- Reading Challenge Pick
Literary Fiction
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
An orphaned governess refuses, repeatedly, to be made smaller than she is.
Romance
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
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- Reading Challenge Pick
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misread each other for most of a novel that invented the modern love story.
- Genre
- Romance
- Audience
- Adult
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- Classic
- Enemies to lovers
- Social comedy
About the book
Austen's comedy of manners follows the five Bennet sisters through courtship, class and consequence in Regency England. Its wit is sharper than its reputation suggests, and its central pair set the template for two centuries of romance.
Why we recommend it
The best possible entry point to the classics: funny, fast in dialogue, and still the sharpest study of first impressions in English fiction.
Reading challenge selection
Prompt: A Book Published in a Previous Decade
A reading challenge should include at least one book that has already outlasted every trend. This is that book.
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Literary Fiction
The Great Gatsby
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