I don’t remember exactly which was my first Diana Wynne Jones book. It was either Dogsbody or Eight Days of Luke. I loved both of them. I’ve borrowed, picked up and read her books on and off ever since, although there were some I never made it to.
When she died on 26th March, 2011 it was blow to many in the book community, including myself. (It was ever so much more of a blow to her family and loved ones I’m sure, and I don’t meant to make light of that.) I decided I wanted to read through her books as I kind of memorial, getting the chance to reread those I had read before and discover the ones I missed. I started with Wilkins’ Tooth at the end of March, but I haven’t gotten any further than that yet.
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Marcus and I finished reading Eva Ibbotson’s The Great Ghost Rescue today so I’m hoping I might get him to read both more Ibbotson and some of Wynne Jones’ appropriate titles with me. We’ll see if that happens.
It is impossible to get a matching set of Wynne Jones books as they’ve been published over a lot of time and under a number of different publishers and imprints. I’ve done my best to match things as works best for me, but this isn’t a coherent enough collection to go into the dream library.
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| 1973 READ No ebook available |
1974 READ No ebook available |
1975 READ Own in paper No ebook available |
1975 READ Dalemark Quartet 01 Own in ebook |
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| 1975 READ Own in paper |
1976 Read Previously Own in paper, ebook |
1977 Unread Dalemark Quartet 02 Own in paper, ebook |
1977 Unread Chrestomanci 01 Own in paper |
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| 1979 Unread Dalemark Quartet 03 |
1980 Unread Chrestomanci 02 |
1981 Read Previously Own in paper |
1981 Unread Own in paper |
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| 1982 Read Previously Chrestomanci 03 Own in paper |
1984 Read Previously Own in paper No ebook available |
1984 READ Own in paper, ebook |
1984 Unread No ebook available |
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| 1982 Read Previously Howl 01 |
1987 Read Previously Own in paper |
1988 Unread Chrestomanci 04 |
1982 Read Previously Howl 02 No ebook available |
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| 1991 Read Previously |
1992 Read Previously No ebook available |
1993 Unread Dalemark Quartet 04 |
1993 Unread No ebook available |
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| 1996 Partially Read Own in paper No ebook available |
1997 Read Previously Magids 01 Own in paper No ebook available |
1998 Unread Derkholm 01 No ebook available |
2000 Unread Own in paper |
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| 2000 Unread Derkholm 02 No ebook available |
2003 Unread Magids 02 Own in paper No ebook available |
2005 Unread Chrestomanci 05 |
2006 Unread Chrestomanci 06 |
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| 2007 Unread |
2008 Unread Howl 03 Own in ebook |
2010 Read previously Own in paper |
2011 Unread |
Posted by orannia on 16th July, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Fantastic author – so many books I would love to read (for the first time) or re-read!
Posted by rocalisa on 17th July, 2011 at 8:48 am
Exactly! That’s the whole reason why I’ve started this crazy project. So many books I’d love to reread or read for the first time. Adding reading to Marcus for the kids’ books looks like it was a good move too. We’re on our second Eva Ibbotson right now and he was interested in The Ogre Downstairs too.
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