Recommendations for 15 year old girl who has enjoyed Jane Austen and Jane Eyre

Lady Audley’s Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Brandon. It’s available in Spanish.

Oh gosh, yes! All the PG Wodehouse novels, particularly the Jeeves and Wooster ones - so funny and very well-written.

PH Wodehouse's short stories are very accessible and humorous - 'Carry on, Jeeves' and 'The Inimitable Jeeves'
As she enjoys Jane Austen, Barbara Pym would be worth a look - 'Excellent Women', 'Quartet in Autumn' and 'The Sweet Dove Died' - a very English sensibility and finely observed unassuming lives
At 15, I fully embraced D H Lawrence, having bought three volume of his short stories in a jumble sale. I quickly moved on to 'Sons and Lovers', 'The Rainbow', Women in Love' and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. Lawrence has fallen out of fashion but has a lot to offer, in my view - the relationship between men and women and gender roles, the tension between the natural world and industrialisation, the impact of social class, the increasing independence of women
Katherine Mansfield's short stories are distinctive if she enjoys short stories
Nancy Mitford's 'Love in a Cold Climate' and 'The Pursuit of Love' offer diversion of an eccentric kind
Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone With The Wind' - very long but straightforward narration which is accessible for a 15-year old
Muriel Spark 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie', 'Girls of Slender Means', 'Girls in their Married Bliss' - short and mostly cheerful
Penelope Fitzgerald - 'The Bookshop' and 'Offshore' would be a good way in, both short and depicting two quite distinctive worlds
She might enjoy Bernadine Everisto's 'Girl, Woman, Other' - crammed with intriguing characters and offering snapshots of the different lives women were able to live from the 1980s onwards

I enjoyed John Steinbeck - has she read 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

For Whom The Bell Tolls is by Hemingway, not Steinbeck.

There’s already lots of good suggestions on this thread - I’m not a big fan of Jane Austen myself, but I would definitely suggest Northanger Abbey, particularly if she’s also reading some more gothic classics like Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Woman in White etc because Northanger Abbey has lots of amusing references in it to that kind of fiction.

In addition to all the good suggestions of the other Brontes, Dickens, Mrs Gaskell etc, I would add Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. It gets overlooked a bit these days in favour or Rebecca (and Rebecca is indeed brilliant) but Jamaica Inn is really good and has a young female protagonist living in the isolated Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor with her shady aunt and uncle, realising that some highly illegal things are going on and getting mixed up in murder, smuggling and all sorts. Also it has a very attractive, roguish love interest.

Anthony Trollope (Barchester Towers etc) and EM Forster (A Room With A View, Howards End etc) for sure! But also, if she has enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, has she seen the new BBC series - The Other Bennett Sister? It's GREAT - focuses on Mary Bennett, the "bookish" one. I wasn't expecting to like it so much! Available on bbc iplayer.

Lorna Doone
Tess of the D’urbevilles

Forever Amber is a good shout by a pp. Also The Three Muskateers and Frankenstein. Yy To Kill A Mockingbird!

Aw she sounds like me at that age! She’s going to love Jane Eyre, I bet! Hard to beat that one but I think she would also like the Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë. Definitely Austen’s Sense and sensibility and Emma. She would probably love To Kill a Mockingbird, too. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy? Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is short and easy to read with a powerful message. Don’t scare her off with too much Dickens, they’re a hard read.

Yep! Dickens was my next stop post Austen and Brontes as a teen 😅

Has anyone suggested
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot? And also Silas Marner by her.

The Woman in White isn’t a ghost story!

There are many books in the Anne of Green gables collection , all the way up to Anne having children of her own . I’m sure she’d love them !

The Moonstone and the woman in white are great.

I also really loved North and South and wish I had read it sooner

How about slightly more modern classics too ? Brighton Rock, 1984, Brideshead Revisited

I think everyone should read 1984 and also Fahrenheit 451

Anne of Green Gables is a fantastic book for all ages, definitely recommend. It's funny too, often in a wry observational sort of way like Austen. The later books in the series maintain the standard, and are beautifully human.

I agree Rebecca could be a great next one, particularly if she likes the period setting more than the romance angle. Also second the suggestion for Lorna Doone, that is fantastic.

To continue the sci-fi suggestions, as well as HG Wells, how about John Wyndham? The Day of the Triffids is brilliant.

At that sort of age I was reading Brighton Rock, A Clockwork Orange, Animal Farm, 1984, and Lord of the Flies, as well as most of the novels by all three Brontë sisters, and Jane Austen. And Jack London! The Call of the Wild has the most gorgeous use of language, as does the Sea Wolf. Highly recommend them all!

But she's only read two Jane Austen novels; why are you even considering other authors?! She just needs to read everything else by Jane Austen. And then re-read them all

Would it be easier going for her to listen to audiobooks in English (as opposed to reading in English)? It must get somewhat lost in translation. Although better to read in Spanish than not at all.

It's very different from Austen, of course, but I enjoyed John Steinbeck - has she read 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

I don't think anyone has suggested E M Forster ....
A Room with a View
A Passage to India
Howards End
Where Angels Fear to Tread

All good stories

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

The Chrysallids by John Wyndham.

I remember reading Testament of Youth at that age and finding it very moving. Not fiction though obviously.

Good post from @WeAreNumpties agree with all that. With Hardy, check publication date as he and his books got more and more morose – anything including (IMHO) and after The Mayor of Casterbridge is very doomy.

I also wondered about The Picture of Dorian Gray but be aware it's quite savage and sexy. Edith Wharton is another good shout tho – The Hous eof Mirth is also brilliant.

Oh yes I too loved Wives and Daughters, and North and South.

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

The Ladies Paradise and Nana - both Emile Zola

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

I would get her to start with The Pickwick Papers for Dickens, it is easily his most accessible and funniest novel - and I love many of them. The Victorians constantly wanted Dickens to write more stories like The Pickwick Papers and it really irritated him as he wanted write more stories with social commentary that weren't all about the laughs.

I enjoyed reading Villette after reading Jane Eyre.

Far from the Madding Crowd is fantastic and not as heart-breaking as Hardy's other novels. His others might be better read when she's a bit older.

Personally, I adored Persuasion and I read it when I was quite young, so it depends on the person doing the reading whether that one is saved to a later date.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Woman in White and The Moonstone are all great. The Moonstone is considered to be the first English detective novel in so worth reading for that alone. Any of the Sherlock Holmes books of course.

I loved a lot of the 18th Century novels at her age and would recommend Fielding's Tom Jones. I also loved Moll Flanders but my parents were quite liberal about what I read.

Wives and Daughters was one of my favourite Elizabeth Gaskell books.

I'm envious that she will be reading all these lovely books for the first time.

Vilette
The Professor
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Restoration

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope?

I love Georgette Heyer. Funny writer, and she was highly recommended by Stephen Fry when he was still active on Twitter. Brilliant.