Curtis Sittenfeld is a master of creating sharp-witted female protagonists in stories that reflect a Jane Austen-like cunning in using sly comedy as a vehicle for social observation. The author of seven novels, including her bestselling debut, Prep, as well as her Laura Bush-inspired American Wife, a contemporary Pride and Prejudice update, Eligible, and her Hillary Clinton-meets-Sliding Doors “what if” novel, Rodham. Of her latest novel, Romantic Comedy, she says, “People say, ‘Write the book you want to read’, but I think I was actually writing the world I wanted to exist in.” 

Below are Curtis Sittenfeld’s favorite books, available to purchase individually or as a set.