Jane Austen Reading Order
8 series · 106 books · Born 1775-12-16
Jane Austen stands as one of English literature's most celebrated novelists, known for her sharp social commentary and witty portrayals of Regency-era romance and marriage. Her six completed novels, including the iconic Pride and Prejudice and Emma, feature intelligent heroines navigating courtship and society with humor and keen observation, though Austen herself never married. Published anonymously during her lifetime, her work has since become foundational to literary fiction, influencing countless writers with her elegant prose, ironic narrative voice, and penetrating character development.
Anthologies Series
Likely Complete9 books (1952–2023)
Start with Identity And Self Respect, the first of 8 books in the Anthologies series.
Start this series with Identity And Self Respect
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Identity And Self Respect |
| 2 | 50 Classic Novellas |
| 3 | A Literary Christmas: An Anthology |
| 4 | Writers: Their Lives and Works |
| 5 | 30 Eternal Masterpieces of Humorous Stories |
| 6 |  Women Who Wrote |
| 7 | Love, Lust and Passion in Regency Times |
| 8 | The Bridgerthonian Novels |
| 9 | The Greatest Tales of Regency Romance |
Collections Series
Complete3 books (1989–2021)
Start with Catharine and Other Writings and read in order.
Start this series with Catharine and Other Writings
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Catharine and Other Writings |
| 2 | The Jane Austen Collection |
| 3 | Lady Susan, the Watsons, and Sanditon: Unfinished Fictions and Other Writings |
ERIS Gems Series
Ongoing34 books (1880–2026)
Start with The Right to Be Lazy(By: Paul Lafargue), the first of 34 books in the ERIS Gems series.
Start this series with The Right to Be Lazy(By: Paul Lafargue)
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Right to Be Lazy(By: Paul Lafargue) |
| 2 | The Vice of Reading(By: Edith Wharton) |
| 3 | The Theme of the Three Caskets(By: Sigmund Freud) |
| 4 | The Invisible Collection(By: Stefan Zweig) |
| 5 | Unpacking My Library(By: Walter Benjamin) |
| 6 | The Lottery in Babylon(By: Jorge Luis Borges) |
| 7 | The Glory of the Rails(By: Tony Judt) |
| 8 | Essay on the Art of Crawling(By: Paul-Henri Thiry) |
| 9 | A Modest Proposal(By: Jonathan Swift) |
| 10 | A Load of Shit(By: John Berger) |
| 11 | Apocolocyntosis(By: Seneca The Younger) |
| 12 | Justice in Palestine(By: Mahatma Gandhi) |
| 13 | The 1854 Oration(By: Chief Seattle) |
| 14 | The American Dream Is at the Expense of the American Negro(By: James Baldwin) |
| 15 | Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant(By: David Graeber) |
| 16 | Contempt is a Dangerous Way to Lead a Country(By: Mariann Edgar Budde) |
| 17 | Death of a Prince(By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa) |
| 18 | In Praise of Cosmetics(By: Charles Baudelaire) |
| 19 | On Talkativeness(By: Plutarch,W. C. Helmbold) |
| 20 | The Communist of Montmartre(By: Michael Kleeberg) |
| 21 | The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude(By: Étienne de La Boétie) |
| 22 | The Glow of the Dim(By: Jun'ichirĹŤ Tanizaki) |
| 23 | The Spirit of Monarchy(By: William Hazlitt) |
| 24 | Tyranny of Style(By: Arnold Schoenberg) |
| 25 | What Is Fear?(By: Giorgio Agamben) |
| 26 | Whose Body?(By: Judith Jarvis Thomson) |
| 27 | Decadent, Stricken, Dying(By: Aimé Césaire) |
| 28 | Face to Face(By: C.G. Jung) |
| 29 | From Protest to Politics(By: Bayard Rustin) |
| 30 | Individualism and Conformism in the United States(By: Jean-Paul Sartre) |
| 31 | On the Fragility of Life(By: Nick Cave) |
| 32 | The Case Against Travel(By: Agnes Callard) |
| 33 | What We Owe One Another(By: Simone Weil) |
| 34 | What's in a Name(By: Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss) |
Juvenilia Series
Likely Complete2 books (1787–2021)
Start with Juvenilia Volume I Annotated and read in order.
Start this series with Juvenilia Volume I Annotated
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Juvenilia Volume I Annotated |
| 2 | Juvenilia Volume II Annotated |
Modern Library Torchbearers Series
Ongoing41 books (1818–2026)
Start with Persuasion, the first of 39 books in the Modern Library Torchbearers series.
Start this series with Persuasion
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Persuasion |
| 2 |  Wuthering Heights(By: Emily Brontë) |
| 3 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(By: Harriet Ann Jacobs) |
| 4 |  Lady Audley's Secret(By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon) |
| 5 | The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings(By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman) |
| 6 |  The Awakening(By: Kate Chopin) |
| 7 |  The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories(By: Alice Dunbar-Nelson) |
| 8 | The Custom of the Country(By: Edith Wharton) |
| 9 |  The Voyage Out(By: Virginia Woolf) |
| 10 |  Regiment of Women(By: Clemence Dane,Melissa Broder) |
| 11 | The Heads of Cerberus(By: Francis Stevens) |
| 12 | Powder And Patch / The Transformation of Philip Jettan(By: Georgette Heyer) |
| 13 | The Transformation of Philip Jettan(By: Georgette Heyer) |
| 14 | A Daughter of the Samurai(By: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto) |
| 15 |  Bread Givers(By: Anzia Yezierska) |
| 16 |  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(By: Anita Loos) |
| 17 |  Quicksand(By: Nella Larsen) |
| 18 |  Passing(By: Nella Larsen) |
| 19 |  Nada(By: Carmen Laforet) |
| 20 |  The Return of the Soldier(By: Rebecca West) |
| 21 |  The Selected Poetry(By: Edna St. Vincent Millay,Olivia Gatwood,Nancy Milford) |
| 22 |  Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy(By: Marie Vieux-Chauvet) |
| 23 | American Indian Stories(By: Ziktala-Sa) |
| 24 |  Narrative Of Sojourner Truth(By: Sojourner Truth,Oliver Gilbert) |
| 25 |  The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa(By: Sawako Nakayasu,Chika Sagawa) |
| 26 |  There Is Confusion(By: Jessie Redmon Fauset) |
| 27 | Villette(By: Charlotte Brontë) |
| 28 |  Mrs. Spring Fragrance: and Other Writings(By: C Pam Zhang,Sui Sin Far) |
| 29 |  The Southern Woman: Selected Fiction(By: Elizabeth Spencer) |
| 30 |  The Squatter and the Don(By: Ana Castillo,MarĂa Amparo Ruiz de Burton) |
| 31 |  The Princess of 72nd Street(By: Elaine Kraf) |
| 32 |  Find Him!(By: Elaine Kraf) |
| 33 |  I Am Clarence(By: Sarah Manguso,Elaine Kraf) |
| 34 | Lolly Willowes or, the loving huntsman(By: Sylvia Townsend Warner) |
| 35 |  Plum Bun Without a Moral(By: Jessie Redmon Fauset) |
| 36 |  The House of Madelaine(By: Elaine Kraf) |
| 37 |  A Country Doctor(By: Sarah Orne Jewett) |
| 38 | Goodbye, Ramona(By: Montserrat Roig) |
| 39 | Memory House(By: Elaine Kraf) |
| 40 | Nothing Grows by Moonlight(By: Torborg Nedreaas) |
| 41 |  The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield(By: Katherine Mansfield,Sloane Crosley) |
Non-Fiction Series
Likely Complete4 books (2017–2023)
Start with A Memoir of Jane Austen, the first of 4 books in the Non-Fiction series.
Start this series with A Memoir of Jane Austen
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  A Memoir of Jane Austen |
| 2 | The Wit and Wisdom of Jane Austen |
| 3 |  The Letters of Jane Austen |
| 4 | Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom |
Short Stories/Novellas Series
Complete5 books (1787–1794)
Start with Love and Freindship, the first of 4 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.
Start this series with Love and Freindship
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  Love and Freindship |
| 2 | Frederic and Elfrida |
| 3 |  Lesley Castle: An Unfinished Novel In Letters |
| 4 |  The Beautifull Cassandra |
| 5 |  Lady Susan |
Standalone Novels Series
Complete8 books (1804–1818)
Start with The Watsons, the first of 8 books in the Standalone Novels series.
Start this series with The Watsons
Buy Book 1 🇺🇸🎧 Listen free on Audible| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 |  The Watsons |
| 2 |  Sense and Sensibility |
| 3 |  Pride and Prejudice |
| 4 |  Mansfield Park |
| 5 |  Emma |
| 6 | Sanditon |
| 7 |  Northanger Abbey |
| 8 | Persuasion |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Jane Austen written?
- Jane Austen has written 106 books across 8 series. Their published works span from 1787 to 2026.
- What is the first book in each Jane Austen series?
- Here are the first books in Jane Austen's series: Anthologies: Identity And Self Respect; Collections: Catharine and Other Writings; ERIS Gems: The Right to Be Lazy(By: Paul Lafargue); Juvenilia: Juvenilia Volume I Annotated; Modern Library Torchbearers: Persuasion.
- What order should I read Jane Austen's books?
- We recommend reading Jane Austen's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Is Jane Austen still writing new books?
- Yes, Jane Austen has 2 ongoing series: ERIS Gems, Modern Library Torchbearers.