The Fantasy Genre
Here they are: the books
I read the most...at this moment in time, at least. I hope you take my opinions...I
think I have excellent taste in literature!
Kids/YA
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- Eva Ibbotson
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- A fun and lighthearted
author. Without having read more than the first two chapters, you could
predict the plot with no trouble whatsoever...however, her angle
on these classic storylines is unusual, amusing, and, above all, just
plain funny!She does, in her later ones, use the book less as a
story to entertain and more as a political/environmental causes issue,
but the stories are still worth enjoying, very much so.
Her Books
-
The Secret of Platform
13
- Which Witch?
- Island of the Aunts
- Dial-A-Ghost
- Not Just a Witch
- Journey to the River
Sea
- The Great Ghost Rescue
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- Patricia C. Wrede
-
- An absolutely wonderful
author. No, don't read her very earliest--how Seven Towers got
published in that raw form, I'll never know--but all her later and
well-known ones are spectacular!!
Her Series
- The Enchanted
Forest
-
Dealing With Dragons
- Searching For Dragons
- Calling On Dragons
- Talking to Dragons
- Utensile Strength
(this is a short story, to be found in the collection Book of Enchantments)
- Lyra
- Shadows Over
Lyra (a collection)
- The Harp of Imach
Thyssel
- Daughter of Witches
- Shadow Magic
- Caught in Crystal
- Mairelon
- Mairelon the Magician
- Magician's Ward
Other Books
- Book of Enchantments
(a collection of short stories)
- Sorcery and
Cecilia (in collaboration w/ Caroline Stevermer)
Diana Wynne Jones
Marvelous, marvelous, versatile
writer, capable of making you laugh, making you feel stalked, making you cry,
and making you think about the
world around you. Wonderful
characterization, wonderful plots, wonderful settings/premises, wonderful levels...all
of her books will contain at least one of
these, and usually all four.
Her Series
- Howl and Company
-
Howl's Moving Castle
- Castle in the Air
- Chrestomanci
- The Lives of Christopher
Chant
- Magicians of Caprona
- Charmed Life
- Witch Week
- Sage of Theare (to
be found in the SSC Mixed Magics and Believing is Seeing.)
- Warlock at the
Wheel (to be found in the SSC Mixed Magics and Warlock at
the Wheel and Other Stories.)
- Mixed Magics (a
collection of four short stories with Chrestomanci)
- Sage of Theare
- Warlock at the
Wheel
- Dalemark Quartet
- Cart and Cwidder
- Drowned Ammet
- The Spellcoats
- Crown of Dalemark
Other Books
-
Archer's Goon
- Homeward Bounders
- Dogsbody
- Eight Days of Luke
- Fire and Hemlock
- Power of Three
- A Tale of Time City
- The Ogre Downstairs
- Aunt Maria
- Hexwood
- Time of the Ghost
- Yes, Dear (for
little children)
- Wild Robert (for
little children)
- Deep Secret (for
adults)
- A Sudden Wild Magic
(for adults)
Short Story Collections
- Stopping for a Spell
- Mixed Magics
- Warlock at the Wheel
and Other Stories
Included in these
Collections
- Hidden Turnings; Ed.
by: Diana Wynne Jones; Story: "The Master"
- Fantasy Stories;
Ed. by: Diana Wynne Jones; Story: "What the Cat Told Me"
- Mystery Stories;
Ed. by: Helen Cresswell; Story: "The Master"
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Elucreh Adireuq Hallulat
May, 2003
