This afternoon on Twitter I asked: What’s your favorite book that prominently features a dragon. Either as a shifter, character, etc. Keyword: prominent
I have absolutely no reason for asking other than general curiousity. I was browsing Amazon (avoiding cleaning my closet, like I’m supposed to be doing on Vacation Day Two) and something caught my eye. I can’t even remember what, now, but it got me to thinking about dragon books.
So I asked the question. I purposely didn’t say romance, fantasy, YA. It could be any genre, I was just looking for people’s favorites. Because I fail at Twitter today, I forgot to hashtag the question, so I gathered all of the responses so far and am posting them here. My apologies if I missed any! If you have favorites, you’re welcome to post them in the comments here or add them to Twitter, hashtag #DragonBook.
(note: When a series is mentioned, I’ve tried to link to book one in the series/trilogy, in the Kindle format)
The top 5 mentions so far:
Anne McAffrey’s Pern series
The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe
Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison
Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series
The Aisling Grey series by Katie MacAlister
(side note: I’ve read all of these except Anne McAffrey and I bought her first one, Dragonflight, earlier this week)
Books, series or authors that got multiple mentions:
Eileen Wilks‘ World of the Lupi books
Shelly Laurenston/GA Aiken (one author, two pseudonyms)
Dragon Heat and The Black Dragon by Allyson James
Dragonlance series by Weis and Hickman
Hurog duology by Patricia Briggs
Inheritance trilogy by Christopher Paolini
The Hobbit (by some random dude)
Tea with the Black Dragon by RA McAvoy
Patricia C Wrede’s Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Ursula K. LeGuin’s Tehanu and The Other Wind
Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb
Dragon Prince (and subsequent books) by Melanie Rawn
Firelight by Sophie Jordan (YA)
Barbara Hambly Winterlands series
And books recommended (very enthusiastically) by only one response:
The Dragons of Fyre by Janet Lane Walters
Tamora Pierce, Immortals quartet (YA)
Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward
The Dragon and the George by Gordon Dickson
Master of Dragons by Angela Knight
Eternity and a Day by Aline Hunter
Dragons of Babel by Michael Swanwick (YA)
A Book of Dragons, anthology
Deborah Cooke, Dragonfire series
Alison Goodman, Eon series (YA)
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller Liaden Universe series where family is known as Tree and Dragon
Minerva Wakes by Holly Lisle
Song in the Silence by Elizabeth Kerner (YA)
Jane Yolen’s Pit Dragon Trilogy (children’s: Brianna used to love these books. I loved reading them to her!)
A Dragon’s Awakening by Aya Knight
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
