Jane Austen/ Jane Eyre type romantic novels?

As far as Jane Eyre goes, have you read Charlotte Bronte's other books? If not, I'd recommend you read them: Villette, Shirley and The Professor.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is considered a classic. It is even darker than Jane Eyre, but quite good.

Anne Bronte, the youngest and lesser known Bronte sister, wrote two very good books: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I would recommend you read these as well.

I would also recommend some of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels like Mary Barton, North and South, Wives and Daughters and others. She was a contemporary of the Bronte sisters and was known to them. In fact, she wrote the biography of Charlotte Bronte after her death at Charlotte's father's request.

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray was an excellent story and would fall somewhere in between Charlotte Bronte's and Jane Austen's styles.

I would echo Georgette Heyer. She was a more modern writer, but her Regency novels (she wrote books in various eras and even some mysteries) are excellent. I would recommend The Nonesuch, The Corinthian and Regency Buck as a start.

Fanny Burney is another author whose novels I would recommend. She wrote a bit before Jane Austen and her books, though not as good, have some of the flavor of Jane Austen's. You may enjoy Camilla, Cecilia and Evelina (these are the ones I've read of her books).

Maria Edgeworth, a contemporary of Jane Austen's, is another author whose books I would recommend. You may enjoy Castle Rackrent, The Absentee, Leonora and others.

One of Jane Austen's favorites was Samuel Richardson. He was a bit before Jane Austen's time, but apparently she read and reread his Sir Charles Grandison. He also wrote Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded and Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (this one was a bit much for me, but I may attempt it again).

They are not truly like either author, but you may enjoy The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Blue Castle or A Tangled Web by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Washington Square by Henry James, The House of Mirth or The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, He Knew He Was Right or The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, Our Mutual Friend or Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (and others) by Thomas Hardy. You may also enjoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. They are all excellent.

I hope this helps.

Jane Austen Type Books

I love Persuasion, my second favorite of Austen's books after Pride and Prejudice, so I would definitely go with that one. It is an excellent story of love lost and eventually, after many trials, regained. I was never really able to get into Jane Eyre though, but certainly both are worth a read.

A few of my favorites, mostly classic, some modern:

The Return of the Native

Far From the Madding Crowd

Wuthering Heights

Middlemarch

The Age of Innocence

Rebecca (du Maurier)

Possession (A.S. Byatt)

The Forsyte Saga

Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)

The Phantom of the Opera

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Ivanhoe

North and South

I would suggest to you to read the books written by Thomas Hardy and Bronte sisters.

Far from the Madding Crowd is one of the best by Thomas Hardy.

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There have been some great suggestions here. I can't recommend Wuthering Heights enough, though. It's really the final book of the "essential classic romance trilogy."

I'm reading Daniel Deronda at the moment by George Eliot. It along that same period of time. I'm not minding it. Try Gone with the Wind and Little Women. I really liked them as romance novels.

I think you also have to read Wuthering Heights. Its not funny but its just one of those books you have to read.

Look for an author called Georgette Heyer. Very like Austen but a little lighter and easier to read. http://www.georgette-heyer.com/general.html

Try some of theseChildren/Young Adult

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Whistling for the Elephants by Sandi Toksvic

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

All the Harry Potter books

Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

The Railway Children - E Nesbit

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carol

Treasure Island and Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Dating Hamlet by Lisa Fielder

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Maximum Ride by James Herbert

Adult

Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album

The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

The Other Bolyen Girl by Philippa Gregory.......and her other books

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Song of the Sound by Adam Armstrong

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle and his others

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad, Rosie, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Pillars of the Earth and the sequel World Without End by Ken Follett

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, Alexander McCall Smith, Terry Pratchett, James Herbert

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm – George Orwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon starts with Cross Stitch

Read "Rebecca" by Daphne DeMournier

It is one of my favorites and I love Austen!