Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast

41:06

Mark of Character - By Sarah Courtney

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/10/05

Emilie doesn't believe in soulmates. Which makes it a little strange that she is such a sucker for soul mark stories! Give Darcy and Elizabeth matching tattoos, matching magical melodies, or some other cosmic indication that they are absolutely, unequivocally meant to be together, and she will eat. it. up!Which makes this week's story a great fit. Sharon and Emilie are discussing Sarah Courtney's Mark of Character, a Pride and Prejudice variation where people with a close tie to the land are born

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46:05

Darcy's Marriage Pact - By Cat Gardiner

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/09/28

What if Darcy marrying Caroline Bingley...actually wouldn’t be that bad? We know. We KNOW. But somehow that’s where we ended up while discussing Darcy’s Marriage Pact by Cat Gardiner, a modern Pride and Prejudice variation in which Darcy, heartbroken after losing Elizabeth, enters into a legally binding marriage pact with his best friend’s sister, Beanz (aka this story’s Caroline Bingley). There are rules, there are clauses, and there are subsections that include a $1.5 million wedding budget. And

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48:22

Homeless - By Alix James

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/09/21

Is surviving together the same thing as falling in love?In Alix James’s Homeless, Elizabeth is stranded in Spain after Mr. Gardiner has been kidnapped, Darcy is in Spain trying to save Pemberley, and a marriage of convenience may be the only way for them to survive. But Elizabeth really, really doesn’t like Darcy. When two people face kidnappings, bureaucrats, financial ruin, malaria, and a seemingly endless journey across Spain together, does surviving all of that bring them closer...or just give

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20:15

Checking In (Listener Feedback Request)

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/09/14

Welcome to the Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast! I'm glad you're here. But...why are you here?As the podcast creeps closer to its 200th episode, Emilie (me) is taking a moment to ask some bigger questions about the show: Why did I start this podcast in the first place? What has made it worth doing for nearly four years? And where do we go from here? To help me think it through, I invited my husband Logan to turn the tables and ask me the questions for a change. We talk about why the books I

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78:02

Revisiting The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy (With...

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/09/07

A book so nice (and full of spice), we read it TWICE!Emilie is joined this week by special guest Elizabeth Adams to discuss "one of the O.G. modern variations," (Elizabeth's words) also known as The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy by Sara Angelini. This story has been read by the fandom in some form or another for almost twenty years, and it's pretty clear that there are a lot of fans. While we have done a previous episode on this story, we heard listeners loud and clear: they wanted MORE! So

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41:28

BONUS: Pride And Prejudice - A New Musical

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/08/31

We’re taking a slight detour this week to watch something Emilie has had her eye on for quite a while: a musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice! As a musical theatre kid, she could only resist a singing Darcy for so long. Joining her is her husband, Logan, who has made a few guest appearances on the podcast but has never had the co-host’s chair all to himself. Logan loved the musical and wanted to sing along; Emilie was slightly more picky. But they both found plenty to enjoy! From finally

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38:42

Let's Talk About Reading, Listening, and Loving...

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/08/24

How much does how we read change what we read? Is the book we hear actually the same book as the one we read? We like to think our opinion of a book is about the story itself. But what if the format matters more than we realize?We discuss all this and more as Janette Colon returns to the podcast for a conversation about the many ways we experience our favorite Pride and Prejudice variations. We're talking about physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks; which books we liked more (or less!) after

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39:14

Faceless - By Alix James

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/08/17

Ok, let's make this clear up front: this will not be your favorite episode of this podcast. It probably won't even crack your top ten. But it is a very, very necessary episode of the podcast, because we *have* to talk about Faceless by Alix James!We have found (through sad experience) that the more we love a book, the more...repetitive...an episode can become. But if we can't rave about a book to you, wonderful book clubbers, then who can we rave to? You know how much we love Elizabeth and Darcy

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38:32

Mr Darcy's Persuasion - By Ada Bright and Cass Grafton

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/08/10

Two Austen heroines. Two very different temperaments. One surprisingly delightful friendship. Last week, Ada Bright and Cass Grafton told us that friendship is the connective thread running through all their books. This week, we got to see that idea in action as Elizabeth Bennet and Anne Elliot meet in Mr. Darcy’s Persuasion and quickly discover just how much they enjoy one another. Of course, friendship isn’t the only relationship at the heart of this story. Anne is reunited with an injured Captain

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45:13

Author Interview - Ada Bright and Cass Grafton

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/08/03

From laughing in an online forum to immortalization in fiction, this friendship was built to last!On today’s podcast, Emilie had the awesome opportunity to sit down with longtime friends and writing partners Ada Bright and Cass Grafton. They met more than twenty years ago through a Harry Potter fandom forum, discovered a shared love of Pride and Prejudice, and eventually wrote their friendship right into The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen. Their writing partnership stretches from California

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38:13

Behind Five Willows - By June Hur

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2026/07/27

What if reading Pride and Prejudice could get you arrested?In June Hur’s Behind Five Willows, fiction is forbidden, books are copied and circulated in secret, and the person who understands you best may be someone you’ve never actually met. Described by the author as “Pride and Prejudice meets You’ve Got Mail in Joseon Dynasty Korea,” this book gave us familiar Lizzie-and-Darcy energy in a setting unlike anything we’ve encountered before. In this episode, we talk about the real history behind the

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39:06

Author Interview: M. Verant

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/07/20

You can tell a lot about a person by the books they read... and by how many Jane Austen action figures they own.(Let's just say both participants in this interview have a non-zero number.) In this episode, Emilie sits down with M. Verant, author of the Miss Bennet's Dragon trilogy, and discovers the history buff, hopeless romantic, fantasy world-builder, and lifelong Austen fan behind the books. Their conversation wanders through dragons, Regency England, favorite film adaptations, overlooked

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38:36

Revisiting Unfounded with Rachael Dague

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/07/13

Some books are so good you can't help but reread them over and over again. And when they're really good, you discover something new every time. That's exactly what happened when listener Rachael Dague joined Emilie as a guest co-host to revisit Unfounded by Jessie Lewis. Everyone already knows Emilie is a huge Jessie Lewis fan (with Mistaken still narrowly holding the top spot), but Unfounded isn't far behind. This episode is definitely a gushy one, filled with our favorite moments (romantic and

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35:21

The Other Bennet Sister - Episodes 8-10

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/07/06

It's time to say goodbye to The Other Bennet Sister. Not gonna lie, we're genuinely sad to see this series end! (Well... mostly. We do have a Christmas special to look forward to in December!) We've developed a genuine affection for adorable corner of the Pride and Prejudice-adjacent world. In this podcast episode, we talk about our favorite beats, how much we love Tanya Reynolds (the actress who plays Caroline Bingley), some of the differences from the book that we spotted in the series, and the

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42:52

Courting By The Book - An Interview with Jeff Bigler,...

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/06/29

This week we're joined by not one, not two, but three Jane Austen Fan Fiction authors! Jeff Bigler, Leigh Dreyer, and Diane Ferguson stop by the podcast to talk about Courting by the Book, a one-of-a-kind collaborative anthology where eleven authors tell an interconnected Pride & Prejudice story, each bringing their own voice, favorite tropes, and creative twists to the journey. From the initial brainstorming sessions to developmental editing involving authors in multiple countries, this

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33:30

The Other Bennet Sister - Episodes 5-7

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/06/22

Sharon has reached the "six rewatches and a conspiracy board" stage of binge watching! This week we're diving into Episodes 5–7 of The Other Bennet Sister, where Mary finds confidence in London...then promptly manages to lose it again. Mr. Ryder makes a very indecent proposal, Elizabeth and Mary share one of the series' best conversations (the actors definitely brought their A-game to that scene!), and we continue to wonder what, exactly, is going on in Tom's head. What started as pure delight has

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34:37

A Timeless Love - By Heather Moll

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/06/15

When Heather Moll announced a sequel to Nine Ladies, you probably heard our squeals of delight reverberating across the internet! This week we're talking about A Timeless Love, a surprise return to one of our favorite Pride & Prejudice inspired stories.The sequel revisits Darcy and Elizabeth 13 years after their extraordinary journey through time, and is full of all the same wonderful character moments we loved in the original. If you haven't read Nine Ladies, go read it right now! Then come

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33:37

The Other Bennet Sister - Episodes 2-4

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/06/08

After an unexpected recording delay (thanks, laryngitis!), we're back to discuss Episodes 2-4 of The Other Bennet Sister and we're having an absolute blast. We recap Mary's heartbreaking experience at the Netherfield Ball, Charlotte Lucas's practical (but devious) advice, Mrs. Bennet's increasingly frustrating behavior, and the friendships that begin to transform Mary's world. We also talk about the show's thoughtful portrayal of loneliness, belonging, and what happens when someone finally finds

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48:35

Stranded With Mr Darcy - By Lin Mei Wei

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/06/01

An island alone with Mr Darcy? Where do we sign up???When Elizabeth and Darcy find themselves stranded together on a remote island, author Lin Mei Wei delivers some delicious dynamics between our main couple that had us frantically turning the pages! How close can Darcy and Elizabeth get when they are removed from society and only have each other to rely on (but still want maintain "propriety")? Of course, eventually they have to return to civilization...and that's where things get a bit more

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39:51

The Other Bennet Sister - Episode 1

Pride & Prejudice Book Club Podcast ·

2026/05/25

After months of avoiding spoilers, resisting the temptation to get a VPN, surviving the weekly release schedule, and impatiently waiting for BritBox to let us have more than three episodes, we’re finally talking about The Other Bennet Sister! Suffice it to say… we’re in love 🥰 This week, we're diving into Episode One of the new BBC adaptation based on the novel by Janice Hadlow. We’re sharing first impressions, adaptation thoughts, favorite moments, unexpected emotions, and all of our completely

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