books you love as much as Pride and Prejudice

jane erye definately!! if you mean other period novels and if you do i think little women should be mentioned to lol
otherwise all books by melina marchetta

-Fifty years from now,don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?-

"North & South" by Elizabeth Gaskell is wonderful and I love it as much as P&P, maybe a little more.
This is a quote from Ch.XXIV a proposal scene between Margaret and Mr Thornton:

'I do not want to be relieved from any obligation,' said he,
goaded by her calm manner. Fancied, or not fancied--I question
not myself to know which--I choose to believe that I owe my very
life to you--ay--smile, and think it an exaggeration if you will.
I believe it, because it adds a value to that life to think--oh,
Miss Hale!' continued he, lowering his voice to such a tender
intensity of passion that she shivered and trembled before him,
'to think circumstance so wrought, that whenever I exult in
existence henceforward, I may say to myself, "All this gladness
in life, all honest pride in doing my work in the world, all this
keen sense of being, I owe to her!" And it doubles the gladness,
it makes the pride glow, it sharpens the sense of existence till
I hardly know if it is pain or pleasure, to think that I owe it
to one--nay, you must, you shall hear'--said he, stepping
forwards with stern determination--'to one whom I love, as I do
not believe man ever loved woman before.'

P&P isn't my favorite of JA's books. Persuasion is.

Hmmm. _Cranford_ by Elizabeth Gaskell is a possibility.

_Precious Bane_ by Mary Webb. certainly.

_Little, Big_ by John Crowley.

My current favorite books are the Twilight series written by Stephenie Meyer. It is very current, just a few years old, but a great love story!

Everything's going to change. Have a cluckity-cluck-cluck day, Hugo!

I have to say that my top Jane Austen favorites are 1. Sense and sensibility, 2. Pride and Prejudice, and 3. Persuasion! My non Jane Austen favorites are numerous, but here are just a few. I love Jane Eyre, that is probably my favorite not by Austen. Another is called Dr.Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. It in my oppinion is a romance, historical fiction, and tragedy all in one. It tells the romance of a love that can never be, this is intermingled with a chronicle of the russian revolution. It is a truly wonderful novel. Another interesting fact is that the main character a doctor who also writes poems does so because pasternak couldn't get his poetry published any other way. The poetry is gorgous. My other favorite novel is called Daniel Deronda by George Eliot.

I adore "Gone With the Wind" from Margaret Mitchell.

For some reason P&P pops up in my mind whenever I think about Scarlet. Very odd.

Along with P & P, Persuasion and Emma. (I enjoy select adaptations of these novels--both the 1980 and 1995 P & P miniseries, BTW.)

Of other 19th century novels, one I've read multiple times in multiple translations is Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, one of the most powerful novels ever written--no film adaptation has ever done it justice (and Alfred Hitchcock himself refused to film it since he felt that any film of that novel would pale by comparison).

Since my adolescence I've also loved Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (in both cases, more than the movie versions).

Finally, a more recent novel that swept me away is Sarah Smith's The Vanished Child, the first and best entry in a trilogy set in the years before World War I and concerning the long-term effects of child abuse.