My Ranking of Jane Austen's Novels! 📚 *includes rants and spoilers!*

In which I let you in on ALL my Jane Austen opinions... Enjoy!
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PUBLICATION ORDER:
- Sense and Sensibility (1811)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Mansfield Park (1814)
- Emma (1815)
- Northanger Abbey (1817)
- Persuasion (1817)

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[paging_snidget]

Agreed that Fanny Price is a strong character. My issue with her is that she is never wrong. We don’t really see any personal growth. I also agree that Edward Ferrars is a wet blanket and that Colonel Brandon makes a better partner for her. Henry Tilney is a delight. Emma and P&P keep swapping places as my favourite. I think a Emma is her most accomplished novel whereas P&P is her most enjoyable.

[PagesAndStages]

I have only read S&S so far so I’m not gonna watch cos spoilers, but I hope you’re having a good day and it’s lovely to see you back in my sub feed!

[lisa]

I’m afraid I actually gasped aloud when you said Persuasion- not only is it my favourite Jane Austen but my favourite book of all time! However whatever way you rank them it will always be controversial 😂 not sure if I can forgive you for not being able to tell the Crofts apart from the other characters though, I think Admiral Croft is my favourite side character, he’s so funny! But I just think Persuasion just really ‘suits’ my reading taste. Also thanks for the reminder on how naughty Elizabeth can be - now I want to go back and read it again, after all it’s been a good few months 😁

[esthertaylor]

Until recently I considered Persuasion to be my second favourite (obviously P&P is fav) but I recently re-read Emma, MP and Persuasion and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed MP. Fanny is an excellent character. I just wish that Edmund had more of a realisation that he actually loves her. That they end of together is a bit like an afterthought! I studied Northanger Abbey so totally agree with you on that. I need to read S&S again as at this current time that is my least favourite. So my ranking is P&P, MP, Emma, NA, Persuasion (still love it though) and then S&S.

[kevinrosero]

Very interesting points here about adaptations and Lizzie, and I love the love here for Mansfield Park/Fanny and Northanger Abbey

[ninarg]

100% agree with you on Persuasion. For me it lacks the social commentary, humour, character development and unforgettable characters that we find in her other novels. I wish I could love Persuasion like I love her other novels, but it just doesn't work for me.

My best friend loves Persuasion and thinks Emma is fine but not great, whereas I am obsessed with Emma and the more I analyse it the more I'm convinced it is the best book ever written 😊Thank God for Austen and her wonderful novels, there's something here for everybody 😁

[screenaholic]

I agree about the Pride and Prejudice adaptions. I don't think I have seen a spot performance of Elizabeth or Darcy. I do love both adaptions though.

[Derezzination]

Persuasion: Boring, no time for pretentious people who are like bUT ITs maTURe 😴
S&S: Technically great! But dead inside 💀
P&P: It’s okay 🤷‍♂️
Emma: Most ‘intelligent’ - the ‘I’m an English Lit Student’ pick - also Emma is Great character 💁‍♀️
Northanger Abbey: actually fun and Sharp and no time wasted rip Gothic fiction lovers 🧏‍♀️👻
Mansfield Park: v.g. Fanny is Austen’s best ‘character study’ and some great moral philosophy on show and shows Austen’s Frances Burney influence - justice for Fanny she’s definitely an Earth sign !! Also the first 100pages is some really good Realism

[Nataliecj]

We have the same favourite, I don’t care if it’s basic, Pride and Prejudice is the best. It’s a delight from start to finish. It’s the most readable and exciting of her books and Elizabeth and Mr Darcy together is just perfection.

It wounds me that you have Persuasion in last, it’s my second favourite. I am partial to the letter, I have to say 😂 Third would be Sense and Sensibility, then Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Emma. I have to do a reread. I like them all though, and although Emma is my least favourite of her books, I love the adaptations.

[SpinstersLibrary]

How dare you complain about Anne Elliot being bland when Fanny Price is right there being the literary equivalent to a jar of mayonnaise 😱 Really though, I love a Jane Austen ranking video and loved this one in particular, even though my ranking would be a bit different from yours. You talk about the books so well, I find myself nodding along to criticism I totally disagree with 😅 though to be fair, our top three are actually the exact same. I am totally with you on Sense and Sensibility. I feel like the Emma Thompson film fixes a lot of the issues in the book. Wow, your view on the characterisation of Elizabeth Bennet is so interesting and I will pay more attention to that on my next reread. The book is absolutely perfect.

[Pagesforwings]

We have basically the exact same opinions!! And now I want to read them all again!

[RoisinsReading]

I think by "mature" people mean complex when talking about Persuasion. It's Austen's most complex class commentary and her only one were the heroine marries a man beneath her (yes he's rich now but she's landed gentry and he's earned his money) It's also even more of a deconstruction of the romantic novel of the period than something like sense and sensibility or pride and prejudice, it riffs on the tragic heroine with the girl who falls and bashes her head and with the sailor who moons over poetry. Theres a lot under the surface in persuasion, even more than the other novels.

Also I don't like Mansfield Park because Edmund is a dick, and he doesn't love Fanny, he loves Mary but is so judgemental of women and their morality. He's a slut shaming self involved knob head

[thetbrdiaries]

Yayy I missed you! 💖 I'm 27 in two months so less of the spinster talk please 😂 
I am yet to read all of her works but I do agree that the movie of S&S makes certain characters more romantic and likeable than they are in text. Can't wait to re-read P&P with the I Should've Read That bookclub in September! 💕