Next month, our book club will be reading Emma by Alexander McCall Smith. This is a modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic. In this version of the story, Emma Woodhouse returns home after school to live with her widowed father and to start her own interior design business. While home, she is busy with the things she does best: matchmaking and offering advice. Want more? Try out one of these Jane Austen retellings:
Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid
Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
Epic Fail by Claire LaZebnik
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Dashwood Sisters Tell All by Beth Pattillo
Want to read the original stories? We have those too!
Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Emma
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