47+ of Your Favorite Books About Dragons
This week’s Riot Rec is sponsored by Seraphina by Rachel Hartman.
Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Dragons can fold themselves into human shape, which enables them to lend their rational, mathematical minds to scholars and teachers, and attend court as ambassadors. Seraphina Dombegh, an unusually gifted musician, is drawn into an investigation with the captain of the Queen’s Guard and the crown prince, when a member of the royal family is murdered in suspiciously draconian fashion. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect the deadly secret behind her musical talent.
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You don’t have to be the Mother of Dragons to appreciate a good tale about fire-breathing creatures the size of houses. We asked you for your favorite books about dragons, and you answered. From high fantasy to picture books, here are over 47 of your favorite dragon stories:
The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit
The Chronicles of Elantra series by Michelle Sagara
The Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
The Deathgate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragon Bone by Patricia Briggs
Dragon Keeper series by Carole Wilkinson
Dragon Kin series by G. A. Aiken
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George
The Dragoneye series by Alison Goodman
The Dragonic Voyages by Katherine A Smith
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly
Dragonlance series by Margaret Weiss
Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
The Dragonstone by Dennis L. McKiernan
Dragonworld by Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves, illustrated by Joseph Zucker
Drakon series by Shana Abe
Earthsea series by Ursula K. LeGuin
Elder Races series by Thea Harrison
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede
Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like by Jay Williams and Mercer Mayer
Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobbs
Fire’s Astonishment by Geraldine McCaughrean
Firelight series by Sophie Jordan
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
The Last Dragon Slayer by Jasper Fforde
The Magic Thief: Found and The Magic Thief: Home by Sarah Prineass
Malaxan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
My Father’s Dragon series by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Naamah’s Kiss by Jacqueline Carey
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey
The Rain Wilds Chronicles by Robin Hobb
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
The Story of Owen by EK Johnston
Talon by Julie Kagawa
Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy
Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Truth series by Dawn Cook
The Voices of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn
Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
