites. With the advent of her first gray hair her mad love for telling stories returned full force, and she now combines it with her insights into Indian culture to conjure up stories that make a mad tangle with her life as supermom, domestic goddess, and world traveler.
Sonali lives in the Chicago suburbs with her very patient and often amused husband and two teens who demand both patience and humor, and the world’s most perfect dog.
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I love Austen retellings but I don’t think I’ve read one of these
I’ve read the entire Sonali Dev series. The Maria Grace book Pemberley was a freebie last week so I’ll try it sometime.
I’ve only recently encountered Maria Grace’s superb series, which I inhaled last week. Thank for your this excellent list! I have already got hold of Darcy by Alice McVeigh and will be sampling some of the others:)). How very timely!
This is all Sophia’s great work. I noticed the Pemberley book was available as a freebie when I was setting it up so I grabbed it to read.
I’m not an Austin-reader and honestly forget the plots of the stories so I never catch if they are a retelling unless super obvious like Dev’s series (which I really enjoyed). Sophia’s reviews help me catch a few here and there.
I’m pretty much in the same boat. I started Pemberley yesterday because it was a freebie and I’m loving it. But I don’t have any idea how it ties to the original stories other than some character names.
I’ve been a P&P kick this month. I’ve watched the Kiera P&P twice. And I read a couple of P&Ps
Sophia is the expert and these series are her top recommendations.
The only one I’ve read is one in the Stephanie Barron series which I enjoyed. I really want to read the Sonali Dev series but the others are new to me. I’ll have to research them.
The first Maria Grace book – Penberley is free and I’m working my way through the series by staying up until 4 am the last two nights because they are excellent. I highly recommend them and that you grab the free first book in the series.
I’m so glad to have a fellow fan of Maria Grace’s dragon books. 🙂
I’m binging them and don’t want to read anything else!