Diana Wynne Jones Reading Order

14 books (1986–2006)

Start with Dragons & Dreams, the first of 14 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Dragons & Dreams 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gaslight & Ghosts 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Arrows Of Eros 1989Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dragons and Warrior Daughters 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hidden Turnings 1989Buy 🇺🇸
6	Now We Are Sick 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	Fantasy Stories 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Spellbound 1995Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Treasury of Witches and Wizards 1996Buy 🇺🇸
10	Secret City 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	Firebirds 2003Buy 🇺🇸
12	Fantasy: Red Hot Reads 2004Buy 🇺🇸
13	Firebirds Rising 2005Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Wand in the Word 2006Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1977–2006)

Start with Charmed Life, the first of 6 books in the Chrestomanci series.

#	Title
1	Charmed Life 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Magicians of Caprona 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	Witch Week 1982Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Lives of Christopher Chant 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Conrad's Fate 2005Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Pinhoe Egg 2006Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2000–2000)

#	Title
1	Mixed Magics: Four Tales of Chrestomanci 2000Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1998–2000)

Start with Dark Lord of Derkholm and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dark Lord of Derkholm 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Year of the Griffin 2000Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1986–2008)

Start with Howl's Moving Castle and read in order.

#	Title
1	Howl's Moving Castle 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	Castle in the Air 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	House of Many Ways 2008Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (2004–2005)

Start with Howl's Moving Castle Picture Book, the first of 5 books in the Howl's Moving Castle Film Graphic Novels series.

#	Title
1	Howl's Moving Castle Picture Book 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	Howl's Moving Castle, Vol. 1 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	Howl's Moving Castle, Vol. 2 2005Buy 🇺🇸
4	Howl's Moving Castle, Vol. 3 2005Buy 🇺🇸
5	Howl's Moving Castle, Vol. 4 2005Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1958–1985)

Start with The Sherwood Ring(By: Elizabeth Marie Pope), the first of 19 books in the MagicQuest series.

#	Title
1	The Sherwood Ring(By: Elizabeth Marie Pope) 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Seventh Swan(By: Nicholas Stuart Gray) 1962Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dragon Hoard(By: Tanith Lee,Graham Oakley) 1971Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Throme of the Erril of Sherill(By: Patricia A. McKillip) 1973Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Magic Three of Solatia(By: Jane Yolen) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Perilous Gard(By: Elizabeth Marie Pope) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
7	Power of Three 1976Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Dark Lord of Pengersick(By: Richard Carlyon) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
9	Time Piper(By: Delia Huddy) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
10	East of Midnight(By: Tanith Lee) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Devil on the Road(By: Robert Westall) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Ash Staff(By: Paul R. Fisher) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
13	Tulku(By: Peter Dickinson) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Magicians of Caprona 1980Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Princess and the Thorn(By: Paul R. Fisher) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
16	Mont Cant Gold(By: Paul R. Fisher) 1981Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Hawks of Fellheath(By: Paul R. Fisher) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
18	Talking to Dragons(By: Patricia C. Wrede) 1985Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Last Days of the Edge of the World(By: Brian M. Stableford) 1985Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1997–2003)

Start with Deep Secret and read in order.

#	Title
1	Deep Secret 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Merlin Conspiracy 2003Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1984–2012)

Start with The Skiver's Guide and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Skiver's Guide 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Tough Guide to Fantasyland 1996Buy 🇺🇸
3	Reflections 2012Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1978–1992)

Start with Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? and read in order.

#	Title
1	Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	Yes Dear 1992Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1984–2012)

Start with Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories, the first of 6 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stopping for a Spell 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Minor Arcana 1996Buy 🇺🇸
4	Believing Is Seeing 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Unexpected Magic 2002Buy 🇺🇸
6	Vile Visitors 2012Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1970–2014)

Start with Changeover, the first of 24 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Changeover 1970Buy 🇺🇸
2	Wilkins' Tooth / Witch's Business 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Ogre Downstairs 1974Buy 🇺🇸
4	Dogsbody 1975Buy 🇺🇸
5	Eight Days of Luke 1975Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Four Grannies 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Homeward Bounders 1981Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Time of the Ghost 1981Buy 🇺🇸
9	Archer's Goon 1984Buy 🇺🇸
10	Fire and Hemlock 1985Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Tale of Time City 1987Buy 🇺🇸
12	Chair Person 1989Buy 🇺🇸
13	Wild Robert 1989Buy 🇺🇸
14	Aunt Maria / Black Maria 1991Buy 🇺🇸
15	A Sudden Wild Magic 1992Buy 🇺🇸
16	Hexwood 1993Buy 🇺🇸
17	Everard's Ride 1995Buy 🇺🇸
18	Puss in Boots 1999Buy 🇺🇸
19	Stealer of Souls 2000Buy 🇺🇸
20	Enna Hittims 2006Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Game 2007Buy 🇺🇸
22	Enchanted Glass 2010Buy 🇺🇸
23	Earwig and the Witch 2011Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Islands of Chaldea(With: Ursula Jones) 2014Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1975–1993)

Start with Cart and Cwidder, the first of 4 books in the The Dalemark Quartet series.

#	Title
1	Cart and Cwidder 1975Buy 🇺🇸
2	Drowned Ammet 1977Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Spellcoats 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Crown of Dalemark 1993Buy 🇺🇸