Howl's Moving Castle
core novel 1986 Howl's Moving Castle
Record
| First published | 1986 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.28 (464,411 ratings, collected 2026-08-07) |
| Page count | 448 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780064410342 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Where it sits
- Universe: Howl's Moving Castle
- Series: Howl's Moving Castle core; position 1 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Awards (verified)
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (Fiction (Honor Book)), 1986: honor; Corrected from a widely-repeated secondary-source 'win' claim -- the awarding body's own history page lists it as a Fiction Honor Book, not the category winner (In Summer Light by Zibby Oneal won).
Notes
- From the series record (Howl's Moving Castle): Diana Wynne Jones's own 'Castle'/'World of Howl' trilogy, sharing the kingdom of Ingary and recurring characters (Howl, Sophie, Calcifer, Wizard Suliman) across all 3 books, though each has a largely independent plot and protagonist. Confirmed a SEPARATE continuity from Jones's Chrestomanci series (a different multiverse-hopping premise with no shared characters, setting, or crossover) -- not conflated per this admission's own scope check.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Howl's Moving Castle: position 1 of 3: next Castle in the Air (1990)
Sources
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