The 14 Best Pride and Prejudice Retellings

Some keep the Regency drawing rooms, others land in Punjab, Washington or a zombie-ridden Hertfordshire. A few hand the story to Darcy, a servant or the sister nobody noticed.

1. 1
   Bridget Jones's Diary

   Helen Fielding's 1996 comic novel that moves Pride and Prejudice to 1990s London, with Mark Darcy as its Darcy figure.
2. 2
   Eligible

   Curtis Sittenfeld's 2016 novel that moves the Bennets to modern-day Cincinnati, with Liz as a magazine writer and Darcy as a neurosurgeon.
3. 3
   Death Comes to Pemberley

   P. D. James's 2011 murder mystery set at Pemberley six years after Elizabeth marries Darcy.
4. 4
   Longbourn

   Jo Baker's 2013 novel telling the Bennet household's story from the servants' quarters.
5. 5
   Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

   Seth Grahame-Smith's 2009 mash-up that adds a zombie plague to Jane Austen's original text.
6. 6
   Unmarriageable

   Soniah Kamal's 2019 retelling set in Pakistan, with Alys Binat in the Elizabeth role.
7. 7
   The Other Bennet Sister

   Janice Hadlow's 2020 novel following Mary, the overlooked middle Bennet sister.
8. 8
   Mr. Darcy's Diary

   Amanda Grange's retelling of the novel's events from Darcy's side, written as his diary and first published in 2005.
9. 9
   Pemberley

   Emma Tennant's 1993 sequel that follows the Darcys' married life at Pemberley.
10. 10
    Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife

    Linda Berdoll's sequel about the Darcys' marriage, first self-published as The Bar Sinister in 1999 and reissued under this title in 2004.
11. 11
    After Darcy

    Joanna Nadin's 2026 novel about the modern-day Bennet sisters after Darcy's death, told around Lydia's year of sobriety.
12. 12
    An Assembly Such as This

    Pamela Aidan's 2003 novel, the first of her Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, retelling the story from Darcy's side.
13. 13
    Pride and Premeditation

    Tirzah Price's 2021 young-adult mystery that recasts Lizzie Bennet as an aspiring lawyer investigating a murder.
14. 14
    Pride and Protest

    Nikki Payne's 2022 romance that sets the story in Washington, D.C., with activist Liza Bennett.

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