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Not the complete collection, of course, so if you know any that I don't (preferably title and author), please tell me, so I can add them to the list (not to mention reading them myself). I am here listing all the dragon books I have found, rather than just the best ones, although the order in which they are listed under each heading is a rough indication of my personal preferences (favourites at the top)... Oh, and if you know an internet review for a book I have on my list, even if it already has a review, do tell me, because I may well like yours better.
Good Dragons
Bad (sorry, misunderstood) Dragons
Both
Indifferent, Ambiguous or of Alterable Amiability
Anthologies
Illustrated Books
For Younger Readers
Dragons Can Only Rust, and its sequel Dragon Reforged, by Chris Cymri
The Wild Magic series, by Tamora Pierce:
The Pit Dragon trilogy, by Jane Yolen:
The Dragonlord series, by Joanne Bertin:
Dragonheart, by Charles Edward Pogue
Djinn Rummy and Odds and Gods, by Tom Holt
(these two are not strictly related, but they both share a common
character, who has the distinction of being the only Aussie dragon
I have ever read about)
The Dragon Knight series, by Gordon R. Dickson:
The Dragonriders of Pern series, by Anne McCaffrey (in chronological, not publishing, order):
The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, by Jody Lynn Nye with Anne McCaffrey
The Myth series, by Robert Asprin:
The Dragon Quartet (unfinished), by Marjorie B. Kellogg:
The Dragon Nimbus trilogy, by Irene Radford:
The Palenoc trilogy, by Robin Wayne Bailey:
Dragon Summer, by Helen Boswell-Smith
Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolf, by Sue Isle
St George and the Dragon and the Quest for the Holy Grail, and it's
sequel The Quest for the Flaming Pearl : Tales of St George & the Dragon,
by Edward M. Hays
(two books written by a Christian friar, full of deeply religious
parables, and they are told by a good dragon! I whole-heartedly
applaud Fr. Hays for his open-mindedness towards us)
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien
(for who could forget Smaug, the original 'bad dragon'!)
The Dragon Fire Trilogy, by Charles Ashton:
Shadowrunner books containing dragons, by Robert N. Charrette:
Mithgar books containing dragons, by Dennis L. McKiernan:
With My Knife, and its sequel Dragonfox, by Andrew Lansdown
The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien
(rather more obscure than The Hobbit, a complex history of Middle-Earth,
including the origins of Smaug)
The Ultimate Dragon Saga trilogy, by Graham Edwards:
...and its 'sequel' trilogy, the Stone trilogy:
The Halfblood Chronicles, by Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey:
Discworld books featuring dragons, by Terry Pratchett:
Dragonlance books containing dragons:
The Mouvar series, by Piers Anthony & Robert E. Margroff:
The Deathgate series, by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman:
Paint Your Dragon, by Tom Holt
The Dragonsbane series, by Barbara Hambly:
The Magic Kingdom of Landover series, by Terry Brooks:
The Wizard of Earthsea series, by Ursula K. LeGuin:
Lords of the Sky, by Angus Wells
Dragon's Winter, by Elizabeth A. Lynn
The Dragonsword trilogy, by Gael Baudino:
Dragon's Rock, by Tim Bowler
(don't expect too much dragon content, the 'dragon' is only apparent
to one person and seems to be a metaphor for the land rather than a creature
in its own right)
A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (short stories), edited by Margaret Weis
Dragonlance anthologies (short stories), edited by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman:
Dragons and Warrior Daughters (short stories), edited by Jessica Yates
Dragon Poems, compiled by John Foster and Korky Paul
(technically a picture book for children, and the pictures are
pretty childish, but a some of the poems are anything but, especially the
last one)
Illustrated
Books
(note that these are seperate to children's books - just because
they have big pictures doesn't necessarily mean they are for children)
A Diversity of Dragon, by Anne McCaffrey and Richard Woods, illustrations by John Howe
The Flight of Dragons, by Peter Dickinson, illustrations by Wayne
Anderson
(I should really call this non-fiction - it's a scientific thesis
on the anatomy and habits of 'real' dragons!)
The Discovery of Dragons, by Graeme Base
The Unprecedented Discovery of the Dragon Islands, by Kate Scarborough, illustrations by John Kelly
For
Younger Readers
(but that doesn't necessarily make them 'kiddie' - some of these
are excellent nonetheless!)
Snap-Dragons; A Tale of Christmas Eve, by Juliana Horatia Ewing
(a short story which was published in 1870, and as such has the
destinction of being the earliest-published dragon story I know of)
Benjamin the Lonely Dragon, by Marc Craste
Ignis, by Gina Wilson
Dragon Boy, by Dick King-Smith
The R. Dragon series, by Rosemary Manning:
The Dragon of Mith, by Kate Walker
The Charlie, Emma series, by Margaret Greaves:
The Little Dragon series, by Ann Jungman:
The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup, by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrations by Emma Chichester Clark
A Book Dragon, by Donn Kushner
A Dragon in Class 4, and its sequel A Dragon in Spring-Term, by June Counsel
Teacher-Eater, by Paul Jennings, illustrations by Jeanette Rowe
Dragonspell, by John Parker
(the only book in this list to contain only a bad dragon - therefore
I'm not reccomending it to read to your children, although I have to include
it for the sake of completeness)
