Fantasy Book Club discussion

For those who didn't get enough dragons with our book of the month, Nice Dragons Finish Last, here's some reads featuring dragons of all kinds.

Tell us about your favorite dragon book in the comments to have it added to the list :D

Standalones

Song of the Beast by Carol Berg
The Dragon Lord by David Drake
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
Dragonworld by Byron Preiss
Dragonrank Master by Mickey Zucker Reichert
The Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dragon Stones by James V. Viscosi
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

Series
(only the first book in the series will be linked)

Requiem's Song by Daniel Arenson (Dawn of Dragons)
Dawnthief by James Barclay (Chronicles of the Raven)
The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin (Dragonlord)
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (The Memoirs of Lady Trent)
Fortress of Dragons by C.J. Cherryh (Fortress in the Eye of Time)
Draigon Weather by Paige L. Christie (The Legacies of Arnan)
King's Exile by William L. Culbertson (Chronicles of the Dragon-Bound)
The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas (The Memory of Flames)
Dragon's Pawn by Carol L. Dennis (Dragon's Game)
The Door Into Shadow by Diane Duane (The Tale of the Five)
Draykon by Charlotte E. English (Draykon trilogy)
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen)
A Darkness At Sethanon by Raymond E. Feist (Riftwar Saga)
Dragon's Ring by Dave Freer (Dragon's Ring)
Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly (Winterlands)
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Seraphina)
The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb (Rain Wild Chronicles)
Song in the Silence by Elizabeth Kerner (The Tale of Lanen Kaelar)
Dragon Champion by E.E. Knight (Age of Fire)
Joust by Mercedes Lackey (Dragon Jousters)
The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood (The Evertide)
Dragon's Winter by Elizabeth A. Lynn (Dragon's Winter)
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Bitterwood by James Maxey (Dragon Age)
Greatshadow by James Maxey (Dragon Apocalypse)
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern)
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Damar)
The Elvenbane by Andre Norton (The Halfblood Chronicles)
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (Temeraire)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Inheritance Cycle)
DragonSpell by Donita K. Paul (The Dragonkeeper Chronicles)
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld: City Watch)
Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn (Dragon Prince)
The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg (Guardians of the Flame)
The Waking Fire by Anthony Ryan (The Draconis Memoria)
The Sorcery Within by Dave Smeds (The Sorcery Within)
Embers at Galdrilene by A.D. Trosper (Dragon's Call)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis (Dragonlance: Chronicles)
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Enchanted Forest Chronicles)

Oooh, lots for me to investigate there. Here are some others:

Standalone
Dragonworld by Byron Preiss
This is nearly 40 years old now but a great book.

Series
A Game of Thrones by George Martin
Needs no introduction but definitely has dragons!
King's Exile by William L. Culbertson (Chronicles of the dragon bound)
Draykon by Charlotte E. English (Draykon trilogy)

And another series although probably more YA
Joust by Mercedes Lackey (Dragon Jousters)

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett introduces a fun take on dragons. It's the 8th Discworld novel, but it's #1 in the City Watch subset.

Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Inheritance Cycle)
Dawnthief by James Barclay (Chronicles of the Raven)
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (Damar)
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn (Dragon Prince)

You beat me to it. I was just going to post the Melanie Rawn books😀

Liam wrote: "Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett introduces a fun take on dragons. It's the 8th Discworld novel, but it's #1 in the City Watch subset."

I love Guards! Guards!. Probably my favourite discworld book

Dragonsbane remains one of my favorites.

The Dragon Lord also, very very twisted spin on Arthurian.

Dragon's Pawn

There's a nice two volume anthology, various authors, nicely illustrated:

Dragons of Darkness and Dragons of Light

I will have to trip upstairs to the loft to continue this list - many many off the beaten titles, with dragons, shelved there.

Oh wow, so many recommendations. I'll add those to the list :)

And here I was, claiming to love dragons. I've read almost none of the books :o

Jason wrote: "Liam wrote: "Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett introduces a fun take on dragons. It's the 8th Discworld novel, but it's #1 in the City Watch subset."

I love [book:Guard..."

It's up there for me too. The City Watch is my favorite subset so far, but I'm not even half way through everything. There are whole subsets I haven't even started yet...

This is so good! I love dragons. I’ve convinced each class I have that I have a dragon in the Welsh hills.

These are great lists. I might have to do a Dragon challenge when I finish the three I'm working on now.

Tnkw01 wrote: "These are great lists. I might have to do a Dragon challenge when I finish the three I'm working on now."

Ooooh. I love this idea :D

Definitely think that a dragon challenge is a good idea

My trip to the bookshelves in the loft brought up these titles, some of them obscure....some old favorites.

Song of the Beast by Carol Berg - one of my favorites.

The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin

Fortress of Dragons by CJ Cherryh, which is in her Fortress in the Eye of Time series.

The Door Into Shadow by Diane Duane

A Darkness At Sethanon by Ray Feist, which falls in his Magician/Riftwar series.

Michael Moorcock also wrote The Dragon in the Wood, but other tomes with the same title are many/too many to search through to find it. Good Luck!

The Elvenbane

Dragon's Treasure by Elizabeth A. Lynn

Dragon World by Byron Preiss and J. Michael Reeves (another case of too many titles to search to find it)

The Warrior Lives by Joel Rosenberg

Dragonrank Master by Mickey Zucker Reichert

Schemes Of Dragons by David Smeds

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King involved a poison derived from them.

I haven't started on the illustrated art books/Dragons, there are many.

Wow..... I thought I was well read fantasy-wise but I'm not familiar with a single one of the books above. Thanks Janny, consider me inspired

Jason wrote: "Wow..... I thought I was well read fantasy-wise but I'm not familiar with a single one of the books above. Thanks Janny, consider me inspired"

I've been reading fantasy, particularly off the beaten track (hate today's reliance on algorithms!) for a long, long time!!

Thank you so much Janny! Really great list.

Speaking of dragons, Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter is currently $2.99 on Amazon.

Janny, was the Moorcock book The Dragon in the Sword? Also, dragons figure heavily in many of the Elric books.

Also, it looks like it's Dragonworld (one word). Not sure if I read that one, but I'm a big fan of Michael Reaves, especially his The Shattered World and its sequel (which may or may not have dragons in them?).

Joseph wrote: "Speaking of dragons, Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter is currently $2.99 on Amazon.

Janny, was the Moorcock book The Dragon in the Sword? Als..."

Maybe it was - the typeface on the spine was very "arty" and our book loft gets a huge amount of Florida sun, so the spines are sometimes faded - read sideways, you could be right.

Wow, a wonderful list. Thank you Janny!

I'll add those soon.

I’ve read three of those. Fortress is a great series.