Diana Wynne Jones has written at least 121 books. Their most popular book is Howl's Moving Castle with 814 saves with an average rating of 4.15⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Fantasy, Young Adult, and Adventure.
Adventurous, funny, and mysterious are their most common moods.
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 • 814 Readers • 448 pages • 4.1
#2 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1990 • 157 Readers • 285 pages • 3.7
#3 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
2008 • 130 Readers • 422 pages • 3.8
#1 of 6 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
1977 • 65 Readers • 246 pages • 4.3
2013 • 46 Readers • 462 pages • 4.3
#2 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1988 • 40 Readers • 319 pages • 4.3
34 Readers • 4.1
#3-4 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1982 • 31 Readers • 548 pages • 4.5
#4 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1980 • 26 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5
1996 • 23 Readers • 223 pages • 3.7
#1 of 6 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
1977 • 21 Readers • 290 pages • 4
1975 • 20 Readers • 191 pages • 4.2
1985 • 20 Readers • 393 pages • 4.6
1984 • 18 Readers • 192 pages • 4.6
2010 • 18 Readers • 448 pages • 3.5
#1 of 4 in The Dalemark Quartet
1975 • 18 Readers • 192 pages • 3.8
2010 • 18 Readers • 292 pages • 3.7
1987 • 15 Readers • 363 pages • 3.4
1993 • 15 Readers • 464 pages • 4.3
1981 • 14 Readers • 224 pages • 4.5
1975 • 13 Readers • 176 pages • 3.8
#0.5 of 9 in Temeraire
2009 • 12 Readers • 433 pages • 4.3
1981 • 12 Readers • 222 pages • 3.6
#4 of 4 in The Dalemark Quartet
1993 • 10 Readers • 480 pages • 3.6
#2.5 of 9 in Temeraire
2001 • 10 Readers • 499 pages
9 Readers • 3.6
2012 • 9 Readers • 115 pages • 3.4
9 Readers • 3
2014 • 9 Readers • 356 pages • 3.3
2003 • 7 Readers • 422 pages
2002 • 7 Readers • 590 pages • 3.1
3 Safe-Keepers
2005 • 6 Readers • 530 pages • 3
2007 • 6 Readers • 181 pages • 3.8
5 Readers • 4.3
2012 • 5 Readers • 320 pages • 3.7
#5-6 of 6 in Chrestomanci
2006 • 4 Readers • 675 pages
1973 • 4 Readers • 201 pages • 3
1974 • 4 Readers • 234 pages • 3.5
1992 • 4 Readers • 380 pages • 3.5
4 Readers • 4.5
4 Readers • 3
1999 • 3 Readers • 165 pages • 3
1993 • 3 Readers • 224 pages • 3
2019 • 3 Readers • 228 pages
2014 • 3 Readers • 928 pages • 5
1989 • 3 Readers • 96 pages • 3
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 3 Readers • 318 pages • 4.3
1991 • 3 Readers • 274 pages • 3
1995 • 2 Readers • 303 pages • 3.5
#1-2 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1988 • 2 Readers • 598 pages
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 2 Readers • 230 pages • 3.5
6 Chrestomanci
2000 • 2 Readers • 176 pages
6 Chrestomanci
2000 • 2 Readers • 168 pages • 4
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 2 Readers • 323 pages • 5
1989 • 2 Readers • 4
1996 • 2 Readers • 3
2 Readers • 2
#2 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1990 • 2 Readers • 202 pages • 3
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 2 Readers • 245 pages • 3
1973 • 2 Readers • 172 pages • 3
#6 of 6 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
2005 • 1 Reader • 283 pages • 4
1 Reader • 3
#0.6 - A Wild and a Wicked Youth of 3 in The World of Riverside
2010 • 1 Reader • 528 pages
1 Reader
1 Reader
1 Reader
1 Reader
1 Reader
#0.5 - Vici of 9 in Temeraire
2009 • 1 Reader
#4 of 6 in Chrestomanci (Publication Order)
1988 • 1 Reader • 255 pages • 4
1 Reader
2018 • 1 Reader • 480 pages
2003 • 1 Reader • 349 pages
#5-6 of 5 in Chrestomanci (Recommended Reading Order)
2006 • 1 Reader • 685 pages
#2 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1990 • 1 Reader • 296 pages • 2
#1 of 3 in Howl's Moving Castle
1986 • 1 Reader • 344 pages • 5
2002 • 1 Reader
1980 • 1 Reader • 79 pages
#1-2 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1988 • 1 Reader • 608 pages
2011 • 1 Reader • 3
#4 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1980 • 1 Reader • 264 pages
#2 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1988 • 1 Reader • 326 pages • 5
#1 of 6 in Chrestomanci
1977 • 1 Reader • 256 pages • 5
1992 • 1 Reader • 32 pages • 2
1 Reader • 4
2012 • 1 Reader • 400 pages