Which ones have you tried? If you want to have something to talk about when people are talking about female authors and Austen inevitably comes up, I'd recomme

Which ones have you tried? If you want to have something to talk about when people are talking about female authors and Austen inevitably comes up, I'd recommend Persuasion, and maybe Emma provided you are OK with imagining your own ending to make it the slow-motion soul-crushing tragedy it so clearly wanted to be. Persuasion wasn't given her final punch-up editing pass before she died, and so it lacks much of the "gosh I, the author, am so clever and my remarks so cutting!" tone that I've been unable to get past in her other books (save Emma) while still actually being reasonably clever. It's also quite short. Emma is kind of a take-down of that exact tendency in Austen herself, so it worked OK for me. Mind: if you're not OK with the prose, tone, and topics of 19th century English literature in general, you'll hate any of it regardless. Anyway, it can be a good thing to get a taste of the "foreign" in reading.