I love reading family sagas, but it's hard to identify just what draws me in. I love developed characters, and…
Jo Baker's Longbourn promises to be Pride and Prejudice told from the servants' perspective, but this isn't the cute Austen-inspired…
When The Better Liar begins, Leslie's father's will gives a large inheritance to each daughter, on the condition that both…
Rose Servitova's new novel The Watsons continues Jane Austen's unfinished work. Austen's draft was just a few chapters, introducing the…
I read My Sister, The Serial Killer in one sitting, partly because it's short but mostly because of all the…
I love Little Women and I doubly-loved this NYC/North Carolina reinvention in Meg and Jo. This story focuses on the…
Last summer, I went to see Three Identical Strangers, a documentary about identical triplets who were separated at birth and…
I first discovered Jennifer Weiner when my college roommate lent me Good in Bed, so I've been reading Weiner for…
Lisa See’s newest novel, The Island of Sea Woman, takes place on Korea’s Jeju Island, where women divers support themselves…
Ayesha At Last is described as a modern Muslim Pride and Prejudice, which is really all it takes to make…
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi begins with the story of two half-sisters in the 1700s in what's now Ghana. One of…
Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice is graphic version of P&P, plus with gorgeous hairstyles, spastic Mrs. Bennett, and — most importantly…
Grad school hasn't left me a lot of time for my side project, where I read and review Pride and…
What Kitty Did Next by Carrie Kablean is another Pride and Prejudice reimagining. This time, it's focused on Kitty Bennet. Without Lydia,…
White Chrysanthemum tells the story of two sisters in Japanese-occupied Korea. When the story opens, their family is living on…
The Spring Girls by Anna Todd is a modern retelling of Little Women, which is, let's be honest, every little girl's…
I'd reserved Heather Lynn Rigaud's Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star from the library a while ago, because of course someone else…
I picked up Pamela Mingle's The Pursuit of Mary Bennet after reading The Bennet Sisters' lovely review. I thought poor…
When her little sister’s best friend is accused of murder, rumpled apprentice investigator Sunny Truly is determined to find the…
Pictured here is my latest round of holds: More Austen spinoffs, a Hamlet Choose-Your-Own-Adventure I heard about on Tumblr, it's…
I have mixed feelings about Colleen McCullough. On one hand, she wrote the well-researched and racy Caesar’s Women and other…
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick is a novelization of the video series, but…