Deanne’s review of The Other Lizzie Bennet: Little Duck Pond Cafe, Book 44 > Likes and Comments

Start with either Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, or Persuasion (my personal fave). They have the more typical story lines. Only if you love those three would I say move onto others. Also, bear in mind she wasn't writing "romance" she's actually poking fun at her world, she's really sarcastically funny actually. The movies turn them more into romances than they actually are. Not that I don't love the pairings, but readers going in hoping for a romance as we think of it now, will miss the real essence of her writing in my opinion. If I were to suggest an order either P&P (the one most people know/love probably because of the most memorable cast) or Persuasion (the letter at the end is one of my favorite things ever written) as 1st/2nd, then S&S (the "main" hero has very little page time in this novel, it's more about the sisters), Northanger Abbey (gothic novel spoof) or Emma (Austen's attempt to create an unlikeable heroine), then Mansfield Park (a little edgy, an almost MarySue heroine with not the most heroic lead), last Lady Susan and the rest of Austen's juvenilia (you can see how sarcastic and biting Austen's wit was in these she wrote as a teen, chocked full of melodrama and not very subtle social commentary. They're a bit over the top and not as polished, but fun).