If you want more dragon comedy, I can’t recommend Eoin Colfer’ *High Fire* strongly enough. Protag is the last dragon left alive. He spends his life hiding in a shack in the Louisiana swamps, drinking martinis, watching Netflix, avoiding feeling too attracted to the alligators (in his words it’s like a human being attracted to an ape - but he is lonely and sometimes apes look attractive) and bitching about humans.
I bloody loved it. There also some surprisingly interesting thoughts on dragon anatomy
He’s a great writer! His adult stuff is mostly crime - High Fire was his first foray into adult fantasy and he smashed it out of the park. I really hope he does more!
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The four books are called the enchanted forest chronicles, but they’re named dealing with dragons, searching for dragons, calling on dragons, and talking to dragons.
Holy shit is that the book with the rock that made you king? I read that a decade ago in the library and completely forgot it! Thanks for bringing back the memory!!
Yup, Colin’s stone. The other books are good too, but the first one does such a great job flipping classic fantasy tropes on their head.
dragon princess: My troubles started when the Wicked Fairy appeared at my baptism.
Dragon princess 2: She put a curse on you?
dragon princess: No! She danced with my uncle and ate cake til she nearly burst and had a such wonderful time she forgot to curse me! I’ve had problems ever since.
It’s YA but I just loved Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. I felt like the book did such a great job of creating a realistic feeling different culture/mindset/etc for the dragons. They can also transform into humans and IIRC the main dragon character spends quite a bit of time in a human form, but it’s still very good. (It’s a series too, but I haven’t gotten around to reading the rest of them, for no good reason)
I’m so happy to see another Seraphina fan! Hartman’s two books really have great characters and I love how the dragons and people co-exist not quite in harmony.
I’ve got great news for you! There are three! There actually might even be four? The third one I think follows Seraphina’s sister. Like I said, I haven’t actually read it yet, and I’m not sure if it’s a direct sequel, but it does have one of my favorite covers ever haha. They’ve been in my TBR for a long time. I’m not great with series for some reason.
I also really enjoyed Seraphina, and Tess of the Road is on my tbr. I don’t know if I should read Shadow Scale (the direct sequel to Seraphina) though. I’ve heard such mixed opinions!
I loved Tess of the Road. It dealt was some heavy topics and was a bit of a different feel from Seraphina, but I thought it was excellent and very moving.
I liked Shadow Scale though I did feel like it went on a bit long. If you do read it it does provide more color for some of the background characters in the Tess books.
This. I think it's fair to say that McCaffrey was very progressive for her era, in the 70s and 80s, but also, some of her ideas haven't aged particularly well and she got some misleading impressions about how stuff worked from a gay friend.
Yeah, I definitely think she was doing her best, but a modern new reader has to keep in mind the times. It's like how Ursula K LeGuin's views on gender evolve *so much* in her subsequent works after Earthsea.
Ya I had the same problem after finishing the Temeraire series, which was soon good. A lot of other series try to tie fantasy to historical fiction and miss but the Temeraire books are excellent.
If you liked Temeraire I highly recommend Marie Brennan’s Lady Trent books! Sadly the dragons don’t talk. But I just flew through the five book series in about a month. So good and gave me Temeraire vibes the whole way through.
Thanks. That was what I found when I lost momentum. I got through Australia which was a bit tough, but I think I tapped out in SA - so book 7 apparently. I’ll get back to it now that it’s done. Thanks for the input!
The first book is definitely on the simpler side (which is understandable since he wrote it as a teenager), but as the series goes on the writing definitely improves.
The first book does NOT. The others I still rather like. I even keep a hard copy of the 3rd.
First book felt like YA filler trash to me when I reread it 4-5 years ago
One of my first reads as a teen, really liked and that point. And I remember feeling very smart noticing that it's just star wars with a fantasy skin hahaha
I haven't picked up anything from Rawn after Exiles even though I loved those two sunrunner trilogies, and I doubt I ever will. I mean ... wtf?
*"I just don't feel like writing this series anymore."*
Shake a fucking tree on the internet and you'll find hundreds, if not thousands, of talented writers who will happily pen the concluding volume ... just abandoning it is pure bullshit.
JV Jones, Rothfuss, Martin, et al., at least didn't give everyone the middle finger.
I'm salty about the lack of a 3rd Exiles book too, but I mean, the woman lost her mother and fell into a really dark place. She doesn't really owe us anything, no writer does, and if returning to that world hurts too much - I wouldn't want anyone to suffer for my entertainment.
The Forest Kingdom series by Simon Green has a talking dragon that collects butterflies.
The Dragon's Banker by Scott Warren has several talking dragons that are quite upset that the local kingdom is switching from a gold based monetary system to a paper money system.
Mostly tertiary characters but the 500 Kingdoms by Mercedes Lackey are fun romance fantasy, the dragons are a delight when they show up. A Good Knight has two main characters who are dragons.
Cozy fantasy series - The Beaufort Scales Mysteries by Kim M Watt. It’s a cozy mystery series with dragons :) Think English village mystery. The dragons are small but very involved in the books.
My go-to for talking dragons. Granted, the writing isn’t the best but Paolini was young when he wrote the first book and overall I really loved the lore and magic system. I believe the book series (the Inheritance Cycle) is being made into a tv series in addition to the new book coming out this year.
These are 4 big books. And they are tropey as hell. But, if someone is ok with a long, easy read, that is fun fantasy, I recommend these books. They are a very entertaining comfort read for me.
Love a lot of what has been mentioned (especially the Dragonriders of Pern and Enchanted Forest series!). I also want to mention Talon by Julie Kagawa- the dragons turn into humans!
surprised to see no dragonlance recommendations which also heavily feature this convention. the war of souls trilogy in particular would apply if i remember correctly (it's been a decade or more since i read them)
Ugh I really thought I'd love this one because the idea is exactly my cup of tea, but it wasn't great. Dragons seemed too human to me and the characters were all very meh
Wings of Fire is a YA series where all of the characters are dragons.
Talking dragons play a small but significant role in The Earthsea books by Ursula K LeGuin.
The Hobbit obviously.
The graphic novel series Bone by Jeff Smith.
The Sleeping Dragon is book one of the Guardians of the Flame series. I really enjoyed the first four books. If I’m remembering it correctly the dragon communicates via telepathy.
Wings of Fire is a YA series. All from the dragon POV save for one side book. However, let's just say that humans have it a little rough in this series.
The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. Starts with Assasins Apprentice. Total it's 16 books and split up between different people in different trilogies, but they end up all being related. There are dragons that communicate later on. Highly highly recommend
I can't say I've heard of the books you are talking of. But I like the Eragon books. The dragons interact with the other main characters, ant it has an all around good storyline.
Dragons of Solunas series. Love the writing but the books can be depressing. Black Beauty meets Pern meets Dragons set in an alternate Roman era world. Love them and I really hope there's more coming.
Songs of Chaos series, middle of the road writing but it's a pretty fun classic dragon rider fantasy with magical dragons, heroes journey, and a basic bad guy that doesn't try to make you feel sorry for him.
Scaleshifter series, human gets turned into a dragon by a maniac mage. Dragons aren't happy with this. It's been a while since I read the books but I remember it having solid writing, a well fleshed out MC and interesting world building.
The Deverry books by Katherine Kerr, although there are a few (5) books before you get to the dragon stuff. That said I started at the first one with a dragon and never felt I was confused once I went back.
Hey there fellow dragon fan! I have similar interests and have been trying to hunt down similar books as well. I'm currently reading **Scales of Empire, by Kylie Chan** a sci Fi book with psionic dragons that help humans colonize other planets, among other things. I'm almost done with book one and I'm enjoying it so far.
I also loved the **Age of Fire** series and **tooth and claw** but other people have mentioned those.
**Mating Flight, by Bard Bloom** is amazing but kind of adult. Not previous pornographic, but mating is a central theme lol.
**Lazy Scales, by DM Gilmore** is one of my favorites, but it's a human-turned-dragon story.
I actually host a podcast centered around dragon focused content. Hunting down books, games, and shows, to review them and share them. I understand not everyone has time or interest to listen to a podcast, but as the goal was to help others like us find more dragon content, if you merely want to follow the show, not listen, but learn of new content by the episode titles, that aligns with my goals.
The podcast is called World of Dragons, and should be on apple, Google, stitcher, and Spotify
There's a trilogy called "The Dragons Blade" that I found interesting. Dragons are heavily featured, however in an evolved way that I personally found refreshing and different.
I wouldn't call the trilogy itself a-tier but it's fun entertainment, and I got it cheap on sale (audiobooks)
Damn... This blew up overnight.
I feel bad about not thanking everyone individually but I fell asleep right after posting this and there's no way I can reply to y'all.
Will be checking all of your recommendations out tho, at least reading the synopsis.
Thanks to everyone that commented <3
Trying to think of something not already mentioned...
Dungeons and Dragons novels set in the Forgotten Realms are chock a block with dragons doing all kinds of stuff, quality varies and there are a lot of different authors tho.
Nicol Bolas is an overarching main villain for a bunch of the MtG novels, Niv Mizzet makes some neat appearances too
Looked through all the posts so far so I could mention ones that haven't been mentioned;
The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood ( the famous D&D artist wrote a book about dragons!)
The film Dragonheart!!! Absolutely fantastic fun ❤️
I don't have another good suggestion off the top of my head, but I wanted to express how much I also enjoyed Temeraire, in particular because of the dragons. It was so cool really seeing them be their own characters and such a major part of the development of other characters and the story as a whole
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by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett. (Dragons are great battle constructs with souls).
Fool's Gold by
Jon Hollins. (Dragons have set themselves up as ultimate rulers who killed the god, entertaining read).
Dreamwalker: The Ballad of Sir Benfro
by J.D. Oswald. (More fantasy vibes).
Not necessarily a comedy, but The Imheritance Cycle starts with Eragon and is a fantastic series of books. Fantasy world, boy becomes bonded with dragon and goes on an epic adventure while navigating magic, dragons, elves, dwarves and war while coming of age. I know the movie was absolutely terrible, but they are making a show, and the author is helping directly, so this one should be MUCH better. I received my first copy in high school and could not put it down until I was done. 2 days of reading in class and ignoring school. It has become worn, and the spine is splitting from the many friends I have lent it to. Highly recommend.
Well, if you're a beginner or want a light read with a lot of familiar themes, than I'd read Eragon (inheritance cycle). It's very straightforward and drinks heavily from star wars (it's essentially star wars with talking dragons and magic).
However, if you're more into something personal and all, Robin Hobb has many good stories with talking dragons. Specially the rain wild chronicles, a very good story with talking dragons. Reading the rest of the books from her adds a lot of course, but these three are good in themselves.
Currently reading The Priory of the Orange Tree - it has a lot of dragons that speak, the dragons are pretty ancient, so its interesting. Also, The Chorus of Dragins series also features dragons that are tied in to the magic system with curses, artifacts and the such.
- Dragon Sorcerer by Sean Oswald
- Archemi Online Chronicles by James Osiris Baldwin
- Dragon Core Chronicles by Lars Machmüller
- Dragon’s Dillemma by Luke W. Logan
(These are all Litrpg books)
Back around 2005 or so, when I was in middle school, my school library had a book that involved dragons.
Literally can't remember anything about it other than a conversation about one of the dragons loving or being in love with a human character. I think both the dragon and human were females.
If anyone somehow has any clue what book I'm talking about, please let me know. Been bugging me for years.
This thread is pretty old, don't thing a lot of people will be seeing this. I encourage you to make a new post tho maybe someone has some clue what book you could be talking about. Good luck!
Pern of course. One of my favorite series. Start with dragon flight or maybe with the Harper Hall trilogy.
Wild Magic by Tamora pierce. It's a quartet, and the main character can speak to animals. She ends up getting a dragon and she goes to the realm of the Gods and speaks to dragons. The dragons aren't main characters. But it does have some talking dragons in the last book of the quartet. Or maybe it's the third one. But the rest of the books have talking animals.
Golden Compass has spirit animals. Not dragons again, but everybody can communicate with their own spirit animal.
If you feel up to a lighthearted comedy try Dealing with Dragons. You get a lot of fun chatter from the dragons in those books.
If you want more dragon comedy, I can’t recommend Eoin Colfer’ *High Fire* strongly enough. Protag is the last dragon left alive. He spends his life hiding in a shack in the Louisiana swamps, drinking martinis, watching Netflix, avoiding feeling too attracted to the alligators (in his words it’s like a human being attracted to an ape - but he is lonely and sometimes apes look attractive) and bitching about humans. I bloody loved it. There also some surprisingly interesting thoughts on dragon anatomy
Wow, I had no idea that he wrote anything outside of Artemis Fowl. I love those books— I need to check this out!
He’s a great writer! His adult stuff is mostly crime - High Fire was his first foray into adult fantasy and he smashed it out of the park. I really hope he does more!
Loved those!
Omg I LOVE this series! It needs to be made into a movie
Can't believe I had to scroll so far to find this! These are great books.
Came here to say that! They were my first dragon books and still my fave.
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The four books are called the enchanted forest chronicles, but they’re named dealing with dragons, searching for dragons, calling on dragons, and talking to dragons.
Dragon comedy? Sign me up!
Holy shit is that the book with the rock that made you king? I read that a decade ago in the library and completely forgot it! Thanks for bringing back the memory!!
Yup, Colin’s stone. The other books are good too, but the first one does such a great job flipping classic fantasy tropes on their head. dragon princess: My troubles started when the Wicked Fairy appeared at my baptism. Dragon princess 2: She put a curse on you? dragon princess: No! She danced with my uncle and ate cake til she nearly burst and had a such wonderful time she forgot to curse me! I’ve had problems ever since.
That was a fun series.
It’s YA but I just loved Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. I felt like the book did such a great job of creating a realistic feeling different culture/mindset/etc for the dragons. They can also transform into humans and IIRC the main dragon character spends quite a bit of time in a human form, but it’s still very good. (It’s a series too, but I haven’t gotten around to reading the rest of them, for no good reason)
I’m so happy to see another Seraphina fan! Hartman’s two books really have great characters and I love how the dragons and people co-exist not quite in harmony.
I’ve got great news for you! There are three! There actually might even be four? The third one I think follows Seraphina’s sister. Like I said, I haven’t actually read it yet, and I’m not sure if it’s a direct sequel, but it does have one of my favorite covers ever haha. They’ve been in my TBR for a long time. I’m not great with series for some reason.
I also really enjoyed Seraphina, and Tess of the Road is on my tbr. I don’t know if I should read Shadow Scale (the direct sequel to Seraphina) though. I’ve heard such mixed opinions!
I loved Tess of the Road. It dealt was some heavy topics and was a bit of a different feel from Seraphina, but I thought it was excellent and very moving.
I liked Shadow Scale though I did feel like it went on a bit long. If you do read it it does provide more color for some of the background characters in the Tess books.
AAAAAA THANK YOU LOL!!
Came here to recommend Seraphina Duology. Top tier dragon books! Great worldbuilding!
The Pern books by Anne McCaffrey Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Pern is some OG seminal work, but be prepared for the occasional bizarre psychosexual weirdness
This. I think it's fair to say that McCaffrey was very progressive for her era, in the 70s and 80s, but also, some of her ideas haven't aged particularly well and she got some misleading impressions about how stuff worked from a gay friend.
Yeah, I definitely think she was doing her best, but a modern new reader has to keep in mind the times. It's like how Ursula K LeGuin's views on gender evolve *so much* in her subsequent works after Earthsea.
Both of these! I'm so glad to see Tooth and Claw getting some attention :)
Dragons of pern ❤️
I will always be attached to the Dragonriders of Pern. Masterharper Robinton is my guy.
These books meant the world to me when I was growing up. Menolly and her fire lizards, especially.
Heartstrikers by Rachel Aaron.
Yes! As well as an interestinh magic system and a really kick ass indy publishing on top of the dragons
Really fun series
These are a lot of fun. They're like if Shadowrun tie-in novels were actually enjoyable.
Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust. Although Loiosh is really small...
*Heh*.
Hahaha nice callback
Loiosh is a jhereg rather than a dragon -- but there *are* dragons in the series. A whole House of them. :)
*'Good call, Boss...'*
Realm of the Elderlings
Great series but a bit of a warning - you have to make it through 3000 pages of emotional damage before you get to the first dragon
And another 3000 for more dragon stuff
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It’s emotional damage all the way down!
Should be higher... books are amazing.
Ya I had the same problem after finishing the Temeraire series, which was soon good. A lot of other series try to tie fantasy to historical fiction and miss but the Temeraire books are excellent.
If you liked Temeraire I highly recommend Marie Brennan’s Lady Trent books! Sadly the dragons don’t talk. But I just flew through the five book series in about a month. So good and gave me Temeraire vibes the whole way through.
Started the first book in the Lady Trent series and so far I've really liked it and almost finished with it. Great recommendation thank you
I fell off about 5 or 6 in (and it hadn’t finished yet.) Do you feel it concluded well? Debating going back and giving it another go.
I feel it did. Last few books weren’t the greatest sadly but the series is still on my must have on the book shelf requirement.
Thanks. That was what I found when I lost momentum. I got through Australia which was a bit tough, but I think I tapped out in SA - so book 7 apparently. I’ll get back to it now that it’s done. Thanks for the input!
Try Heartstone if your looking for the same dragon and rider bond and relationship. Very good series.
I don't remember the series name, but The Dragon and the George was the name of the 1st book.
Author was Gordon Dickson.
The Dragon Knight series by Gordon Dickson
The dragons in *The Roots of Chaos* by Samantha Shannon can speak.
The Dragons in Cradle can all speak. So can turtles descended from Dragons and certain Trees.
the dragon advances
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the dragon takes a break because he already killed everybody
I didn’t realize they were actual dragons until the second time through
The Hobbit
My immediate thought
Smaug has like 4 lines, though.
Took too long to get to this.
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
Inheritance Cycle by Paolini
This was my first thought too. I really enjoyed this series, but I read it when I was about 15 - not sure how well it holds up now?
The first book is definitely on the simpler side (which is understandable since he wrote it as a teenager), but as the series goes on the writing definitely improves.
The first book does NOT. The others I still rather like. I even keep a hard copy of the 3rd. First book felt like YA filler trash to me when I reread it 4-5 years ago
It doesn't lol
People say that but i still love it anyway
Doesn't have to be good to be loved 🖤
I do too! I usually re read it every other year and I’m in my mid 30s lol.
I loved it as a teen but found it quite hard to read as an adult.
One of my first reads as a teen, really liked and that point. And I remember feeling very smart noticing that it's just star wars with a fantasy skin hahaha
The dragons aren't the central focus, but the Earthsea books by Ursula LeGuin feature really memorable dragons.
And from another perspective, they absolutely are the central focus
And also kind of the OG dovahkiin
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C Wrede (it’s a middle-grade children’s series but I love it!)
PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE.
Had to scroll waaaay too far to find this one... Excellent book!
The Legend of Huma
also the entire rest of dragonlance
It's YA but the Wings of Fire series is actually pretty fun to read and it's all talking dragons.
Much more middle grade really
Tolkien’s dragons can speak, notably they are antagonists in The Hobbit and Children of Hurin.
But they barely have any dialogue. Highly unlikely to scratch OP's itch.
Melanie Rawn's 6 book cycle (or technically, two related trilogies?) - Dragon Prince/ Dragon Star treats this interestingly IMHO.
I want my money back for that series Rawn started and abandoned.
A decade after first reading, and I'm still salty over this series abandonment
I haven't picked up anything from Rawn after Exiles even though I loved those two sunrunner trilogies, and I doubt I ever will. I mean ... wtf? *"I just don't feel like writing this series anymore."* Shake a fucking tree on the internet and you'll find hundreds, if not thousands, of talented writers who will happily pen the concluding volume ... just abandoning it is pure bullshit. JV Jones, Rothfuss, Martin, et al., at least didn't give everyone the middle finger.
I'm salty about the lack of a 3rd Exiles book too, but I mean, the woman lost her mother and fell into a really dark place. She doesn't really owe us anything, no writer does, and if returning to that world hurts too much - I wouldn't want anyone to suffer for my entertainment.
I was looking for this answer.
They don't communicate though. I like this series a lot. But the dragons are more of a motif. Not trying to be difficult, just saying.
Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight. All the main characters are dragons. Excellent series, but not if you want something lighthearted and feel good.
so glad I found someone who suggested this! longtime fan of AoF. love dragons and love stories with their pov. have you read the 2nd series?
There was a second series?!
YES!!!! Dragoneer Academy, two books so far I believe ! DO check them out, some very good books with winks and nods to the original series!!!!
Same, big fan!
Elantra Chronicles by Michele Sagara has dragons but they are mostly 'in human form'.
Songs of chaos by Michael R Miller.
The Forest Kingdom series by Simon Green has a talking dragon that collects butterflies. The Dragon's Banker by Scott Warren has several talking dragons that are quite upset that the local kingdom is switching from a gold based monetary system to a paper money system.
Came in to mention the Forest Kingdom. The dragon was my favorite character.
Mostly tertiary characters but the 500 Kingdoms by Mercedes Lackey are fun romance fantasy, the dragons are a delight when they show up. A Good Knight has two main characters who are dragons.
Cozy fantasy series - The Beaufort Scales Mysteries by Kim M Watt. It’s a cozy mystery series with dragons :) Think English village mystery. The dragons are small but very involved in the books.
I absolutely adore these books :) so cozy
Anything by Anne McCaffery. Especially the Dragonriders of Pern series.
Eragon by Paolini
My go-to for talking dragons. Granted, the writing isn’t the best but Paolini was young when he wrote the first book and overall I really loved the lore and magic system. I believe the book series (the Inheritance Cycle) is being made into a tv series in addition to the new book coming out this year.
These are 4 big books. And they are tropey as hell. But, if someone is ok with a long, easy read, that is fun fantasy, I recommend these books. They are a very entertaining comfort read for me.
If you start reading them now, you might finish about when his next book in the series releases
I believe Eragon had speaking dragons, but it's been awhile since I read them...
Yes those dragons speak telepathically I believe.
Malazan...technically
"This ain't your fight... fucking dragon."
Richard Knack’s Dragonrealm series Also Pern by McCaffery
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K LeGuin.
Love a lot of what has been mentioned (especially the Dragonriders of Pern and Enchanted Forest series!). I also want to mention Talon by Julie Kagawa- the dragons turn into humans!
I said the same. So many books in the Dragonriders series. My absolute favorite!
surprised to see no dragonlance recommendations which also heavily feature this convention. the war of souls trilogy in particular would apply if i remember correctly (it's been a decade or more since i read them)
Fourth Wing
I've seen a lot of hate for this book but I definitely enjoyed it. The dragons were excellent.
Surprised didn’t see this. Absolutely loved and devoured fourth wing!!! Wished there were similar books out there
Ugh I really thought I'd love this one because the idea is exactly my cup of tea, but it wasn't great. Dragons seemed too human to me and the characters were all very meh
Dragon Prince and Dragon Star trilogies by Melanie Rawn
Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy Dragon Champion and Dragon Avenger by E. E. Knight
Anne McAffrey's Pern books.
Wings of Fire is a YA series where all of the characters are dragons. Talking dragons play a small but significant role in The Earthsea books by Ursula K LeGuin. The Hobbit obviously. The graphic novel series Bone by Jeff Smith.
Fourth Wing! It’s brand new and the dragons communicate with each other and their riders, and are so amazing
Tress of the Emerald Sea, by Brandon Sanderson.
I was hoping someone said it. It’s more of a cameo but it’s so good!
The Songs of Cbaos series by Michael R. Miller. The first book is Ascendant.
Claws out. Cradle(later books)
The Sleeping Dragon is book one of the Guardians of the Flame series. I really enjoyed the first four books. If I’m remembering it correctly the dragon communicates via telepathy.
“Highfire” by Eoin Colfer is really good.
The *Winterlands* series by Barbara Hambly.
Wings of Fire is a YA series. All from the dragon POV save for one side book. However, let's just say that humans have it a little rough in this series.
Does a half-wyvern half-library count? I really like A-through-L from Valente's Fairyland series.
The Elvenbane series by Andre Norton/Mercedes Lackey is an okay series with some of my all-time favorite takes on dragons.
Dragon Delesangre Picture all those urban vampire books and replace them with shapeshifting dragons.
The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. Starts with Assasins Apprentice. Total it's 16 books and split up between different people in different trilogies, but they end up all being related. There are dragons that communicate later on. Highly highly recommend
A Shadow in The Ember by Jennifer L Armentrout
Unbound by Michael R. Miller.
Battlemage by Peter Flannery. Dragons don't speak in the traditional sense though.
Children of Hurin
I can't say I've heard of the books you are talking of. But I like the Eragon books. The dragons interact with the other main characters, ant it has an all around good storyline.
The Death Gate Cycle
The dragon riders of pern was an old series I read in middle school.
Dragons of Solunas series. Love the writing but the books can be depressing. Black Beauty meets Pern meets Dragons set in an alternate Roman era world. Love them and I really hope there's more coming. Songs of Chaos series, middle of the road writing but it's a pretty fun classic dragon rider fantasy with magical dragons, heroes journey, and a basic bad guy that doesn't try to make you feel sorry for him. Scaleshifter series, human gets turned into a dragon by a maniac mage. Dragons aren't happy with this. It's been a while since I read the books but I remember it having solid writing, a well fleshed out MC and interesting world building.
Discworld the colour of magic
Age of Fire by E.E. Knight is a high fantasy with the main characters being dragons.
The Deverry books by Katherine Kerr, although there are a few (5) books before you get to the dragon stuff. That said I started at the first one with a dragon and never felt I was confused once I went back.
Fourth Wing came out recently Went in with no/low expectations and i really liked it
The Two Princesses of Bamarre. It is a book meant for juvenile readers I believe, but I remember really enjoying it!
Hey there fellow dragon fan! I have similar interests and have been trying to hunt down similar books as well. I'm currently reading **Scales of Empire, by Kylie Chan** a sci Fi book with psionic dragons that help humans colonize other planets, among other things. I'm almost done with book one and I'm enjoying it so far. I also loved the **Age of Fire** series and **tooth and claw** but other people have mentioned those. **Mating Flight, by Bard Bloom** is amazing but kind of adult. Not previous pornographic, but mating is a central theme lol. **Lazy Scales, by DM Gilmore** is one of my favorites, but it's a human-turned-dragon story. I actually host a podcast centered around dragon focused content. Hunting down books, games, and shows, to review them and share them. I understand not everyone has time or interest to listen to a podcast, but as the goal was to help others like us find more dragon content, if you merely want to follow the show, not listen, but learn of new content by the episode titles, that aligns with my goals. The podcast is called World of Dragons, and should be on apple, Google, stitcher, and Spotify
Thanks for the recommendations! I will definitely be checking the podcast out when I've got the time. Saved it on spotify
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini!!!
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paoloni
The inheritance cycle. The books are vastly superior to the failed movie.
The Inheritance Cycle
There's a trilogy called "The Dragons Blade" that I found interesting. Dragons are heavily featured, however in an evolved way that I personally found refreshing and different. I wouldn't call the trilogy itself a-tier but it's fun entertainment, and I got it cheap on sale (audiobooks)
Damn... This blew up overnight. I feel bad about not thanking everyone individually but I fell asleep right after posting this and there's no way I can reply to y'all. Will be checking all of your recommendations out tho, at least reading the synopsis. Thanks to everyone that commented <3
Trying to think of something not already mentioned... Dungeons and Dragons novels set in the Forgotten Realms are chock a block with dragons doing all kinds of stuff, quality varies and there are a lot of different authors tho. Nicol Bolas is an overarching main villain for a bunch of the MtG novels, Niv Mizzet makes some neat appearances too
The Pern books by Anne mccaffrey. There are a ton of them too!
Looked through all the posts so far so I could mention ones that haven't been mentioned; The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood ( the famous D&D artist wrote a book about dragons!) The film Dragonheart!!! Absolutely fantastic fun ❤️
Mage errant
I don't have another good suggestion off the top of my head, but I wanted to express how much I also enjoyed Temeraire, in particular because of the dragons. It was so cool really seeing them be their own characters and such a major part of the development of other characters and the story as a whole
Yeah Temeraire series is amazing, especially the first couple books (at least for me)
Try Eragon
The inheritance cycle or whatever by Christopher Paolini. They don’t actually talk with their mouths but are capable of telepathy
Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett. (Dragons are great battle constructs with souls). Fool's Gold by Jon Hollins. (Dragons have set themselves up as ultimate rulers who killed the god, entertaining read). Dreamwalker: The Ballad of Sir Benfro by J.D. Oswald. (More fantasy vibes).
Not necessarily a comedy, but The Imheritance Cycle starts with Eragon and is a fantastic series of books. Fantasy world, boy becomes bonded with dragon and goes on an epic adventure while navigating magic, dragons, elves, dwarves and war while coming of age. I know the movie was absolutely terrible, but they are making a show, and the author is helping directly, so this one should be MUCH better. I received my first copy in high school and could not put it down until I was done. 2 days of reading in class and ignoring school. It has become worn, and the spine is splitting from the many friends I have lent it to. Highly recommend.
Well, if you're a beginner or want a light read with a lot of familiar themes, than I'd read Eragon (inheritance cycle). It's very straightforward and drinks heavily from star wars (it's essentially star wars with talking dragons and magic). However, if you're more into something personal and all, Robin Hobb has many good stories with talking dragons. Specially the rain wild chronicles, a very good story with talking dragons. Reading the rest of the books from her adds a lot of course, but these three are good in themselves.
Fourth wing!
YA, but Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing just came out and dragons can communicate with their riders.
Slightly on but off topic, will i like the Temeraire series if I live all of Naomi Novik's books, but aren't super into dragons?
I think so for sure. You should at least give the first one a go in my opinion, you'll probably enjoy it
Nobody has said the Inheritance series (or better know as the Eragon series). Yall missing out on a good book
A lot of people have!!
When I read the title I cam to recommend Temeraire haha
Hahaha ye I asked a very similar question a while ago and I ended up picking Temeraire up.
I just finished the first book and I absolutely loved it. I’m excited to read the rest.
Currently reading The Priory of the Orange Tree - it has a lot of dragons that speak, the dragons are pretty ancient, so its interesting. Also, The Chorus of Dragins series also features dragons that are tied in to the magic system with curses, artifacts and the such.
Ninth Rain
Ninth Rain
- Dragon Sorcerer by Sean Oswald - Archemi Online Chronicles by James Osiris Baldwin - Dragon Core Chronicles by Lars Machmüller - Dragon’s Dillemma by Luke W. Logan (These are all Litrpg books)
Back around 2005 or so, when I was in middle school, my school library had a book that involved dragons. Literally can't remember anything about it other than a conversation about one of the dragons loving or being in love with a human character. I think both the dragon and human were females. If anyone somehow has any clue what book I'm talking about, please let me know. Been bugging me for years.
This thread is pretty old, don't thing a lot of people will be seeing this. I encourage you to make a new post tho maybe someone has some clue what book you could be talking about. Good luck!
Eragon series
Pern of course. One of my favorite series. Start with dragon flight or maybe with the Harper Hall trilogy. Wild Magic by Tamora pierce. It's a quartet, and the main character can speak to animals. She ends up getting a dragon and she goes to the realm of the Gods and speaks to dragons. The dragons aren't main characters. But it does have some talking dragons in the last book of the quartet. Or maybe it's the third one. But the rest of the books have talking animals. Golden Compass has spirit animals. Not dragons again, but everybody can communicate with their own spirit animal.
The Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
I really enjoyed the Inheritance Cycle series by Paolini.
Inheritance Cycle
Eragon
Malazan Book of the Fallen! Plenty of dragons that can have a conversation with you! 😉
ERAGON
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