I was particularly young when I read a lot of the classics and recall having a moment of panic at one point - being 'classics' they were by their very nature limited, so what did I read when I’d exhausted them all!? Fortunately I've managed to find a lot to feed my reading appetite since, so all was well.
I’ve always loved Austen (the Claire Tomalin biography is readable, though necessarily ‘padded’, if you want to know more about her) so would find it hard to choose between the books. However, I was always rather impressed having grown up in Portsmouth, that the heroine of Mansfield Park hailed from there too… even if talk of Portsmouth society was somewhat disparaging and it was a punishment for Fanny to be sent back there (though I might have agreed with the latter at times, I’m not a fan of city living and always felt out of place). Mind you, one of the film adaptations did make it out to be a very much less than desirable place to live!
I have most of Austen’s books on audiobook and must listen to them several times each year; they are old friends that still keep me entertained while I draw even though I know them so well and have read/listened to them so many times. What a shame though that ‘The Watsons’ was never completed; it was shaping up to be another good one.