Watership Down, Tales From Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, Shardik, Maia, Traveller, The Iron Wolf & Other Stories, and The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. There aren’t too many non-series writers that I’ve read more books by.
If I put the DVD of Watership Down in tonight, I’ll be almost certain to bawl.
So sorry to hear that Mr. Adams has stopped running.
But I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I thought he’d died long ago – as in decades ago.
This is the first I’ve noticed this thread. But by pure coincidence, at just about the same time that the OP was posted, I was cussing in Lapine.
My mom and I were at a live animal exhibit, looking at some foxes. And whew, were they ever embleer!
After reading Watership Down, I never looked at rabbits the same. RIP Mr. Adams.
You only really need the final minutes.
I first read Watership Down in 7th grade English class. We had to pick a novel off a list we were provided with no other information given, and the book would be ordered for us.
Having seen Gray Lady Down the year before, I was sure this novel had something to do with a sinking ship. Imagine my surprise when I was handed a thick novel with a rabbit on the cover!
Anyway, I had no choice but to read it, and it turned out to be one of my favorite books of all time. RIP, Mr. Adams.
P.S. I liked Watership Down so much, that I read Maia a few years later. Quite a different story, to say the least! 
I’m reminded once again that I never did get around to reading Watership Down. Now that I’m 40 maybe it’s time.
Go for it. I didn’t read *To Kill a Mockingbird *until a few years ago.
I LOVED Watership Down, but was disappointed with every other Adams book I’ve read. Some of Plague Dogs was good, but overall it was disappointing. I had to force my way through Shardik. I never even tried Girl on a Swing. or Tales from Watership Down.
Nevertheless, one really great book is still an impressive achievement. I’ve re-read it numerous times. It also made a helluva movie.
I soaked up books like a sponge from a very young age, and Watership Down was one of the books that I loved so much it embedded itself into my psyche. I was always an oversensitive child who loved animals more than people so I really identified with the rabbits. Loved it so much that it’s one of my all time favorite books, after 50+ years of reading thousands of titles in all different genres.
I need to read it again. It’s been a while.
I think that Plague Dogs could have been good, if it hadn’t been quite so heavy-handed. Yeah, yeah, we get it: Animal experimentation is bad. We got it the first 17 times you hit us over the head with a sledgehammer, too.
When Watership Down was newly published, I went to my local bookshop in the UK in search of a copy; the young assistant hadn’t heard of the book, and headed at first to the non-fiction ships-and-the-sea section ! (Understandable – she was very young, and it seemed clear that books were her job, not her passion.)
I also love Watership Down – reckoning it a work of genius – otherwise, I’ve found Adams’s novels to vary IMO widely over the spectrum between definitely readable, and beyond-awful. I much liked The Girl in a Swing – for me, highly gripping / moving / creepy; and Maia. I’m with Chronos on The Plague Dogs, and feel likewise about Shardik: both unsubtly earnest / preachy to the point of being almost unbearable. (Maia is set in the same fictional “universe” as Shardik, but is very different stuff – enjoyably picaresque / raunchy telling of low-life roguery not involving hideous evil.) And like LHoD, I thought Tales from Watership Down feeble.
Adams’s autobiography of the first three decades or so of his life, The Day Gone By (AFAIK he published no further autobiography) I found fascinating, especially about the World War 2 years, in which he served in the British Army’s Royal Army Service Corps (“in the rear with the gear”). He was never in direct harm’s way in WW2; but served initially in the UK, then in the Middle East and subsequently Far East – recounted very interestingly.
Eh, never mind. Let’s just say +1 to the above :).
RIP Mr. Adams and thanks for your truly great first book. I treasure it still.
I loved the book but have never seen the movie; I guess it’s worth finding, RIP to a brilliant story teller 