What is the best book that was written by Jane Austen?

The answer to this one will depend entirely on who you ask.

I know people who consider Emma the best, and they include some very knowledgeable on literature.

I know people who consider Sense and Sensibility the best.

I personally enjoy Pride and Prejudice most, and I know people who think it is the best. It is certainly great fun to read. I have read it at least five times.

But the one I most admire as a piece of literature is Mansfield Park. In this, it seems, no one I know agrees with me. But it also seems Jane Austen did.

I dearly love Persuasion. I am tempted to say I think it is best.

Northanger Abbey was great, but seems a little too much the work of a young author. (I am sure someone thinks it is best, but I don't know anyone who has said so.)

Hey, five out of six isn't too bad.