Diana Wynne Jones

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  • Bibliography:
    58 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1973
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Chronicles of Chrestomanci

1 - Charmed Life (Jan-1977)
2 - The Lives of Christopher Chant (1988)
3 - Witch Week (1982)
4 - The Magicians of Caprona (Apr-1980)
5 - Conrad's Fate (Apr-2005)
6 - The Pinhoe Egg (Oct-2006)
7 - Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci (Feb-2003)

The Dalemark Quartet

1 - Cart and Cwidder (May-1975)
2 - Drowned Ammet (1977)
3 - The Spellcoats (Jan-1979)
4 - The Crown of Dalemark (Oct-1995)

Derkholm

1 - Dark Lord of Derkholm (Nov-1998)
2 - Year of the Griffin (Aug-2001)

Howl's Moving Castle

1 - Howl's Moving Castle (Apr-1986)
2 - Castle in the Air (1990)
3 - House of Many Ways (Jun-2008)

The Magids

1 - Deep Secret (Jan-1999)
2 - The Merlin Conspiracy (Apr-2003)

Multi-Author Series List

Magicquest

9 - The Power of Three (Mar-1976)
12 - The Magicians of Caprona (Apr-1980)

Book List in Order: 58 titles

  • Wilkins' Tooth

    OWN BACK LIMITEDREVENGE ARRANGED, PRICE ACCORDING TO TASK, ALL DIFFICULT TASKS UNDERTAKEN, TREASURE HUNTED, ETC. It seemed like a marvellous scheme at the time! Frank and Jess had set up the business because they needed money - their pocket-money had...

  • Witch's Business

    They're in the revenge business!Jess and Frank's father has stopped their allowances for four whole months! That means that Jess can't go anywhere or do anything with her friends. Worse yet, Frank owes money to Buster Knell, the bully. How can Jess a...

  • The Ogre Downstairs

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  • Cart and Cwidder

    The Dalemark Quartet - 1

    Cart and Cwidder is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who are travelling musicians journeying through Dalemark, until one day they pick up a mysterious passenger. Somehow M...

  • The Power of Three

    Magicquest - 9

    Ayna could predict the future.Cari could find what was lost.Gair thought he was ordinary.The three children of Gest, the chief of Garholt, know the perils of the Moor on which they live. The Dorig, their people's enemies, are cold-blooded, fierce und...

  • Charmed Life

    Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 1

    SURELY GWENDOLYN CHANT WAS DESTINED FOR GREAT THINGS. Her magic was strong. Strong enough to gain the respect of all the witches and warlocks on Coven Street. Strong enough to draw the attention of the awesome Chrestomanci. Strong enough to get Gwen...

  • Drowned Ammet

    The Dalemark Quartet - 2

    For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people--from the past, present, and future--must join forces ...

  • Eight Days of Luke

    "Just kindle a flame and I'll be with you."It's summer vacation, but David's miserably stuck with his unpleasant relatives. Then a strange boy named Luke turns up, charming and fun, joking that David has released him from a prison. Or is he joking? H...

  • The Spellcoats

    The Dalemark Quartet - 3

    Tanqui discovers she has the only means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.Tanaqui discovers she has the means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people a...



  • The Magicians of Caprona

    Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 4
    Magicquest - 12

    An enchanting fantasy by a master of the supernatural Tonino is the only person in the famous Montana household who wasn't born with an instinct for creating spells, but he has other gifts. His ability to communicate with cats just might help defend...

  • The Time of the Ghost

    There's been an accident! Something's wrong! She doesn't know who she is, and doesn't know why she's invisibly floating through the buildings and grounds of a half-remembered boarding school. Then, to her horror, she encounters the ancient evil that...

  • Witch Week

    Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 3

    A wild comic fantasy from a master of the supernatural There are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, "Someone in this class is a witch," the students in 6B are...

  • Archer's Goon

    The trouble started when Howard Sykes came home from school and found the "goon" sitting in the kitchen. He said he'd been sent by Archer. But who was Archer? It had to do with the 2,000 words that Howard's author father had failed to deliver.It soon...

  • Fire and Hemlock

    Polly has two sets of memories... One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall...

  • Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories

  • The Homeward Bounders

    If he finds the right world, Jamie can get Home again.When Jamie stumbled upon the powerful Them playing Their mysterious games, They threw him out to the Boundaries of the worlds. Since then, he's been yanked from world to world, doomed to wonder in...

  • Howl's Moving Castle

    Howl's Moving Castle - 1

    IN WHICH A WITCH BEWITCHED THE HATTER'S DAUGHTER ... AND THEN SOME. Sophie lived in the town of Market Chipping, which was in Ingary, which was a land where invisible cloaks and seven-league boots really did exist. Which meant that nothing was qui...

  • A Tale of Time City

    A  thrilling story by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones -- with an introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.London, 1939. Vivian Smith thinks she is being evacuated to the countryside, because of the war. But she is being kidnapped - out of her own ...

  • The Lives of Christopher Chant

    Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 2

    His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost...



  • The Four Grannies

  • Chair Person

  • Dogsbody

    A funny, heartbreaking, stunning book by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones -- with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.The Dog Star, Sirius, is tried - and found guilty - by his heavenly peers for a murder he did not commit. His sentence: to live on th...

  • Castle in the Air

    Howl's Moving Castle - 2

    In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdul...

  • Hidden Turnings

  • Wild Robert

  • A Sudden Wild Magic

    When the mages of the neighboring universe create environmental catastrophes on Earth, only "The Ring," a secret society of powerful occultists dedicated to the well-being of humankind, can halt their meddling. Reprint....

  • Stopping for a Spell

    In three wild and wacky tales, find out what can happen when......An old armchair that you've finally decided to get rid of comes to life -- and has a definite attitude. It thinks it can rule the entire household!...Not one, but four grannies come to...

  • Hexwood

    Strange things happen at Hexwood farm. From her window, Ann Stavely watches person after person disappear through the farm's gate--and never come out again. Later, in the woods nearby. she meets a tormented sorcerer, who seems to have arisen f...

  • Yes Dear

    Kay catches a magic golden leaf and enters a world where wishes comes true, but when she tells each member of the family, they are too busy to listen and understand. But finally Kay tells Granny who does listen and understand because she can remember...



  • Fantasy Stories

    A collection of eighteen imaginative stories includes the writings of such authors as C. S. Lewis, L. Frank Baum, Joan Aiken, Isaac Asimov, and Rudyard Kipling, and features black-and-white line drawings. Original....

  • The Crown of Dalemark

    The Dalemark Quartet - 4

    When this final book of Diana Wynne Jones's quartet of novels about the mythical kingdom of Dalemark was published in 1995, it earned the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature.The Crown of Dalemark continues the adventures of Mitt after ...

  • Dark Lord of Derkholm

    Derkholm - 1

    FOR FORTY YEARS, Wizard Derk's world has been devastated by Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties -- packaged excursions for tourists from the next universe in search of adventure. When mild-mannered Derk is chosen to play the role of this year's Dark Lord, ...

  • The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

    HAVE YOU EVER: Lost your companion in a bog? Had trouble identifying a member of the Assassins Guild? Been unable to communicate with the local dragon? Had a hard time figuring out the difference between Dwarfs, Ores, Gnomes, and Trolls? Fea...

  • Deep Secret

    The Magids - 1

    The renowned fantasy author’s multiverse adventure “combines strong writing, high fantasy heroics and delightfully dark humor to sparkling effect” (Publishers Weekly).Rupert Venables is a Magid. It’s a Magid’s job to oversee what goes on in...

  • Stealer of Souls

  • The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume I

    In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic--and to hold the title Chrestomanci...

    The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neit...

  • Year of the Griffin

    Derkholm - 2

    It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his ...

  • Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci

    Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 7

    Dapper, debonair, and wise, the great enchanter Chrestomanci has nine lives and a strong personality as well as strong magic. That personality reverberates in each of these four dazzling stories.A warlock tries to escape Chrestomanci's justice by fle...

  • The Merlin Conspiracy

    The Magids - 2

    When the Merlin of Blest dies, everyone thinks it's a natural death. But Roddy and Grundo, two children traveling with the Royal Court, soon discover the truth. The Merlin's replacement and other courtiers are scheming to steal the magic of Blest for...



  • Aunt Maria

    In Cranbury-on-Sea Aunt Maria rules with a rod of sweetness far tougher than iron and deadlier than poison. Strange and awful things keep happening in Cranbury. Why are all the men apparently gray-suited zombies? Why do all the children -- if you eve...

  • Conrad's Fate

    Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 5

    Someone at Stallery Mansion is changing the world. At first, only small details, but the changes get bigger and bigger. It's up to Conrad, a twelve-year-old with terrible karma who's just joined the mansion's staff, to find out who is behind it.But h...

  • The Skiver's Guide

    Skiving is getting out of things you do not want to do. It is shirking work and avoiding all boring things. It is a skill no one should be without! It is also an art, which can be carried to a high pitch of perfection. This book is designed to help b...

  • Unexpected Magic

    Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones presents ariveting collection of unpredictable tales, including: A cat tells how the kindhearted wizard she owns is suddenly called upon to defeat a horrific Beast. When Anne has mumps, her drawings come to l...

  • The Pinhoe Egg

    Chronicles of Chrestomanci - 6

    Cat Chant and Marianne Pinhoe have discovered something exciting -- something truly precious, very strange, and valuable. An egg. An egg that has been hidden away in an attic for who-knows-how-many years. An egg protected by some strong “Don't Noti...

  • The Game

    Hayley's parents disappeared when she was a baby. Since then, she has been raised and homeschooled by her grandparents. Grandad is overworked and travels a lot; Grandma is much too strict and never lets her meet any children her own age. When Hayley ...

  • Spellbound

    This collection of eighteen stories introduces young readers to the best in both classic and contemporary fantasy. Featuring extracts from enduring classics such as "Puck of Pook's Hill" by Rudyard Kipling, C.S.Lewis's "The Silver Chair", and "Five C...

  • House of Many Ways

    Howl's Moving Castle - 3

    In this sequel to the international bestseller Howl’s Moving Castle, bookish Charmain finds herself smack in the middle of magical court intrigues . . . and dealing with the dashing Wizard Howl.When Charmain Baker agreed to look after her great-unc...

  • Eclipse 2

    To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true… In th...

  • Enchanted Glass

    Aidan Cain has had the worst week of his life. His gran died, he was sent to a foster home, and now malicious beings are stalking him. There is one person Gran told Aidan to go to if he ever got into trouble -- a powerful sorcerer who lives at Melsto...



  • Earwig and the Witch

    Got the other twelve witches all chasing me. I'll be back for her when I've shook them off. It may take years. Her name is Earwig. Earwig has been at the orphanage ever since she was a baby. That's just how she likes it. She has her best friend, C...

  • Believing Is Seeing: Seven Stories

    Believing is seeing, as the title of this outstanding collection of fantasies proclaims. And "reading is seeing more than you've ever imagined when in the masterful hands of acclaimed author Diana Wynne Jones. Here are seven tales--seven doorways to ...

  • Reflections

    This collection of more than twenty-five critical essays, speeches, and biographical pieces chosen by Diana Wynne Jones before her death in 2011 is essential reading for the author's many fans and for students and teachers of the fantasy genre and cr...

  • Black Maria

  • Mixed Magics

    Dapper, debonair, and wise, the great enchanter Chrestomanci has nine lives and a strong personality as well as strong magic. That personality reverberates in each of these four dazzling stories. A warlock tries to escape Chrestomanci's justice by...

  • The Islands of Chaldea

  • Freaky Families

  • Vile Visitors

  • Changeover

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Diana Wynne Jones has published 58 books.

Diana Wynne Jones does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Vile Visitors, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Diana Wynne Jones, Wilkins' Tooth, was published in March 1973.

Yes. Diana Wynne Jones has 5 series.
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