Question by Evil Tuffy: Can anyone recommend some novels that have a equivalent style or story line as Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”?
I like books that exhibits realism, genuine insight of the human character, romance (but not sexually explicit), and it has a satisfying ending. Please and thank you 
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Answer by laheira2
In romance, novels written in that style are known as Regency. A private favorite of mine is Barbara Metzger. She has a rather large booklist. You may also want to examine Jo Beverley. I not long ago study “Deidre and Don Juan” by Beverley and it was very good. Regency romance is typically on the “sweet” (sex behind closed doors) side of the scale.
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The best book I can recommend you is Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers. It’s one of my favorites. Obstensibly, it’s a mystery novel, but the focus is NOT on the mystery in the least – in fact, I can hardly remember what the mystery is. It’s one of her Lord Peter novels, but the main character is Harriet Vane, the woman whom he has loved unrequitedly for the past ten years or so. It’s extremely psychologically based -you really get inside her characters heads, and it’s the most realistic romance I’ve ever read. It has some very romantic scenes, but it’s not sexually explicit at all. In one of her most romantic scenes, the two main characters don’t even touch. The tone is a lot like Persuasion too. And the ending is definitely satisfying. An all around wonderful book.
Jane Austin:
Mansfield Park
Sense and Sensibility
Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
None But You by Susan Kaye
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
I used to love the Georgette Heyer historical romances. Not sure if they’re in print, or if they can only be found in a second hand bookstore, but they’re perfect if you like Austen. They’re better then Austin, in some ways – e.g. don’t get bogged down in a lot of unnecessary description.
Anything else by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Pride & Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Lady Susan
Love and Friendship
I’ve recently been reading books by R.T. Stevens (Robert Tyler Stevens). His books are Historical Fiction. They are amazing!!!
Flight from Bucharest
The Summer Day is Done
The Professional Gentleman
My Enemy, My Love
Try some of these, you won’t regret it.