my 100% unbiased ranking of the DWJ books I’ve read so far

🍀 = a reread is in order

S TIER (changed my life) ⚫️Eight Days of Luke (1975) 🍀🔥 THE Norse mythology book of all time

⚫️Homeward Bounders (1981) ♟️ genuinely blew my mind

⚫️Howl’s Moving Castle (1986) 🌈 possibly the most perfect book ever

⚫️The Lives of Christopher Chant (1988) 🏏 guys I could write a thesis on the development of selfhood as shown in this book

⚫️The Time of the Ghost (1981) 🍀👻 free her

A TIER (literature!) ⚫️Dogsbody (1975) 🌌 he’s a dog but also a star so you know it’s peak

⚫️Year of the Griffin (2000) 🍀🪄 they go to magic college guys

B TIER (good) ⚫️Conrad’s Fate (2005) 🍽️ butlery and fraud! My two favorite things

⚫️Dark Lord of Derkhelm (1998) 🦅 funny dystopias rise up

⚫️ A Tale of Time City (1987) 🔑 so much time travel

⚫️The Pinhoe Egg (2006) 🍀🥚 baby dragon.

⚫️Witch Week (1982) 🕯️ it hurts to get burned 😡

⚫️ Charmed Life (1977) 🐈‍⬛ (but higher if rated on nostalgia 😭)

⚫️Power of Three (1976) 🌻 metaphorically speaking, insane

C TIER (mixed bag) ⚫️House of Many Ways (2008) 📚 fell off at the end ngl

⚫️The Magicians of Caprona (1980) 🍀🎻 I like can’t remember this?

⚫️Castle in the Air (1990) 🍀🧞‍♂️ umm kind of scared to reread

D TIER (unfortunately, no) ⚫️Enchanted Glass (2010) 🏡 it’s 2010 I know we can be woker than this!

⚫️Fire and Hemlock (1984) 📝I’m sorry the writing is beautiful but I just can’t

Hope to start Dalemark Quartet soon!! I’m kind of hyped to start a new DWJ series