Looking for books with dragon protagonists
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1FFortuna
Hello all! I'm looking for suggestions of books with dragon protagonists. I'm more interested in dragon-dragon interaction than dragons and their riders or whatever, although I don't mind those... I'd especially be interested in books that have ONLY dragons and no humans whatsoever. The dragons can be "good" or "evil" or neither in particular, really the fact that the dragon is the main focus is the only thing I'm looking for. Thanks in advance!
Crossposted to Book Talk.
Crossposted to Book Talk.
2amberwitch
Jo Walton has a dragons only novel in a victorian setting named Tooth and claw.
Dragonhaven by Robin Mckinley is an urban fantasy about a human raising an orphaned dragon and reintroducing her to dragons - it has a very obvious narrator, which may annoy some.
Dragonhaven by Robin Mckinley is an urban fantasy about a human raising an orphaned dragon and reintroducing her to dragons - it has a very obvious narrator, which may annoy some.
3Morphidae
Elvenbane by Lackey/Norton has an intelligent dragon society - a girl gets raised by dragons.
4majkia
The Throne of Jade particularly focuses on dragon protagonists. But really all the Temeraire books feature some of it. The first one not so much but all the rest do.
5spoiledfornothing
Mercedes Lackey has a dragon series too - alta, joust, Sanctuary, Aerie. involves dragons and their riders.
anne mccaffery's pern books have a lot of stories about dragons and their riders. this is either fantasy or science fiction, take your pick.
Robert Asprin has two dragon books: Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild. This is urban fantasy, with a college grad and his sister who don't know they are dragons and just coming into their dragoness.
Dragon's Ring by Dave Freer. a different world where dragons rule and humans are prey.
Destiny Kills by Keri Arthur is urban fantasy about dragons, some of them captured and experimented on by human scientists.
Oh, Christopher Paolini also a dragon trilogy. forgot their names, but it was made into a movie.
anne mccaffery's pern books have a lot of stories about dragons and their riders. this is either fantasy or science fiction, take your pick.
Robert Asprin has two dragon books: Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild. This is urban fantasy, with a college grad and his sister who don't know they are dragons and just coming into their dragoness.
Dragon's Ring by Dave Freer. a different world where dragons rule and humans are prey.
Destiny Kills by Keri Arthur is urban fantasy about dragons, some of them captured and experimented on by human scientists.
Oh, Christopher Paolini also a dragon trilogy. forgot their names, but it was made into a movie.
6C4RO
Irene Radford wrote all the Dragon Nimbus books. There are a fair few people in them though so not exactly what you're looking for.
E E Knight wrote 4 books now that are more what you want as it is heavily on the dragon interactions. Dragon Champion is the first of them.
I agree with other posters on the Naomi Novik recommendation.
Cheers
E E Knight wrote 4 books now that are more what you want as it is heavily on the dragon interactions. Dragon Champion is the first of them.
I agree with other posters on the Naomi Novik recommendation.
Cheers
8Emidawg
Have you read the Bazil Broketail series? There are humans in it but Dragons feature prominently in them, they arent the winged firebreathing type though.
9Emily1
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix are a YA/Romance series of books regarding dragons that can shapechange into humans.
10JannyWurts
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy
This is definitely humans related to a dragon, but the presentation of the dragon is extremely original - possibly not exactly the type of book you are looking for, but it's a gem of a story nonetheless.
This is definitely humans related to a dragon, but the presentation of the dragon is extremely original - possibly not exactly the type of book you are looking for, but it's a gem of a story nonetheless.
11d.r.halliwell
The Dragon and the George - sort of
13Morphidae
I just read Dealing with Dragons and really enjoyed it a lot.
14dragonsign
Temeraire series is great! Wish she would write more!
15KimarieBee
#14 Yay.......Tongues of Serpents is due for release on 13th July, 2010..... very excited as this one is set in Australia!!
18humouress
I was going to suggest The Dragon Knight by Gordon R. Dickson, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede or Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green, if that helps.
20TimSharrock
Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt. Chinese dragons and weather forcasters...
21fjhansen
I would definitely echo E.E. Knight's Age of Fire books. And, Novik's Temeraire series.
If you don't mind science fiction elements, I released a book recently, Draconia: Forging Trust, about a world inhabited by dragons. One of the main characters is a young dragon.
If you don't mind science fiction elements, I released a book recently, Draconia: Forging Trust, about a world inhabited by dragons. One of the main characters is a young dragon.
22viciouslittlething
Kim Harrison writing as Dawn Cook - First Truth, Hidden Truth,Forgotten Truth & Lost Truth have an element of dragon.
I cringe suggesting this as it may or may not be to your taste, it wasn't to mine. Katie MacAlister's Aisling Gray Guardian Series You Slay Me, Fire Me Up, Light My Fire 7 Holy Smokes. More paranormal romance.
I cringe suggesting this as it may or may not be to your taste, it wasn't to mine. Katie MacAlister's Aisling Gray Guardian Series You Slay Me, Fire Me Up, Light My Fire 7 Holy Smokes. More paranormal romance.
23spoiledfornothing
They Gray Guardian books are paranormal romance - I like them well enough.
24bookstothesky
Well, it's a bit of a stretch, but I'll mention Alan Dean Foster's Flinx books featuring his Alaspin mini-drag, Pip.
25bookstothesky
Also, if memory serves, Daniel Hood has a trilogy of books featuring a dragon familiar; the first book is Fanuilh.
26bookstothesky
One that may be more on point, though I've yet to read the books, is relatively new UK author Stephen Deas' series starting with The Adamantine Palace. The cover blurb from Brent Weeks says the dragons are "inscrutable, beautiful, magical, unstoppable."
27DragonFreak
There is the Dragon Keeper series written by Carole Wilkinson featuring Dragon's Dawn, Dragon Keeper, Garden of the purple dragon, and Dragon moon. It has human characters in it a lot. They are chinese dragons and some people might consider that bad, but it is a quick series to read. But it's different than most dragon books, very different.
28jade5689
there is ,Wings of Fire, series which is written by ,Tui.T.Sutherland,
There is one book which has human protagonists but all the others has dragons.
Some of the dragons even have powers
There is one book which has human protagonists but all the others has dragons.
Some of the dragons even have powers
29Morphidae
It has risen from the dead! Zombie-fied!
(Just teasing. Don't know if you noticed but the last post was in 2010.)
(Just teasing. Don't know if you noticed but the last post was in 2010.)
30Crypto-Willobie
Michael Swanwick's World of the Iron Dragon series.
31Sakerfalcon
>29 Morphidae: Zombie dragons! That would be a great premise for a book!
32humouress
>31 Sakerfalcon: Hmm ... that rings a bell ...
33rshart3
>32 humouress: A nonprofit fundraising drive I'm part of has a copywriter who came up 3 or 4 years ago with a whole brochure based on the phrase "Winter is coming". We all assumed she was building on the popularity of GOT. It turned out she'd never read or watched it, and had no idea what we were talking about....
34Morphidae
>31 Sakerfalcon: >32 humouress: Not a premise for a book but there is a zombie (baby) dragon in Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs.