Pride & Prejudice remakes to date: this 55-minute adaptation from the 1938 and a longer one from two years later. Also, this mini-series. But that's not to be confused with another mini-series. Or yet another. Or another. There's also of course, the BBC adaptation starring Colin Firth and his intrepid mutton chops, an overlooked modern-day adaptation of the fable, the terrible Bollywood redo (with the guy from Lost and the lady from Rome), and finally, the one where Keira Knightley got nominated for an Oscar for talking in a British accent and pouting a lot. And most recently, one with zombies!

In the UK, who we can thank for about 95% of those unnecessary adaptations, Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (subtitled "The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!") has apparently rocketed to the top of the Amazon Movers & Shakers list. But as Americans, we're just as culpable -- the retelling sits pretty inside our own Top 20 Bestsellers. And although the book itself has yet to be released in the UK, it's apparently gone into a second printing. Looking at an update of one of the prototypical chick lit's classic maxims makes it clear that this undead spin may resonate with a generation of suitors and coy maidens raised on Craigslisty dating etiquette: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." And what fitter way is there to describe the overeducated, underemployed, and undersexed masses being let loose upon the world yearly? And yes, there's also a film adaptation in the works, for which Keira Knightley would, in fact, be perfect. So buy a copy for the die-hard Austenite in your family today! Nothing howls, "Happy Easter," like Jane Austen ballroom-dancing with the undead.