Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken was born in Rye, East Sussex on September 4th, 1924 and passed away at the age of 79 on January 4th, 2004.

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Joan Aiken Stats: The highest rated book by Joan Aiken on Book Notification is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, the first novel in The Wolves Chronicles series. The second-highest rated book is Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles #3).

The most read book by Joan Aiken on Book Notification is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, the first novel in The Wolves Chronicles series. The second most read book is Nightbirds on Nantucket (The Wolves Chronicles #3).

Below is a complete list of Joan Aiken books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Joan Aiken is The Wolves Chronicles Series.

List of Arabel and Mortimer Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Arabel's Raven
1972
2
Arabel, Mortimer, and the Escaped Black Mamba
1973
3
Mortimer's Bread Bin
1974
4
Mortimer's Tie
1976
5
The Spiral Stair
1979
6
Mortimer and the Sword Excalibur
1979
7
Arabel and Mortimer
1980
8
Mortimer's Portrait on Glass
1982
9
The Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi
1982
10
Mortimer's Cross
1983
11
Mortimer Says Nothing
1985
12
Mortimer and Arabel
1992
13
Mortimer's Pocket
1994
14
Mortimer's Mine
1995
15
Mayhem in Rumbury
1995
16
Arabel and Mortimer Stories
2019
17
More Arabel and Mortimer
2019

List of Armitage Family Books in Publication Order

List of Felix Brooke Books in Publication Order

List of Jane Austen Books in Publication Order

List of Paget Family Saga Books in Publication Order

List of Ribs of Death Books in Publication Order

List of St. Ives Books in Publication Order

List of The Wolves Chronicles Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
10
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
1962
2
10
Black Hearts in Battersea
1964
3
10
Nightbirds on Nantucket
1966
4
10
The Whispering Mountain
1968
5
10
The Cuckoo Tree
1971
6
10
The Stolen Lake
1981
7
10
Dido and Pa
1986
8
10
Is Underground
1992
9
10
Cold Shoulder Road
1995
10
10
Limbo Lodge / Dangerous Games
1998
11
10
Midwinter Nightingale
2003
12
10
The Witch of Clatteringshaws
2005

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The Angel Inn
1863
2
The Kingdom and the Cave
1960
3
The Silence of Herondale
1964
4
The Fortune Hunters
1965
5
Beware of the Bouquet / Trouble with Product X
1966
6
Dark Interval / Hate Begins at Home
1967
7
Night Fall
1969
8
The Embroidered Sunset
1970
9
A Cluster of Separate Sparks / The Butterfly Picnic
1972
10
Died on a Rainy Sunday
1972
11
Midnight Is a Place
1974
12
Voices in an Empty House
1975
13
Castle Barebane
1976
14
Last Movement
1977
15
The Five-Minute Marriage
1977
16
Mice and Mendelson
1978
17
The Shadow Guests
1980
18
The Kitchen Warriors
1983
19
Deception / If I Were You
1987
20
The Erl King's Daughter
1988
21
Blackground
1989
22
The Haunting of Lamb House
1991
23
The Cockatrice Boys
1993
24
The Midnight Moropus
1993
25
Morningquest
1993
26
The Jewel Seed
1996

List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

List of Picture Books in Publication Order

List of Plays in Publication Order

List of Collections in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
All You've Ever Wanted
1953
2
More Than You Bargained for
1957
3
Girl's Choice
1965
4
A Necklace of Raindrops
1968
5
A Small Pinch of Weather
1969
6
The Windscreen Weepers
1969
7
Smoke from Cromwell's Time
1970
8
The Kingdom Under the Sea
1971
9
The Green Flash
1971
10
A Harp of Fishbones
1972
11
Not What You Expected
1974
12
All But a Few
1974
13
The Faithless Lollybird
1975
14
The Skin Spinners
1976
15
Far Forests
1976
16
A Bundle of Nerves
1976
17
Tale of a One-Way Street
1978
18
A Touch of Chill
1979
19
Whisper in the Night
1983
20
Up the Chimney Down
1984
21
The Last Slice of Rainbow
1985
22
Past Eight O'Clock
1986
23
A Goose on Your Grave
1987
24
Give Yourself a Fright
1989
25
A Foot in the Grave
1989
26
A Fit of Shivers
1990
27
A Fit of Shivers / In Black and White
1992
28
The Winter Sleepwalker
1994
29
A Creepy Company
1995
30
A Handful of Gold
1995
31
Dead Man's Lane
1996
32
Casting a Spell and Other Poems
1996
33
Moon Cake
1998
34
Shadows & Moonshine
2001
35
Ghostly Beasts
2002
36
Snow Horse
2004
37
The Monkey's Wedding
2011
38
The People in the Castle
2016
39
The Gift Giving
2016

List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

List of Pan Book of Horror Stories Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories
1960
2
The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories
1962
3
The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories
1965
4
The 7th Pan Book of Horror Stories
1966
5
The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories
1967
6
The Eleventh Pan Book of Horror Stories
1970
7
The 13th Pan Book of Horror Stories
1972
8
The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories
1979
9
The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories
1980
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Anthology series.

List of The Year of the Cat Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe)
A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Annie Reed, Louisa Swann, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Ray Vukcevich, Dory Crowe)
2020
2
A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore)
A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Saki , Charles Dudley Warner, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Kari Kilgore)
2020
3
A Cat of Disdainful Looks (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rudyard Kipling, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mark Twain, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye)
A Cat of Disdainful Looks (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Rudyard Kipling, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mark Twain, Ray Vukcevich, John Adams, Jodi Lyn Nye)
2020
4
A Cat of Strange Lands (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders)
A Cat of Strange Lands (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Kent Patterson, Meyari McFarland, Leigh Saunders)
2020
5
A Cat of Cozy Situations (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ed Gorman, Carole Nelson Douglas, Dean Wesley Smith, W.W. Jacobs, Mary A. Turzillo, Dory Crowe)
2020
6
A Cat of Space and Time (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andre Norton, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mary Turzillo, Daemon Crowe)
A Cat of Space and Time (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Andre Norton, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mary Turzillo, Daemon Crowe)
2020
7
A Cat of Heroic Heart (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce)
A Cat of Heroic Heart (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Carole Nelson Douglas, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Lisa Silverthorne, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Liz Pierce)
2020
8
A Cat of Roving Nature (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Emile Zola, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dory Crowe, C.J. Erick, Sylvia Warner)
A Cat of Roving Nature (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Emile Zola, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dory Crowe, C.J. Erick, Sylvia Warner)
2020
9
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo)
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Henry Slesar, Annie Reed, Stefon Mears, Dean Wesley Smith, Mary Turzillo)
2021
10
A Cat of Fantastic Whims (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce)
A Cat of Fantastic Whims (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, E. Nesbit, Jamie Ferguson, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Dean Wesley Smith, Geoffrey A. Landis, Liz Pierce)
2021
11
A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell)
A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Brigid Collins, Dean Wesley Smith, Pamela Sargent, Jamie McNabb, Mary Turzillo, N. Margaret Campbell)
2021
12
A Cat of Romantic Soul (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anthea Sharp, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dean Wesley Smith, Kari Kilgore)
A Cat of Romantic Soul (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Anthea Sharp, Annie Reed, Lisa Silverthorne, Bonnie Elizabeth, Dean Wesley Smith, Kari Kilgore)
2021
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List of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Books in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2003
2
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 13 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2003
3
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2003
4
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 15 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2005
5
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2005
6
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 17 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2005
7
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 18 (By: Kelly Link)
2006
8
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19 (By: Kelly Link)
2006
9
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2007
10
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2007
11
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2008
12
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2008
13
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 24 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2009
14
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 25 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2009
15
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, No.26 December 2010 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2010
16
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27 (With: Kelly Link, Carol Emshwiller)
2011
17
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 28 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2012
18
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 29 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant, Jennifer Linnaea)
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 29 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant, Jennifer Linnaea)
2013
19
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2013
20
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31 (By: Kelly Link)
2014
21
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 (By: Kelly Link, Michael J. DeLuca)
2015
22
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34 (By: Kelly Link)
2016
23
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 36 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2017
24
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant, Izzy Wasserstein)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant, Izzy Wasserstein)
2018
25
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38 ( By: Kelly Link)
2018
26
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42 (By: Kelly Link, Gavin J Grant)
2020
27
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45 (By: Kelly Link)
2022
28
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43 ( By: Kelly Link)
2023
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List of Joan Aiken Anthologies in Publication Order

# ReadTitle Avg. Year Book Link
1
Out of Time
0
2
The Tenth Pan Book of Horror Stories
1969
3
The 5th Armada Ghost Book
1973
4
Baker's Dozen of Stories for Young People
1974
5
The Tenth Ghost Book
1974
6
Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex
1975
7
The Bumper Book of Ghost Stories
1976
8
Ghosts That Haunt You
1980
9
The Faber Book of Modern Fairy Tales
1981
10
Black Eyes and Other Spine Chillers
1981
11
65 Great Spine Chillers
1982
12
Over the Rainbow
1983
13
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories
1984
14
Supernatural Stories: 13 Tales of the Unexpected
1987
15
First Annual Collection
1988
16
Second Annual Collection
1989
17
Third Annual Collection
1989
18
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
1990
19
Drabble II: Double Century
1990
20
Silver Jackanory
1991
21
Chilling Christmas Tales
1992
22
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
1993
23
Haunting Christmas Tales
1993
24
Fantasy Stories
1994
25
What's for Dinner?: And Other Stories
1994
26
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women
1995
27
A Treasury of Ghost Stories
1996
28
Simply the Best
1996
29
Mystery Stories
1996
30
Where the Red Fern Grows and Related Readings
1997
31
Secret City
1997
32
The Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-Year-Olds
1999
33
A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories
2000
34
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature
2002
35
Dancing with the Dark
2009
36
Psychos
2012
37
Best New Horror 23
2012
38
The Lobster's Birthday and Other Stories
2014
39
A Cat of Disdainful Looks
2020
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Joan Aiken: Biography

Joan Aiken was born on September 4th, 1924. Joan passed away January 4th, 2004 at 79 years old. Joan Aiken was born in Rye, East Sussex.

Joan Aiken was the author of the Joan Aiken Collections series which consists of 39 novels. The Joan Aiken Collections series started in 1953 with the novel All You've Ever Wanted. The most recently released novel in the Joan Aiken Collections series was The Gift Giving which was released in 2016. There are no upcoming novels for the Joan Aiken Collections series.

Joan Aiken: Awards & Accolades

Aiken's books have won multiple awards, First Annual Collection won the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1989. Second Annual Collection won the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1990. The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women won the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1996.

Joan Aiken books have also been nominated for multiple awards, Third Annual Collection was nominated for the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1991. The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales was nominated for the World Fantasy Award, Anthology, in 1994.

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Joan Aiken: F.A.Q

When was Joan Aiken Born?

Joan Aiken was born on September 4th, 1924.

When did Joan Aiken die?

Joan Aiken died on January 4th, 2004 at 79 years old.

Where was Joan Aiken Born?

Joan Aiken was born in Rye, East Sussex, .

What book awards has Joan Aiken won?

First Annual Collection: World Fantasy Award Anthology (1989).
Second Annual Collection: World Fantasy Award Anthology (1990).
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women: World Fantasy Award Anthology (1996).

What was the first book Joan Aiken wrote?

The first novel written by Joan Aiken was The Angel Inn, published in 1863.

What was the most recent book Joan Aiken wrote?

Their most recently released work was A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities on February 22nd, 2021.

How many books has Joan Aiken written?

Joan Aiken has written 125 books across 18 series.
  • 17 books in the Arabel and Mortimer Series
  • 2 books in the Armitage Family Series
  • 3 books in the Felix Brooke Series
  • 6 books in the Jane Austen Series
  • 3 books in the Paget Family Saga Series
  • 2 books in the Ribs of Death Series
  • 3 books in the St. Ives Series
  • 12 books in The Wolves Chronicles Series
  • 26 Standalone Novels
  • 4 Short Stories/Novellas
  • 3 Picture Books
  • 3 Plays
  • 39 Collections
  • 1 Non-Fiction Books
  • 1 book in The Year of the Cat Series
  • 1 book in the Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Series

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