Lost in Austen is a choose your adventure book in the style of Jane Austen. According to the back cover:

Your name: Elizabeth Bennet. Your mission: to marry both prudently and for love, avoiding family scandal. Equipped with only your sharp wit, natural good sense, and tolerable beauty, you must navigate your way through a variety of decisions that will determine your own romantic (and financial) fate. Ever wonder what would happen if Elizabeth accepted Mr. Darcy’s proposal the firs time around? Or ran from his arms into those of Persuasion’s Captain Wentworth? Now is your chance to find out.

Lost in Austen begins in Pride and Prejudice but your decisions along the way way will lead you into the plots of Austen’s other works, and even newly imagined territory.

At the end of each page, you must choose your path and that path will determine the outcome of the story, just like the Choose Your Own Adventure books of yore. I’m a little alarmed that someone combined these genres… but I like their moxie.

You have to keep score of points that you accrue throughout the book, including “Fortune points” and “Intelligence points.” You are also, like any good 19th century heroine, obliged to keep a list of your “Failings.” My list, I presume, would be lengthy and probably written in permanent ink.

Even though I’ve never actually read any Jane Austen (I read House of Mirth, is that close enough?) I think this sounds somewhat enjoyable. I’m started to regret that I didn’t buy it in the store. Hopefully we’ll see a whole new genre of this sort of book; I’m desperate to work my way through L. Ron Hubbard’s fictional universe.