As the year winds down, it’s time for the reviewers here on Austenprose to reflect upon our past year of Austen-inspired reading/reviewing and compile our annual Top 20 Austen-inspired Books of 2012.
This year we will be adding a new category entitled Readers Choice which will include the Top 5 choices from our reader poll. Below is a list the 60 Austen-inspired books published or reviewed here in 2012. It also includes the balance of the books we will be reviewing in December. It is a totally awesome selection from Austenesque and Regency fiction and nonfiction. We have added the list to the poll, with the option for readers to add their favorite Austenesque books that we did not read and review that were published in 2012.
Let your voice be heard and vote for your favorite. One vote per IP address. The poll will be open until January 31st to allow books published in December to be considered.
UPDATE: It appears that the write in votes are not working as planned, so if you have an additional title you would like added to the poll, please leave a comment and I will add it to the list.
Have fun and good luck to all the authors.
© Laurel Ann Nattress, Austenprose
Aia HY
Christina B.
Br. Paul Byrd, OP
Jeffrey
RegencyRomantic
Katie P.
Lisa Galek
Lucy Warriner
Sarah Emsley
shelleydewees
Virginia Claire
Veronica Monique
Kimberly (Reflections of a Book Addict)
Oh, dear! With a list this long, full of wonderful books, how is a girl to choose? :) looking forward to seeing he the votes go!
OH.MY! I’ve got to get caught up, so I can vote! Great list!
Laurel– any chance Jane Austen and the Archangel can be added to the poll? It’s getting fab reviews….
Thanks Pamela, it has been added.
Thanks Laurel! Love your blog!
I haven’t read any of those!
What a lovely list.
So many books, So little time.
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I’m proud of Imperative, but I’m a little prejudiced. I know, I know, that was terrible. :-)
I voted for you!!!
That’s so nice of you! Thank you, Laura!
too many choices….I loved many and hadn’t read a few…so it was a coin toss between my favorites…
I was not able to vote because my favorite book is not – well, books are not listed. That would be the trilogy by Pamela Aidan – Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman. I read Pride and Prejudice every January (makes the winter more bearable!) and along with it I read the trilogy. They complement each other so well! I realize these books were not written in 2012, but I believe I saw them mentioned or reviewed at one point.
I think this list is just from those AustenProse has reviewed and featured this year. I have read many of them– and my trouble was picking just one for my favorite for this past year! But if that’s my most difficult decision this morning, I consider myself blessed;))
I loved those books as well. I also liked Linda Berdoli’s series.
I’ve only read a few of those on the list but I voted for Glamour in Glass. I really like the series so far.
I am so surprised that you have not read any on the list but Glamor in Glass. You are such an avid reader. Have you been reading other genres?
It was great fun to review these books
of the 2012 year and to have a list of what I
still want to read! Great idea!! Thank you,
but it was SO hard to choose…
That was tough! I ended up picking one of about five that I thought were great. So many deserving authors!
As I gazed at this list, two things struck me:
1. I was ‘all astonishment’ at the overall quality of the offerings. Janeite writers and their readers must be a cut above, don’t you think?
2. Are you kidding? Trying to pick out a single favorite was all but impossible for this chik-lit-man-fan and uncurable romantic.
Oh my goodness…I voted but I have not read so many of these. However now I have the perfect list to go down to correct that situation! Thanks Laurel Ann!
There are soooo many good ones. But for its unique style and killer humor, “Compulsively Mr. Darcy!”
Personally, I loved Diana Peterfreund’s For Darkness Shows the Stars. It’s a postapocalyptic story inspired by Persuasion and was really great! Highly original but wonderfully familiar at the same time- it was fun to pick out the parallels between the two books.
Ohhh– sounds wonderful. Wonder if she considers it ‘paranormal’– I realize that with my book, Jane Austen and the Archangel, that some consider it such, but to me it has a different flavor, not so dark. I look foward to reading Diana’s book, thanks for the tip!
Personally, I loved For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund. It is a post-apocalyptic story based on Persuasion- highly original but wonderfully familiar at the same time. It was fun to pick out the parallels between the two books!
Oh my, I didn’t realize there were so many books inspired by Jane Austen written this year! My Christmas reading list just expanded:)
You forgot my own Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy’s Dreadful Secret….
*sad* :-)
It was not forgotten Vera. This list is of books that were reviewed on Austenprose in 2012. There are hundreds of Austen-inspired book that were published in 2012. We could not possibly review them all. As stated in the post, if you want it added all you needed to do is ask. I have added it today. Thanks for visiting.
Thanks, Laurel Ann! :-) I guess I am just a bit sensitive about this well-written book being ignored by everyone, and NO ONE has agreed to even look at it or review it, after I desperately put my *all* into writing it. Thanks again… And I do realize that you do everything possible to review and get the word on our books out there, so thank you kindly for everything you do!
I’m dreadfully behind on my Austenprose reading! I had no idea there were so many published this year! A New Year’s resolution is in the works.
I am thinking the same thing! 📚
Sharon Lathan is my favorite author of The Darcy Saga seven volume sequel series to Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. But, I just realized Sharon’s last book out was in 2011 and on waiting for 2013 release. I have not read any of the sequels listed above to vote on. I would love to hear which author you think I should also try. XoxoX
Could you add “An Honorable Man” please?
Hi Teresita, are you referring to Fitzwilliam Darcy An Honourable Man, by Brenda J Webb? If so, it was published in 2011 so it would not qualify for the best of 2012 list. If it is another book, could you kindly give me more details? Thanks, LA
I really enjoyed Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Rigaud
One of my favorites is not listed either “Forbidden Love” by Brenda Webb. I would love to see that listed here. It was wonderful book.
I vote for “Falling for Mr. Darcy” by KaraLynne Makrory