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BOOK RIOTWhat Next? Three Books to Read After PRIDE & PREJUDICE. How does one even start to go about choosing recommendations based on a book like Pride & Prejudice?

BOOK RIOTWhat Next? Three Books to Read After PRIDE & PREJUDICE

You can’t step into a bookstore without tripping over adaptations of it, from North & South to Bridget Jones’s Diary, from Pride & Prejudice & Zombies to Spank Me, Mr. Darcy. I blame the 1995 miniseries starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle for the current popularity of Regency romances, and any Janeite worth his or her salt has read the original texts (probably more than once), seen the movies, read everything from fan fiction to fictionalized versions of Jane Austen’s life, and possibly even decided to read books by Austen’s contemporaries. BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After LOLITA. In What Next? BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. A few months ago, Book Riot asked readers to pick their Top 50 Favorite Novels, and The Count of Monte Cristo was number 29.

BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

I have to say, great choice! BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After THE BOOK THIEF. Ah, The Book Thief.

BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After THE BOOK THIEF

I bought it with Christmas money, and it was the first book I read in 2008. I just knew, upon finishing it, that I was about to embark on the greatest reading year of my life. (I turned out to be right.) This is the book I’ve recommended most often to friends, who have recommended it to their friends, those friends to theirs, and so on. BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After PERSUASION. Coming in on Book Riot Readers’ top 50 novels list at #21 is Persuasion.

BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After PERSUASION

Perhaps you all love the heartache, or maybe it’s the humor, possibly the suspense of not knowing until the very end what will happen with the protagonist. Assuming it’s all of the above, here are three books to check out next. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell A story about putting together a life in ordinary ways and baby steps. Reminiscent of the movie 500 Days of Summer in the fact that this is a unique love story told from a male perspective, Attachments is also a story about building the life you never expected but always wanted. Rainbow Rowell will have you laughing out loud, smiling with your heart, and rooting the leading man on in this fresh debut. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson The novel begins with Major’s brother passing away, and we are shortly after introduced to Mrs. BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte.

When Book Riot asked you what your favorite books were, Jane Eyre came out number three, just after To Kill a Mockingbird and Pride and Prejudice (though I’m of the opinion that Jane and Rochester could take Elizabeth and Darcy any day of the week, especially Sundays).

BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte

So you’ve read Jane Eyre a million times and seen all made-for-TV adaptations–what next? Here are a few literary stops you could take: 1. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys I’m not usually a fan of modern re-tellings of classics (get your own story, amirite), but Bronte’s madwoman in the attic really deserved her own narrative. 2. In early-1830s England, Molly lives with her adored widow of a father. 3. Where Charlotte Bronte’s England is dark, brooding, and Byronic, Eliot’s is realistic, razor-sharp, less dramatic but no less brilliant.

BOOK RIOTWhat Next? The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid’s Tale came in at #37 on the list of Riot Readers’ top 50 novels.

BOOK RIOTWhat Next? The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Atwood tells the story of a woman who is trying to make sense of what her life has become in the wake of a theocratic revolution. Once, she was a wife and mother. Now, she is merely a vessel, valued only for her fertility. If you were as fascinated by this look at a society where love is irrelevant and there are no such things as reproductive rights, then take a look at these titles: When She Woke by Hillary Jordan Many people have said that When She Woke is a retelling of or different take on The Handmaid’s Tale, but that’s not the case. The Children of Men by P.D. James tells the story of a society that has become infertile. Bumped by Megan McCafferty This is the first novel in a YA series that tackles the subject of reproductive rights from a very different angle. BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After THE GREAT GATSBY.

BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR. So you like Nineteen Eighty-Four?

BOOK RIOTWhat Next?: Three Books to Read After NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

Good. Among all the novels in the world, it is my personal favorite. Reading it ruined politicians for me. “Chocolate rations have been increased to 400 grams!” Will put any reduction of a citizens’ freedom in a positive light. But once one is done with a novel of such breadth and scope, one that affects readers so immensely, one is presented with a problem : What do I read now? Well, here are my suggestions for novels to read after Nineteen Eighty-Four. 1. This is the obvious one. The thing about both Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four that appeals especially to me is the fact that you can’t read them and not sense that the author is saying something, making a point about society that you can’t ignore. 2. Animal Farm is also a pretty obvious choice as a follow-up to Nineteen Eighty-Four. 3. The Dispossessed continues along the themes of dystopia and person-vs.