We tend to think of Jane Austen as the first great female novelist, whose originality paved the way for creative descendants ...

Percival Everett, Doubleday, $28 2. Three Days in June: Anne Tyler, Knopf, $27 3. The God of the Woods: Liz Moore, Riverhead Books, $30 4. Iron Flame: Rebecca Yarros, Entangled: Red Tower Books, ...

"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.

Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen.