**This list is in chronological order based on the publication year
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– Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion by Hilary Davidson © 2019
– There’s Something About Darcy by Gabrielle Malcolm © 2019 – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen’s Inspiration: Beloved Friend Anne Lefroy by Judith Stove © 2019
– The Lost Books of Jane Austen by Janine Barchas © 2019
– Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England by Rory Muir © 2019
– Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans (Fandom & Culture) by Holly Luetkenhaus and Zoe Weinstein © 2019
– Etiquette in Jane Austen’s England by Michelle L. Hamilton © 2019
– How Jane Austen Kept her Cool: An A to Z History of Georgian Ice Cream (Jane Austen Regency Life Book 3) by Maria Grace © 2018
– Reading Jane Austen (Reading Writers and their Work) by Jenny Davidson © 2018
– Jane and Dorothy by Marian Veevers © 2018
– Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan by Ted Scheinman © 2018
– Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850) by Jocelyn Harris © 2017
– Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen by Wendy Jones © 2017
– Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells © 2017
– Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen by Sheila Johnson © 2017
– Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley © 2017
– The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser © 2017
– The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne © 2017
– Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage by Caroline Jane Knight © 2017 – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen’s England by Helen Amy © 2017
– Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters edited by Kathryn Sutherland © 2017
– The Jane Austen Treasury: A Collection of Fascinating Insights into Her Life, Her Time and Her Novels by Janet Todd © 2017
– Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelley © 2017
– Women and ‘Value’ in Jane Austen’s Novels: Settling, Speculating and Superfluity by Lynda A. Hall © 2017
– Simply Austen by Joan Klingel Ray © 2017
– Jane Austen and Performance by Marina Cano © 2017
– On the Sofa with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane © 2016
– Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Relationships by Ronald W. Richardson © 2016
– Austen’s Guide to Happiness by Shaunagh O’Connell © 2016 (ebook only)
– Courtship and Marriage in Jane Austen’s World by Maria Grace © 2016
– The Jane Austen Writer’s Club by Rebecca Smith © 2016
– Wealth or Poverty?: Jane Austen’s Novels Explored by Stephen Mahony © 2016
– Fan Phenomena: Jane Austen by Gabrielle Malcolm © 2015 – MY REVIEW
– The Jane Austen Files by Helen Amy © 2015
– A Jane Austen Christmas by Carlo DeVito © 2015 – MY REVIEW
– The Love of Strangers by Nile Green © 2015
– Say It Like Miss Austen: A Jane Austen Phrase Thesaurus by Stefan Scheuermann © 2015
– Finding Jane Austen in Bath by Sarah Zielinski © 2015
– Finding Darcy by Ellen Rose © 2015
– The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen by Janet Todd © 2015
– Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles, Persons, Places by Margaret Doody © 2015
– Fathers in Jane Austen by I. P. Duckfield © 2015
– As If!: The Oral History of Clueless by Jen Chaney © 2015
– Pride and Prejudice: Your Backstage Pass to Jane Austen’s Novel and Making of the BBC TV series starring Colin Firth by Jessica Long © 2015
– Young Jane Austen: Becoming a Writer by Lisa Pliscou © 2015 – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen and Bath by Terry Townsend © 2015
– Jane Austen’s Kent by Terry Townsend © 2015
– Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Classic Book Covers by Margaret C. Sullivan © 2014 – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen Possessions and Dispossessions: The Significance of Objects by Sandie Byrne © 2014
– The Jane Austen Rules by Sinead Murphy © 2014
– Jane Austen’s Worthing: The Real Sanditon by Antony Edmonds © 2014
– A Visitor’s Guide to Jane Austen’s England by Sue Wilkes © 2014
– The Hidden Jane Austen by John Wiltshire © 2014
– At Home with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson © 2014 – MY REVIEW
– Growing Old with Jane Austen by Maggie Lane © 2014
– Bitch in a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps, and the Saps Volume Two by Robert Rodi © 2014
– Jane Austen’s Erotic Advice by Sarah Raff © 2014
– Among the Janeites by Deborah Yaffe © 2013
– Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Younge Chwe © 2013
– Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity by Janine Barchas © 2013
– The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne © 2013
– Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 years of Jane Austen’s Darling Child by Hazel Jones and Maggie Lane © 2013
– What Matters in Jane Austen: 20 Crucial Puzzles Solved by John Mullan © 2013
– Celebrating Pride and Prejudice: 200 years of Jane Austen’s Masterpiece by Susannah Fullerton © 2013
– Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures by Claudia L. Johnson © 2012
– Understanding Austen: Key Concepts in the Six Novels by Maggie Lane © 2012
– Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination by Juliette Wells © 2012
– All Roads Lead to Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith © 2012 – MY REVIEW
– The Marriage of Faith by Laura Dabundo © 2012
– A Dance with Jane Austen by Susannah Fullerton © 2012 – MY REVIEW
– Bitch in a Bonnet: Reclaiming Jane Austen from the Stiffs, the Snobs, the Simps, and the Saps Volume One by Robert Rodi © 2012
– A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz © 2011
– Why Jane Austen? by Rachel Brownstein © 2011
– Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah-Jane Downing © 2010
– Jane Austen (Christian Encounter Series) by Peter J. Leithart © 2010 – MY REVIEW
– Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered The World by Claire Harman © 2010 – MY REVIEW
– A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen by Susannah Carson © 2009 ES – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love by Andrew Norman © 2009
– Jane Austen and Marriage by Hazel Jones © 2009
– In the Garden with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson © 2008 (reissued in 2011) – MY REVIEW
– Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler and Terrence Hill © 2008
– The Bedside, Bathtub, and Armchair Companion to Jane Austen by Carol Adams © 2008
– The Little Book of Jane Austen by Emily Wollaston © 2008
– Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence © 2007
– The Jane Austen Handbook by Margaret C. Sullivan © 2007 (reissued in 2011)– MY REVIEW
– What Jane Austen Taught Me About Love and Romance by Debra White Smith © 2007 – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen for Dummies by Joan Klingle Ray © 2006
– A Rambling Fancy: In the Footsteps of Jane Austen by Caroline Sanderson © 2006
– Jane Austen in Bath: Walking Tours of The Writer’s City by Katharine Reeve © 2006
– Jane Austen: A Life (Penguin Lives) by Carol Shields © 2005
– Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen by Peter J. Leithart © 2004
– Selected Letters by Jane Austen and Vivien Jones © 2004 (reissued in 2009) L
– Searching for Jane Austen by Emily Auerbach © 2004
– A Fine Brush of Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen by Richard Jenkyns © 2004
– Tea With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson © 2004 (reissued in 2011) – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen, a Treasury of Illustrations by Lee Crane © 2003
– Jane Austen on Screen by Gina and Andrew MacDonald © 2003
– In the Steps of Jane Austen: Walking Tours of Austen’s England by Anne-Marie Edwards © 2003
– What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool © 2003 (reissued in 2012)
– Jane Austen: A Companion by Josephine Ross © 2002
– Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye © 2002
– Jane Austen on Film and Television by Sue Parrill © 2002
– Jane Austen in Hollywood by Linda Troost © 2000
– Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomlin © 1999
– The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen by Edward Copeland © 1997
– Jane Austen’s World: The Life and Times of England’s Most Popular Author by Maggie Lane © 1996 (reissued in 2005 and 2013) – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen’s Christmas by Maria Hubert © 1996 (reissued in 2003) – MY REVIEW
– Jane Austen: In Style by Susan Watkins © 1996
– Jane Austen and Food by Maggie Lane © 2003 (reissued in 2003, 2007, 2013, and 2015)
– Only a Novel: The Double Life of Jane Austen by Jane Aiken Hodge © 1972 (reissued in 2014 and 2019) L
– More about Jane Austen by G.B. Stern © 1949 ES SS
– Jane Austen’s Letters by Jane Austen and Deirdre Le Faye © 1932 (reissued in 1952 and 1997) L
– A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections by James Edward Austen-Leigh © 1870 (reissued in 2002)
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Thank you ever so much for this list!! I will reference it often I’m sure!
You’re becoming an Austen treasure! I can see a time when your blog appears in the bibliographies of serious non-fiction works.
This just made my day! I’m bookmarking it, mailing it and saving it to reference 🙂 Thanks so much, Meredith!
A Truth Universally Acknowledged is excellent! I have the book at home, I read about 10 pages into it and I knew that it wasn’t just for serious readers. In fact, anyone can read it.
I personally recommend it!
Wow! What fantastic and lovely comments to brighten my day! Thank you all!
I am so glad that these lists are proving to be helpful. It makes all the work putting them together worthwhile!
The next one is Pride and Prejuidice, which will probably have to be broken up into a couple lists since it is so widely written about! I am VERY excited about it though!
Nicole – I have been reading A Truth Universeally Acknowledged bit by bit over the last month. It is proving to be a very insightful and enjoyable read! I look forward to hearing your thoughts about it!
Terrific list, Meredith!
I read “Jane Austen for Dummies” a few years ago and it was a very informative, insightful read (despite the somewhat derogatory title). For a general overview on JA’s work and her background, I would recommend it.
I own “What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew” and it’s a fantastic resource on the Regency era for readers, writers or lovers of that time period. It’s very helpful in explaining exactly what whist is or a cravat, for example.
I also own “The Friendly Jane Austen” which is a lighter version, in my opinion, of “Jane Austen for Dummies”. This book includes references on JA-inspired films as well as a breakdown of JA characters and thoughts from actors who have played those characters.
Again, thanks, Meredith! I will be updating my TBR list shortly. 🙂