Joan Aiken Books in Order
Joan Aiken is a celebrated English writer, renowned for her captivating works in wild fantasy, Gothic novels, and short stories. Recognized for her significant contributions to Children's Literature, she was awarded the MBE. Born into a family of writers, including her father Conrad Aiken, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and her sister Jane Aiken Hodge, Aiken's writing career began with stints at the United Nations Information Office and as an editor and freelance writer for Argosy magazine. She later transitioned to writing full-time, producing a range of children's books and thrillers, earning her the Guardian Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972). Her iconic series, "The Wolves Chronicles," transports readers to an alternate historical Britain, while her Arabel and Mortimer series, illustrated by Quentin Blake, has delighted audiences in various forms of media.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by Joan Aiken
- #1AmazonArabel's Raven(1972)
- #2AmazonArabel, Mortimer, and the Escaped Black Mamba(1973)
- #3AmazonMortimer's Bread Bin(1974)
- #4AmazonMortimer's Tie(1976)
- #5AmazonThe Spiral Stair(1979)
- #6AmazonMortimer and the Sword Excalibur(1979)
- #7AmazonArabel and Mortimer(1980)
- #8AmazonMortimer's Portrait on Glass(1982)
- #9AmazonThe Mystery of Mr. Jones's Disappearing Taxi(1982)
- #10AmazonMortimer's Cross(1983)
- #11AmazonMortimer Says Nothing(1985)
- #12AmazonMortimer and Arabel(1992)
- #13AmazonMortimer's Pocket(1994)
- #14AmazonMortimer's Mine(1995)
- #15AmazonMayhem in Rumbury(1995)
- #16AmazonArabel and Mortimer Stories(2019)
- #17AmazonMore Arabel and Mortimer(2019)
- #1AmazonThe Barber's Clever Wife (By: Narinder Dhami)(2004)
- #2AmazonOn the Ghost Trail (By: Chris Powling)(2006)
- #3AmazonThe Queen's Token (By: Pamela Oldfield)(2008)
- #4AmazonPandora's Box (By: Rose Impey)(2013)
- #5AmazonMacbeth (By: Tony Bradman)(2020)
- #6AmazonTaliesin (By: Maggie Pearson)(2020)
- #7AmazonThe Thing in the Basement (By: Michaela Morgan)(2020)
- #8AmazonFinding Fizz (By: Jenny Alexander)(2020)
- #9AmazonHarry's House of Invention (By: Rachel Anderson)(2020)
- #10AmazonDetective Dan (By: Vivian French)(2020)
- #11AmazonStoneywish and other chilling stories(2020)
- #12AmazonShock Forest and other magical stories (By: Margaret Mahy)(2020)
- #13AmazonThe Path of Finn McCool (By: Sally Prue)(2020)
- #14AmazonThe Boy in the Jam Jar (By: Joyce Dunbar)(2020)
- #15AmazonThe Story Thief (By: Andrew Fusek Peters,Sara Ugolotti)(2020)
- #16AmazonMy Other Life (By: Polly Ho-Yen)(2020)
- #17AmazonMy Friend the Alien (By: Zanib Mian)(2020)
- #18AmazonTo Liberty! The Adventures of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (By: Catherine Johnson)(2020)
- #19AmazonThe Tempest (By: Franzeska G. Ewart)(2021)
- #20AmazonThe Hound of Ulster (By: Malachy Doyle,Erin Brown)(2021)
- #21AmazonWings of Icarus (By: Jenny Oldfield)(2021)
- #22AmazonScratch and Sniff (By: Margaret Ryan)(2021)
- #23AmazonSindhu and Jeet's Detective Agency (By: Chitra Soundar)(2021)
- #24AmazonRuby Ali's Mission Break Up (By: Sufiya Ahmed)(2021)
- #25AmazonBamba Beach (By: Pratima Mitchell)(2021)
- #26AmazonThe Night the Moon Went Out (By: Samantha Baines,Lucy Rogers)(2021)
- #27AmazonPing and the Missing Ring (By: Emma Shevah)(2021)
- #1AmazonReturn to Harken House(1988)
- #2AmazonGhost Abbey (By: Robert Westall)(1988)
- #3AmazonDon't Go Near The Water (By: Carolyn Sloan)(1988)
- #4AmazonThe Nightmare Man (By: Tessa Krailing)(1988)
- #5AmazonPicking Up the Threads (By: Ian Strachan)(1989)
- #6AmazonThe Haunting Of Sophie Bartholomew (By: Elizabeth Lindsay)(1989)
- #7AmazonThe Bone Dog (By: Susan Price)(1989)
- #8AmazonOld Man On A Horse (By: Robert Westall)(1989)
- #9AmazonNobody's Child (By: Anthony Masters)(1991)
- #10AmazonThe Doll Graveyard (By: Lois Ruby)(2014)
- #11AmazonThe Secret Grave (By: Lois Ruby)(2017)
- #1AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 12 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2003)
- #2AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 13 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2003)
- #3AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2003)
- #4AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 15 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2005)
- #5AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 16 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2005)
- #6AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 17 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2005)
- #7AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 18 (By: Gavin Grant)(2006)
- #8AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 19 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin Grant)(2006)
- #9AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 20 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2007)
- #10AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 21 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2007)
- #11AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 22 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2008)
- #12AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 23 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2008)
- #13AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 24 (By: Kelly Link,Jedediah Berry,Gavin J Grant)(2009)
- #14AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 25 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2009)
- #15AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, No.26 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2010)
- #16AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27(2011)
- #17AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 28 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin Grant,Junyi Wu)(2012)
- #18AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 29 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin Grant)(2013)
- #19AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 30 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2013)
- #20AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31 (By: Kelly Link)(2014)
- #21AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 33 (By: Kelly Link,Michael J. DeLuca)(2015)
- #22AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34 (By: Kelly Link)(2016)
- #23AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 36 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin Grant)(2017)
- #24AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant,Izzy Wasserstein)(2018)
- #25AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38 (By: Kelly Link)(2018)
- #26AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin J Grant)(2020)
- #27AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43 (By: Kelly Link)(2020)
- #28AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 44 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin Grant)(2021)
- #29AmazonLady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45 (By: Kelly Link)(2022)
- #30AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 48 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin Grant)(2024)
- #31AmazonLady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 49 (By: Kelly Link,Gavin Grant)(2024)
- #1AmazonThe Way to Write for Children(1982)
- #1AmazonThe Moon's Revenge(1987)
- #2AmazonSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs(2002)
- #3AmazonThe Wooden Dragon(2004)
- #4AmazonWinterthing(1972)
- #5AmazonThe Mooncusser's Daughter(1974)
- #6AmazonStreet(1978)
- #7AmazonAll You've Ever Wanted(1953)
- #8AmazonMore Than You Bargained for(1957)
- #9AmazonGirl's Choice(1965)
- #10AmazonA Necklace of Raindrops(1968)
- #11AmazonA Small Pinch of Weather(1969)
- #12AmazonThe Windscreen Weepers(1969)
- #13AmazonSmoke from Cromwell's Time(1970)
- #14AmazonThe Kingdom Under the Sea(1971)
- #15AmazonThe Green Flash(1971)
- #16AmazonA Harp of Fishbones(1972)
- #17AmazonAll But a Few(1974)
- #18AmazonNot What You Expected(1974)
- #19AmazonThe Faithless Lollybird(1975)
- #20AmazonThe Skin Spinners(1976)
- #21AmazonFar Forests(1976)
- #22AmazonTale of a One-Way Street(1978)
- #23AmazonA Touch of Chill(1979)
- #24AmazonWhisper in the Night(1983)
- #25AmazonUp the Chimney Down(1984)
- #26AmazonThe Last Slice of Rainbow(1985)
- #27AmazonPast Eight O'Clock(1986)
- #28AmazonA Goose on Your Grave(1987)
- #29AmazonGive Yourself a Fright(1989)
- #30AmazonA Foot in the Grave(1989)
- #31AmazonA Fit of Shivers(1990)
- #32AmazonA Fit of Shivers / In Black and White(1992)
- #33AmazonThe Winter Sleepwalker(1994)
- #34AmazonA Creepy Company(1995)
- #35AmazonA Handful of Gold(1995)
- #36AmazonDead Man's Lane(1996)
- #37AmazonCasting a Spell and Other Poems(1996)
- #38AmazonMoon Cake(1998)
- #39AmazonShadows & Moonshine(2001)
- #40AmazonGhostly Beasts(2002)
- #41AmazonSnow Horse(2004)
- #42AmazonThe Monkey's Wedding(2011)
- #43AmazonThe People in the Castle(2016)
- #44AmazonThe Gift Giving(2016)
- #1AmazonThe Bodigulpa (By: Jenny Nimmo)(2001)
- #2AmazonStealaway (By: K.M. Peyton)(2001)
- #3AmazonHairy Bill (By: Susan Price)(2002)
- #4AmazonThe Scream(2002)
- #5AmazonLong Lost (By: Jan Mark)(2002)
- #6AmazonWicked Chickens (By: Vivian French)(2003)
- #7AmazonYou Have Ghost Mail (By: Terence Blacker)(2003)
- #8AmazonGoodbye, Tommy Blue (By: Adèle Geras)(2003)
- #9AmazonThe Beast of Crowsfoot Cottage (By: Jeanne Willis)(2003)
- #10AmazonPhantom Fun (By: Jan Burchett,Sara Vogler)(2004)
- #1AmazonThe Angel Inn(1863)
- #2AmazonThe Kingdom and the Cave(1960)
- #3AmazonThe Fortune Hunters(1965)
- #4AmazonBeware of the Bouquet / Trouble with Product X(1966)
- #5AmazonDark Interval / Hate Begins at Home(1967)
- #6AmazonNight Fall(1969)
- #7AmazonThe Embroidered Sunset(1970)
- #8AmazonA Cluster of Separate Sparks / The Butterfly Picnic(1972)
- #9AmazonDied on a Rainy Sunday(1972)
- #10AmazonThe Silence of Herondale(1973)
- #11AmazonMidnight Is a Place(1974)
- #12AmazonVoices in an Empty House(1975)
- #13AmazonCastle Barebane(1976)
- #14AmazonLast Movement(1977)
- #15AmazonThe Five-Minute Marriage(1977)
- #16AmazonMice and Mendelson(1978)
- #17AmazonThe Shadow Guests(1980)
- #18AmazonThe Kitchen Warriors(1983)
- #19AmazonDeception / If I Were You(1987)
- #20AmazonThe Erl King's Daughter(1988)
- #21AmazonBlackground(1989)
- #22AmazonThe Haunting of Lamb House(1991)
- #23AmazonThe Cockatrice Boys(1993)
- #24AmazonThe Midnight Moropus(1993)
- #25AmazonMorningquest(1993)
- #26AmazonThe Jewel Seed(1996)
- #27AmazonA Fit of Shivers(1990)
- #28AmazonThe Shoemaker's Boy(1991)
- #1AmazonThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase(1962)
- #2AmazonBlack Hearts in Battersea(1964)
- #3AmazonNightbirds on Nantucket(1966)
- #4AmazonThe Whispering Mountain(1968)
- #5AmazonThe Cuckoo Tree(1971)
- #6AmazonThe Stolen Lake(1981)
- #7AmazonDido and Pa(1986)
- #8AmazonIs Underground(1992)
- #9AmazonCold Shoulder Road(1995)
- #10AmazonLimbo Lodge / Dangerous Games(1998)
- #11AmazonMidwinter Nightingale(2003)
- #12AmazonThe Witch of Clatteringshaws(2005)
- #1AmazonA Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Henry Slesar,Annie Reed,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Mary Turzillo)(2021)
- #1AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition(2010)
- #2AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition(2011)
- #3AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition(2012)
- #4AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition(2013)
- #5AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition(2014)
- #6AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition(2015)
- #7AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition(2016)
- #8AmazonThe Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition(2017)
- #9AmazonThe Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition(2018)
- #10AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition(2020)
- #11AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1(2020)
- #12AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2(2021)
- #13AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3(2022)
- #14AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4(2023)
- #15AmazonThe Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5(2024)
- #16AmazonThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 5(2024)
About Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken is a celebrated English writer, renowned for her captivating works in wild fantasy, Gothic novels, and short stories. Recognized for her significant contributions to Children's Literature, she was awarded the MBE. Born into a family of writers, including her father Conrad Aiken, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and her sister Jane Aiken Hodge, Aiken's writing career began with stints at the United Nations Information Office and as an editor and freelance writer for Argosy magazine. She later transitioned to writing full-time, producing a range of children's books and thrillers, earning her the Guardian Award (1969) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972). Her iconic series, "The Wolves Chronicles," transports readers to an alternate historical Britain, while her Arabel and Mortimer series, illustrated by Quentin Blake, has delighted audiences in various forms of media.
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