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audience
  • @ adult; that is, certainly not simply a children's writer
first reading (writers)
  • @@ boy
  • @ adult
  • — 2010s

ABAND NOT READING UNREAD

Lincoln time travel -- Wilson Tucker and one or two others

Zolotow Bunny (Parnassus, 1959) https://lccn.loc.gov/59007370


Joan Blos

UNREAD A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal (1979)

Nancy Farmer

Mollie Hunter

NOT The Stronghold (novel) (1974)
ABAND A Stranger Came Ashore (1975)

Rudyard Kipling @@

? The Light That Failed

Laura Amy Schlitz

NOT Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village (2007)

Rosemary Sutcliff

NOT Eagle of the Ninth

Nancy Willard

UNREAD A Visit to William Blake's Inn, illus. Alice and Martin Provensen




A–Z

Lynn Abbey @ see Robert Asprin

Richard Adams @@

Watership Down (1972)

Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Son of a Gun (1979) (picture)

Joan Aiken

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962) = Wolves Chronicles #1
Black Hearts in Battersea (1964) #2
UNREAD Nightbirds on Nantucket (1966) #3

Lloyd Alexander @@
Lloyd Alexander bibliography should be

The Chronicles of Prydain (6); Category:The Chronicles of Prydain
Westmark #1
Vesper Holly (4) of 6
Time Cat (1963)
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian (1970)
The Wizard in the Tree (1974)
The Town Cats and Other Tales (1977)
The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha (1978)
The Arkadians (1995)
The Iron Ring (1997)
The Gawgon and the Boy (2001)
The Rope Trick (2002)
The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio (2007)

David Almond

UNREAD Skellig (1998)

@ Poul Anderson

ABAND Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953)
ABAND The Broken Sword (1954, 1971), second edition

@ Piers Anthony @@
Piers Anthony bibliography

Macroscope (1969)
A Spell for Chameleon = Xanth #1 (1977)
The Source of Magic = Xanth #2 (1979)

Philip Ardagh

A House Called Awful End; orig. Awful End (2000)

@ Robert Asprin @

Thieves' World series: Thieves World (1979) #1 and several others
ABAND Another Fine Myth (1978) = Myth Adventures #1

Avi (writer) (Edward Irving Wortis) —

No More Magic (1975)
Emily Upham's Revenge or How Deadwood Dick Saved the Banker's Niece: A Massachusetts Adventure (1978)
The Fighting Ground (1984)
The Man Who Was Poe (1989)
Perloo the Bold (1998)
Midnight Magic (1999)
Crispin: The Cross of Lead (2002) = Crispin #1

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Miss Hickory (1946)

James M. Barrie

Peter and Wendy (1904 play; 1911)

L. Frank Baum @@

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) #1 and many other Oz Books (?) -- all 14 written by LFBaum
ABAND? The Magical Monarch of Mo (1903); 1899 as A New Wonderland
NONFICTION

John Bellairs @@

The Face in the Frost (1969) "meant for adult readers"
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973) "[rewritten] as a young readers' book"
The Trolley to Yesterday (1989) = Johnny Dixon #6

Ludwig Bemelmans @@

Madeleine series (picture)

@ John Gregory Betancourt

The Dawn of Amber (2002–05) (4)
  1. The Dawn of Amber (2002)
  2. Chaos and Amber (2003)
  3. To Rule in Amber (2004); more or less completing a trilogy
  4. Shadows of Amber (2005)

Lucy M. Boston

The Children of Green Knowe (1954) #1 of 6
NOT A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961) #4 is the Carnegie winner

@ Leigh Brackett

Eric John Stark novelizations of 2 of 3 stories; so-called Eric John Stark: Outlaw of Mars (1964 double)

Walter R. Brooks

SIONA Freddy the Pig, illus. Kurt Wiese

Mary and Conrad Buff @@

Big Tree (novel) (1946)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885–86)
A Little Princess (1905) -- Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School (1888)
The Secret Garden (1910–11)

@ Lewis Carroll @@

Alice's Adventures Underground
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893)
some Letters
NONFICTION

@ Arthur C. Clarke @

Tales from the White Hart (1957) (coll.)
ABAND reread

Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl (novel) (2001) #1 of 8
The Supernaturalist (2004)

Barbara Cooney

Miss Rumphius (1982) (picture)

Susan Cooper

ABAND Mandrake (1964)
Over Sea, Under Stone #1 (1965); The Dark is Rising #2 (1973) of 5
The Boggart (1993) = Boggart #1
King of Shadows (1999)
The Magician's Boy (2005) (picture)

Robert Cormier

ABAND The Chocolate War (1974)

Sharon Creech

Ruby Holler (2002)

Kevin Crossley-Holland

The Seeing Stone (2000) = Arthur #1

Roald Dahl @

James and the Giant Peach (1961)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)

Marguerite de Angeli
(as illustrator only) ??

The Door in the Wall (1949)

Daniel Defoe @@

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Meindert DeJong

The Wheel on the School (1954), ill. Sendak

Kate DiCamillo

SIONA Mercy Watson, illus. Chris Van Dusen

Peter Dickinson

UNREAD A Bone from a Dry Sea

Diane Duane

So You Want to Be a Wizard (1983) #1 of Young Wizards

William Pène du Bois -- see Pène du Bois under P

Edward Eager

Half Magic (1954) #1
Knight's Castle (1956) #2
Magic By the Lake (1957) #3, second in the fictional history
The Time Garden (1958)
Magic or Not? (1959)
The Well-Wishers (1960)
Seven-Day Magic (1961)

perhaps read all twice

Elizabeth Enright

Thimble Summer (1938)

Eleanor Estes

Ginger Pye (1951)

@ Philip Jose Farmer

of 5+ Riverworld series
Riverworld and other stories (1979) (coll. 1966-1979) -- read all inclg title novella "Riverworld" (1966)

Rachel Field

Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929)

Sid Fleischman

The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story (1995)

twice

@ Karen Wynn Fonstad @

The Atlas of Middle-earth (1981; 1992)
The Atlas of Pern (1984)

Esther Forbes @@

Johnny Tremain (1943)

Paula Fox

The Slave Dancer (1973)

Jean Fritz @

UNREAD Homesick: My Own Story
[?] Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?

Neil Gaiman

ABAND Coraline (2002)

Leon Garfield

Smith]] (1967)

@ Alan Garner @

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) #1 of 3 Alderley Edge stories
The Moon of Gomrath (1963) #2 of 3
Elidor (1965)
The Owl Service (1967)

Jean Craighead George @@

? My Side of the Mountain (1959)
Julie of the Wolves (1972)

Fred Gipson @@

Old Yeller (1956)

Elizabeth Janet Gray -- see Elizabeth Gray Vining under V

@ Roger Lancelyn Green

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956)
ABAND Tales of Ancient Egypt (1967)

Virginia Hamilton

UNREAD The House of Dies Drear (1968)

@ Nathaniel Hawthorne @@

The Scarlet Letter (1850)
? A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1852) (coll.)
? Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) (coll.)

Marguerite Henry @@ —

Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1945; revised 1954)
King of the Wind: the Story of the Godolphin Arabian (1948)
? Misty

Karen Hesse

UNREAD Letters from Rifka (1992)

Nonny Hogrogian

One Fine Day (book) (1971) (picture)

Irene Hunt @@

Across Five Aprils (1964)
UNREAD Up a Road Slowly (1966)

Eva Ibbotson

Which Witch? (1979)
The Secret of Platform 13 (1994)
UNREAD Journey to the River Sea (2001)
The Ogre of Oglefort (2010)

Will James (artist) @@

Smoky the Cow Horse (1926)

Tony Johnston (Sarah Taylor Johnston) at ISFDB

The Spoon in the Bathroom Wall (2005)

Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones bibliography

"Magic" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
Illustrated chapter books: Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? (1978/75); The Four Grannies (1980); Chair Person (1989) =?= constituting Stopping for a Spell (1993) (coll.)
Chrestomanci (7) Chrestomanci
   Charmed Life (1977)
   The Magicians of Caprona (1980)
   Witch Week (1982)
   The Lives of Christopher Chant'' (1988)
   Mixed Magics (2000), short stories published 1982 to 2000
   Conrad's Fate (2005)
   The Pinhoe Egg (2006) 
Dalemark (4) Dalemark Quartet
   The Spellcoats (1979)
   Cart and Cwidder (1975)
   Drowned Ammet (1977)
   Crown of Dalemark (1993)
Howl's Moving Castle; or Wizard Howl (3)
   Howl's Moving Castle (1986) 
   Castle in the Air (1990)
   House of Many Ways (2008)
Magids (2)
   Deep Secret (1997), marketed for adults
   The Merlin Conspiracy (2003)
Fantasyland / Derkholm (2 or 3)
   The Tough Guide To Fantasyland (1996; revised?) #0 of 2
   Dark Lord of Derkholm (1998) #1
   Year of the Griffin (2000) #2 
Witch's Business; orig. Wilkins' Tooth (1973)
The Ogre Downstairs (1974)
Dogsbody (1975)
Power of Three (1977)
The Time of the Ghost (1981)
The Homeward Bounders (1981)
Archer's Goon (1984)
Fire and Hemlock (1984)
A Tale of Time City (1987)
Black Maria (1991); U.S. Aunt Maria
A Sudden Wild Magic (1992), marketed for adults
Hexwood (1993)
Everard's Ride (1994), one novella in NESFA collection
The Game (novella) (2007)
Enchanted Glass (2010)
Earwig and the Witch (2011)
The Islands of Chaldea (2014), Diana and Ursula Jones


Elaine Konigsburg
Elaine Konigsburg bibliography should be

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth (1967), self-illus.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967), self-illus.
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (1973), self-illus.
The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper (1974), self-illus.
The Second Mrs. Giaconda (1975)
Father's Arcane Daughter (1976)
Journey to an 800 Number (1982)

the following were her last five published books, we believe

NONFICTION TalkTalk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-ups (1998)
The View from Saturday (1996)
Silent to the Bone (2000)
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (2004)
The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (2007)

@ C. M. Kornbluth — see Frederick Pohl

Robert Lawson
(as illustrator only, The Story of Ferdinand (1936, wr. Leaf) ; Adam of the Road (1942, wr. Gray Vining)

Rabbit Hill (1944)
Mr. Revere and I (1953)

@ Ursula K. Le Guin @@
Ursula K. Le Guin bibliography

Earthsea (3+); Category:Earthsea
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Word for World is Forest

Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time (1962) #1 of 5? confusing cross-series; we say "Kairos: First-generation (Murry-mindel)"

C. S. Lewis @@ subject of high school senior project
C. S. Lewis bibliography

Ransom Trilogy (3+)
The Chronicles of Narnia (7); Narnia (world); Category:The Chronicles of Narnia
more
some Letters (nf)

Astrid Lindgren @@

as child Pippi Longstocking (novel) (1945) #1 Pippi Longstocking series
ABAND The Six Bullerby Children (1947)
Ronia the Robber's Daughter (engl. 1984) Batchelder Award

@ Penelope Lively

Astercote (1970, first book)
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (1973)
NOT A Stitch in Time (Lively novel)

Arnold Lobel

SIONA Frog and Toad Are Friends (1970) #1 of 4 Frog and Toad books
SIONA Frog and Toad Together (1972) #2 of 4
more?

Hugh Lofting

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

or other? (revised)

David Macaulay

Cathedral (1973) Castle (1977) Mosque (2003)
Baaa (1985)
Black and White (1990)
Rome Antics (1997)
The Way We Work (2008)

Patricia MacLachlan

Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985) = #1 of 5

@ Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey bibliography

Black Horses for the King
Crystal Singer = #1 of 3
Decision at Doona = #1 doona
Pern (24 of 25); Category:Dragonriders of Pern
ABAND Restoree
The Ship Who Sang = #1 brainships
Talents
Pegasus (3)
Lyon's Pride = Tower and Hive #4 of 5

@ Todd McCaffrey

NONFICTION Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams (so Far) of Anne McCaffrey (1999)

Geraldine McCaughrean

Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006)

Robert McCloskey @@

Make Way for Ducklings
Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine
Homer Price?, Lentil

Patricia McKillip @

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)

Riddle-Master trilogy

The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976)
Heir of Sea and Fire (1977)
Harpist in the Wind (1978)

Robin McKinley

The Hero and the Crown (1984)

Cornelia Meigs

Invincible Louisa (1933)

@ Michael Moorcock

ABAND Elric of M. #1

@ C. L. Moore

Jirel of Joiry (debut story)
Northwest Smith (debut story)

E. Nesbit @@

The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899/98) = Bastables #1
The Wouldbegoods (1901/99) #2
The Railway Children (1906/1905)
Five Children (3) of 3
  1. Five Children and It (1902)
  2. The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
  3. The Story of the Amulet (1906)
The Complete Book Of Dragons (1972) (coll.) or The Last of the Dragons (includes one more story?)
The Enchanted Castle (1907)

Evaline Ness
(as illustrator only) Prydain picture books by Lloyd Alexander

Sam, Bangs and Moonshine (1966) (picture)

Jenny Nimmo

Charlie Bone (8) of 8 Children of the Red King (2002–2010)
ABAND(?) The Secret Kingdom (1) of 3+ Chronicles of the Red King (2011-ongoing)

Ursula Nordstrom

The Secret Language (1960)

Andre Norton
Andre Norton bibliography

The Prince Commands (1934, first publ. novel)
Ralestone Luck (1938, first novel)
Huon of the Horn (1951, adaptation)
Star Man's Son, 2250 A.D. (1952, first science fiction)

Witch World series (?)

Estcarp
Witch World (novel) (1963) #1
Web of the Witch World (1964) #2
Three Against the Witch World (1965) #3
? Ware Hawk (1983)
High Hallack
Year of the Unicorn (1965) – first High Hallack
The Crystal Gryphon (1972) – first Gryphon
(?) Spell of the Witch World (1972), collection = DAW Books #1
The Jargoon Pard (1974)
Gryphon in Glory (1981) – second Gryphon
Horn Crown (1981) – earliest in fictional history
Gryphon's Eyrie (1984), with A. C. Crispin – third Gryphon
The Warding of Witch World (1996)

Mary Norton (author) @@

The Borrowers (1952) #1 of 5, US illus. Beth and Joe Krush
Are All the Giants Dead? (1975), illus. Brian Froud

@ Jody Lynn Nye

Dragonharper (1987)
Dragonfire (1988)
Encyclopedia of Xanth (1987)
Ghost of a Chance (1988)
nonfiction The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern (1989)

Robert C. O'Brien

The Silver Crown (both final chapter, 1988)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Scott O'Dell @@

UNREAD Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960)
The Black Pearl (1967) --? or John Steinbeck, The Pearl ?

Uri Orlev

The Man from the Other Side (engl. 1992) Batchelder Award
UNREAD? Run, Boy, Run (engl. 2004) Batchelder Award

broadly Holocaust fiction

Edward Ormondroyd

Time at the Top (1963)
All in Good Time (1975), sequel to Time at the Top

Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson bibliography

Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)

Philippa Pearce

Tom's Midnight Garden (1958)

Richard Peck

Voices After Midnight (1989)

William Pène du Bois @@

The Twenty-One Balloons (1946)
Peter Graves (1950)

@ Frederik Pohl

NOT READ Alternating Currents (1956, debut coll.)
The Case Against Tomorrow (1957, second coll.)
Slave Ship (1956, debut solo)
Drunkard's Walk (1960)
Pohl & Kornbluth: The Space Merchants (1953, debut collab.); Gladiator at Law (1955; 1986)

@ Terry Pratchett

ABAND The Colour of Magic (1983) = Discworld #1 of dozens

Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass; orig. Northern Lights (novel) (1995) #1 of 3 His Dark Materials

Arthur Ransome

Swallows and Amazons (1930) #1 of 12 Swallows and Amazons series

Ellen Raskin
(as illustrator only) A Wrinkle in Time (1962, wr. L'Engle)

Figgs & Phantoms (1974)
The Westing Game (1978)

twice

Hans Peter Richter

Friedrich (engl. 1972)

Holocaust fiction

Chris Riddell (illus.) — see Richard Pratt

Castle Diary (1999) #1
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter (2001) #2
Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver"
ABAND The Edge Chronicles #1

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson & the Olympians -- 1,2 of 5 from 2005
The Heroes of Olympus -- 1 of 5 from 2010
The Kane Chronicles -- 1,3 of 3

J. K. Rowling @

Harry Potter (7 +3) of 7 +3; Category:Harry Potter

1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone 2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 
Quidditch Through the Ages
The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Cynthia Rylant

Missing May (1992)

Louis Sachar

Holes (novel) (1998)

Ruth Sawyer

Roller Skates (1936)

Michael Scott (Irish author)

ABAND Ire

Kate Seredy

The White Stag (1937)

Mary Shelley @

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Zlateh The Goat and Other Stories (1966), illus. Sendak (coll.)
When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw and Other Stories (1968), illus. Zemach (coll.)

Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) —

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (1999) #1; The Wide Window (2000) #3 of 13
looked at some companion books
All the Wrong Questions: Who Could That Be at This Hour? (2012) #1, #2 of 4 forthcoming

Laurel Snyder

Penny Dreadful (2010)

Zilpha Snyder

The Egypt Game (1967)

Elizabeth George Speare @@

UNREAD The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958)
The Bronze Bow (1961)

Armstrong Sperry @@

Call It Courage (1940)

Jerry Spinelli

The Library Card (coll.)

Nancy Springer @

The White Hart (1979) -- Book of the Isle #1 and maybe others of 5
Enola Holmes (6) of 6, 2006 to 2010

@ Olaf Stapledon

ABAND Last and First Men (1930)
ABAND Last Men in London (1932)

William Steig

SIONA Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969) (picture)
SIONA The Amazing Bone (1976) (picture)
SIONA Doctor De Soto (1982) (picture)
? Solomon: The Rusty Nail (1985)

Robert Louis Stevenson @@

Treasure Island (1883/81) Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola serial title 1881; The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island: a Story for Boys provisional title 1882
Kidnapped (novel) (1886)
Catriona (novel) (1893), sequel, or David Balfour
as adult: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

@ Jonathan Swift

as schoolboy A Modest Proposal
Gulliver's Travels (1726; 1735)

(Annotated by Isaac Asimov?)

@ James Thurber @@

The White Deer (1945)
The Story of O
my life and welcome to it? with Simont?

P. L. Travers @@

Mary Poppins series (4)

as adult reread, partly with SIONA, and continue the series

Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane (1982)
Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (1988)

James Ullman @@

Banner in the Sky (filmed 1959)

Hendrik Willem van Loon @@

NONFICTION The Story of Mankind (1921)
(Diane owns others, mainly for illus.)

Jack Vance

The Dying Earth (1950) (coll. unpubl.)

Jules Verne @@
Jules Verne bibliography

Voyages Extraordinaires series, 54 completed by himself (1863–1905)

Elizabeth Gray Vining (Elizabeth Janet Gray) —

Adam of the Road (1943)

Jill Paton Walsh

UNREAD The Emperor's Winding Sheet (1974)

H. G. Wells @
H. G. Wells bibliography

The Time Machine (1895)

probably read twice

ABAND The Invisible Man (1897)
NONFICTION ?

E. B. White @@

Charlotte's Web (1952)
Stuart Little (1945)

Laura Ingalls Wilder @@

SIONA some Little House books

Jacqueline Wilson

Bad Girls

Maia Wojciechowska @@

Shadow of a Bull (1964)

Elvira Woodruff

The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape from the Tower of London (2003)

Edward Irving Wortis; see Avi (author)

@ Roger Zelazny @

The Chronicles of Amber (10+) -- see also John Betancourt
Writer work
@ Christopher Tolkien
+ J. R. R. Tolkien
The History of Middle-earth #10, #11, #12
Category:The History of Middle-earth
@@ P. L. Travers Mary Poppins (4)
SIONA
Elizabeth Yates (author) Amos Fortune, Free Man (1951)
Laurence Yep Sweetwater (1973, first book)
Jane Yolen Dragon's Blood (1982)
The Devil's Arithmetic (1988) Holocaust fiction
Wizard's Hall (1991)
The Wizard's Map (1999)


Nonfiction

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general

Leonard S. Marcus, Minders of Make-Believe

specific

Paul F. Ford, The Companion to Narnia
Todd McCaffrey, Dragonholder

Cooper? Konigsburg?

Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway
Newbery & Caldecott
Carnegie
David Pringle, [[ ; [[
? the British Nanny
? H. Rider Haggard


User space drafts

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Father's Arcane Daughter (1976, My Father's Daughter; Caroline)
The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper (1974)
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (1973)