JASNA NorCal Reading Group

This group meets every second Tuesday except for December from 6:30 pm to 8 pm (Pacific) on Zoom. Check the Regional Events page for registration information.

2025 Schedule and Selections

January 14: The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque: A Critical Edition for Readers of Jane Austen (in conversation with Ben Wiebracht)

February 11: Valentine’s event

March 11: Natalie Tyler, The Friendly Jane Austen: A Well-Mannered Introduction to a Lady of Sense and Sensibility

April 8: Gill Horby, Miss Austen

May 13: Sybil Brinton, Old Friends and New Francies: An Imaginary Sequel to the

Novels of Jane Austen; Rudyard Kipling, “The Janeites”; Rudyard Kipling, “Jane’s Marriage”; Active 19th Century Lady of Distinction, The Mirror of the Graces

June 10: Laurie Horowitz, The Family Fortune

July 8: Persuasions articles (TBD)

August 12: Natalie Jenner, Austen at Sea (out May 6)

September 9: Caroline Jane Knight, Jane & Me: My Austen Heritage

October 14: Tirzah Price, Manslaughter Park

November 11: Rebecca Romney, Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s   Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

Past Selections

Appiah-Kubi, Eden, Her Own Happiness

Barron, Stephanie, Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas

Brodey, Inger S. B., Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness

Carson, Susannah (editor), A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

Chau, C. K., Good Fortune,

Dev, Sonali, Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors

Edgeworth, Maria, The Absentee

Ford, Susan Allen, What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why)

Hadlow, Janice, The Other Bennet Sister

Hale, Shannon, Austenland: A Novel

Hornby, Gill, Godmersham Park

Jalaluddin, Uzma, Ayesha at Last

Johnson Kindred, Sheila, Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen

Kelley, Helena, Jane Austen, the Secret Radical

Kim, A. H., Relative Strangers

Looser, Devoney, The Making of Jane Austen

Morrison, Robert, The Regency Years, During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love and Britain Becomes Modern

Mullan, John, What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

Smith, Amy Elizabeth, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane

Taub, Melinda, The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

Tei Yamashita, Karen, Sansei and Sensibility

Trollope, Joanne, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel

Wells, Juliette, A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist

Wilson, Ruth, The Jane Austen Remedy

Worsley, Lucy, Jane Austen at Home

Yaffe, Deborah, Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom