Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones has written at least 84 books. Their most popular book is Howl's Moving Castle with 1473 saves with an average rating of 4.17⭐.
Author Bio
A British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
[Comment from Kelly Link on The Guardian][1]:
> I can't pick just one book by Diana Wynne Jones. She wrote so many books, all of them essential, and funny, and weird, and true. She mixed up fantasy and science fiction and the domestic so that unhappy families and awkward adolescents got smooshed up, quite believably, with mythological figures, extraterrestrial powers, and all other sorts of dangerous beasties. I was already a science-fiction reader before I found [Dogsbody][2]. But I might have outgrown science fiction quickly, moved on to books about horses and girls and high schools, if it weren't for books such as Dogsbody and [The Homeward Bounders][3] and [Archer's Goon][4], and if it weren't for characters such as Kathleen, who rescues a puppy and falls in love with a star, and Jamie, who spies on a dangerous game that They are playing, and Howard, with his two very complicated families.
> Wynne Jones's books are often literally about other worlds, but her characters belong very firmly to this one. They are eccentric, flamboyant, pragmatic, lonely, sometimes selfish, often stubborn, always recognisable. How they navigate the territory that they find themselves in is, I suppose, a kind of metaphor for the process of growing up. But I'm grown up now, and have a child of my own, and I rely on her books, her pinprick insights into familial relationships, her astonishing way of seeing the worlds.
[1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice
[2]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL60144W/Dogsbody
[3]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL60134W/The_Homeward_Bounders
[4]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL60137W/Archer%27s_Goon
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 1,473 Readers • 448 pages • 4.2
#2 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1990 • 274 Readers • 285 pages • 3.6
#3 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
2008 • 219 Readers • 422 pages • 3.8
#2 of 7 in Chrestomanci
1988 • 77 Readers • 326 pages • 4.2
#1 of 7 in Chrestomanci
1977 • 63 Readers • 612 pages • 4.4
1996 • 44 Readers • 223 pages • 3.5
1985 • 42 Readers • 393 pages • 4.1
1975 • 42 Readers • 274 pages • 4.3
36 Readers • 3.7
35 Readers • 3.6
2009 • 33 Readers • 292 pages • 3.5
1984 • 29 Readers • 192 pages • 4.5
1993 • 26 Readers • 464 pages • 3.9
1987 • 24 Readers • 363 pages • 3.5
1981 • 21 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3
1975 • 20 Readers • 176 pages • 3.8
2011 • 19 Readers • 140 pages • 3.5
#4 of 3 in The Dalemark Quartet
1993 • 18 Readers • 480 pages • 4
1981 • 18 Readers • 222 pages • 3.4
1976 • 16 Readers • 340 pages • 4.2
Planned book #0.5 of 14 in Temeraire
16 Readers • 3.6
#2.5 of 11 in Temeraire
2001 • 16 Readers • 499 pages • 5
2014 • 14 Readers • 356 pages • 3.7
2012 • 13 Readers • 2.9
13 Readers • 3
1992 • 13 Readers • 380 pages • 3.6
2007 • 12 Readers • 181 pages • 3.3
2003 • 11 Readers • 422 pages • 3.5
1974 • 10 Readers • 234 pages • 3.8
#5 of 7 in Chrestomanci
2006 • 8 Readers • 695 pages • 4
7 Readers • 4
2019 • 7 Readers • 228 pages • 5
2 Singing the Dogstar Blues
2005 • 6 Readers • 530 pages • 3
1993 • 4 Readers • 224 pages • 3
1973 • 4 Readers • 201 pages • 3
1989 • 4 Readers • 112 pages • 3
2014 • 4 Readers • 928 pages • 5
1991 • 3 Readers • 274 pages • 3
2012 • 3 Readers • 400 pages
1999 • 3 Readers • 165 pages • 3
2012 • 2 Readers • 224 pages
1973 • 2 Readers • 172 pages • 3
6 Red Hot Reads
1994 • 2 Readers • 280 pages • 2
1995 • 2 Readers • 303 pages • 3.5
1989 • 2 Readers • 4
1996 • 2 Readers • 3
1 Reader
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 1 Reader • 320 pages
#5 of 5 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
2000 • 1 Reader • 126 pages • 4
1986 • 1 Reader • 180 pages • 3
1989 • 1 Reader • 182 pages • 4
#3 of 4 in Chrestomanci (Recommended Reading Order)
1982 • 1 Reader • 564 pages • 4
1992 • 1 Reader • 32 pages • 2
#1 of 5 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
1977 • 1 Reader • 240 pages • 5
1978 • 1 Reader • 58 pages • 4
1999 • 1 Reader • 3
#2 of 5 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
1980 • 1 Reader • 222 pages • 4
#3 of 5 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
1982 • 1 Reader • 222 pages • 4
1970 • 1 Reader • 256 pages
1980 • 1 Reader • 79 pages
#2 of 3 in The Dalemark Quartet
1993 • 1 Reader • 788 pages
#1 of 3 in The Dalemark Quartet
1977 • 1 Reader • 564 pages
1984 • 1 Reader • 96 pages • 2
1989 • 1 Reader • 223 pages • 3
2015 • 1 Reader
2013 • 1 Reader • 158 pages
1984 • 1 Reader • 192 pages • 3
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 1 Reader • 336 pages
1989 • 262 pages
2002 • 392 pages
2014 • 688 pages