So You Think You Know Jane Austen?

10 best books like So You Think You Know Jane Austen? (John Sutherland): The Jane Austen Book Club, Kiss Kiss, Lady Susan, Them: Adventures with Extremists, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bluets, Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter, Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

The Jane Austen Book Club

Author	Karen Joy Fowler
ISBN	0452286530

The Extraordinary New York Times Bestseller In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the frailties...

Kiss Kiss

Author	Roald Dahl
ISBN	0140018328

Finally, a short-story collection by Dahl that didn't send me running for the hills

To put this into context, I've already read The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More & Switch Bitch and both were disturbing and misogynistic. Kiss Kiss was marginally better. Without further ado,...

Lady Susan

Author	Jane Austen
ISBN	0486444074

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

O Lady Susan Vernon, what a juicy jewel of a villainous character you are, a black diamond, repelling and fascinating at the same time, your wicked charm inspiring possibly an uncanny form of envy more than simple revulsion. Deceiving everyone...

Them: Adventures with Extremists

Author	Jon Ronson
ISBN	0743233212

From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.

A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret...

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Author	Roald Dahl
ISBN	0375822070

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GREG!!! YOU ARE OLD!!!! EVEN OLDER THAN LAST YEAR!

greg's birthday is today, so i am floating this now to remind you that you still have time to shower him with presents!

it is greg's birthday!!! and as a treat for him, i am going to create a book review in which i use plenty...

Bluets

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1933517409

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Author	Laura Thompson
ISBN	1784970875

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party;...

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Author	Janet Malcolm
ISBN	0679751408

It's true, every time I think about this book I tremble in awe and reverence. It's like major parts of the whole thing about how human beings are human are here in its little pages. All that who are you really and anyway who is the I asking this question and what do these marks signify on these pages which apparently...

The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter

Author	Matthew Dennison
ISBN	0312376987

An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother—a powerful and insightful look into two women of signifcant importance and infuence in world history.

Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince...

Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

Author	Jon Ronson
ISBN	1594631375

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane circumstances.

Ronson investigates the strange things...