Dragon Eye-View Fiction

Dragons: Those magnificent, legendary creatures (typically displaying serpentine or otherwise reptilian features) found in the myths and folklore of many cultures. This list is arranged by author. The titles listed directly below include novels written with the perspectives and lives of the dragons themselves, as well as dragon shapeshifters. For novels with dragons as major or minor characters – see the blog section titled ‘Dragon Fiction’. For books involving Dragon shapeshifters (to human) and romance – see the blog section titled ‘Dragon Shapeshifter Romance Fiction’. See also sections titled ‘Dragon Game World Novels’, ‘Dragon Information & Care Handbooks’ and ‘Dragon Art & Drawings’ by clicking the label link ‘Dragons’.

Little Lost Dragon by Wayne Anderson (2009).

The Sword of the Dragon series by Scott Appleton. When in ancient times the dragon prophet was betrayed by his choicest warriors, he set in mind a plan to bring them to justice. One thousand years later he prepares his human daughters to mete out that justice, and sends them in search of the first traitor.
1) Swords of the Six (2009)
2) Offspring (2011)

The Griffen McCandles series by by Robert Asprin.
1) Dragons Wild (2008)
2) Dragons Luck (2009)
3) Dragons Deal (2010) (with Jody Lynn Nye)

GreeHee: The Journey of Five by Michele Avanti (2006). GreeHee son of Tereem the Terrible, an adolescent dragon.

The Wyvernwood series by Robin Wayne Bailey.
1) Dragonkin (2001)
2) Talisman (2004)
3) Undersky (2005)

The Tales of the Frog Princess series by E. D. Baker.
2) Dragon's Breath (2003)
6) The Dragon Princess (2008)
7) Dragon Kiss (2009)

Worm in the Blood by Thomas Bloor (2005).
Beast Beneath the Skin by Thomas Bloor (2006).
Heart of the Serpent by Thomas Bloor (2007).
The Dragon and the Warlord by Thomas Bloor (2008).

Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey (2007). The dragons which the Three meet in the forests of Jarrosh.

The Dragons of Noor by Janet Lee Carey (2010). Tells the tale of Princess Rosalind, who was born with a greenish-yellow dragon talon on her wedding finger, and thus must wear golden gloves to hide her secret.

The Truth series by Dawn Cook. A young woman, Alissa, becomes part of a world of magic and develops the ability to transform into a dragon.
1) First Truth (2002)
2) Hidden Truth (2002)
3) Forgotten Truth (2003)
4) Lost Truth (2004)

The Dragon Diaries series by Deborah Cooke.
1) Flying Blind (2011)
2) Winging It (2011)

The Jennifer Scales series by MaryJanice Davidson and Anthony Alongi. And Jennifer thought puberty sucked. Try morphing into a dragon. Blue scales? Claws? A snout? Come on!
1) Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace (2005)
2) Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light (2006)
3) The Silver Moon Elm (2007)
4) Seraph of Sorrow (2009)
5) Rise of the Poison Moon (2010)
6) Evangelina (coming in 2011)

The Dragons in Our Midst series by Bryan Davis. Clefspeare, Hartanna, Firedda and others.
1) Raising Dragons (2004)
2) The Candlestone (2004)
3) The Circles of Seven (2005)
4) The Tears of a Dragon (2005)
Dragons in Our Midst Omnibus (2009)

The Dragons of Starlight series by Bryan Davis.
1) The Starlighter (2010)
2) Warrior (2011)
3) Diviner (2011)

The Memory of Flames series by Stephen Deas. Dragons, once unstoppable, have been subdued by humans for centuries. However a political plot frees one of the dragons and triggers as cascade of terror as the dragons seek to topple their human overseers.
1) The Adamantine Palace (2009)
2) The King of the Crags (2010)
3) The Order of the Scales (coming in 2011)
4) The Black Mausoleum (due in 2012)

The Painted Boy by Charles DeLint (2010).

The Dragon Knight series by Gordon R. Dickson.
1) The Dragon and the George (1976). Bryagh, Gorbash and Smrgol plus various others.
2) The Dragon Knight (1990)
3) The Dragon on the Border (1992)
4) The Dragon at War (1992)
5) The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll (1994)
6) The Dragon and the Djinn (1996)
7) The Dragon and the Gnarly King (1997)
8) The Dragon in Lyonesse (1998)
9) The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent (2000)

The Hatching Magic series by Ann Downer.
1) Hatching Magic (2003)
2) The Dragon of Never-Was (2006)

The Ultimate Dragon Saga series by Graham Edwards. Cumber, Fortune, Wraith and many other dragon characters.
1) Dragoncharm (1995)
2) Dragonstorm (1996)
3) Dragonflame (1997)

Dragon’s Ring by Dave Freer (2009). Fionn, a black dragon who plans to destroy Tasmarin.

Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke (1997). Firedrake, Slatebeard, Maia, Shimmertail and several unnamed dragons.

The Winterlands series by Barbara Hambly. Morkeleb the black dragon is the major characters around who revolves the plot.
1) Dragonsbane (1985) – Locus award nominee 1986 and 1987.
2) Dragonshadow (1999) – Locus award nominee 2000.
3) Knight of the Demon Queen (2000) – Locus award nominee, 2001.
4) Dragonstar (2002)
5) Princess (2010). Novella starring John Aversin.

The Dragon's Prophecy by H. M. Hearing (2010). The dragons of Aquii are doomed. Power that flowed freely in the dragons was stolen by the presence of humans in their blue world. Their race dwindles more each year since the humans have arrived, but it is a human prophesised who will save them all and return their power to them. Not all of them approve and many dragons would rather die than trust a human again.

Nine Dragons: A Contemporary Fable by George Herman and Kristen Seaton (2003).

The Liveship Traders trilogy by Robin Hobb. Part of the Realm of the Elderlings storyline. Dragons and humans once coexisted. Their essences became mixed in some cases, producing scaled humans referred to as Elderlings, or small, rubbery-skinned dragons, called "Others" and treated as abominations. Humans carved living dragon statues out of special living stone; these statues were later used as a weapon against the Outislanders by King Verity Farseer of the Six Duchies. Hobb's dragons begin life as sea serpents, who swim upriver to a special beach where they would cocoon themselves and hatch as dragons the next year. After a natural disaster changed the shape of the land and killed all but two dragons, the serpents could no longer reach their cocooning grounds and remained in the sea.
1) Ship of Magic (1998)
2) The Mad Ship (1999)
3) Ship of Destiny (2000)

The Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb. Part of the Realm of the Elderlings storyline. Icefyre and Tintaglia, the last remaining dragons. The Fool seeks the head of a dragon…
2) The Golden Fool (2002)
3) Fool's Fate (2003)

The Rain Wild Chronicles trilogy (third book in progress) by Robin Hobb. Part of the Realm of the Elderlings storyline.
1) The Dragon Keeper (2009)
2) Dragon Haven (2010)

The Shifters series by Sarah A. Hoyt.
1) Draw One in the Dark (2006)
2) Gentleman Takes a Chance (2008)

The Magical British Empire series by Sarah A. Hoyt.
1) Heart of Light (2008)
2) Soul of Fire (2008)
3) Heart and Soul (2008)

In The Land Of Dragons by Richard L Hummel and Rob Anderson (2010).

The Song in the Silence series by Elizabeth Kerner. The Kantri, a society of telepathic dragons, including Akhor, the king; Shikrar, his soulfriend; Kedra and Mirazhe, the first new parents in centuries, and Idai, and old and wise admirer of Akhor.
1) Song in the Silence: The Tale of Lanen Kaelar (1996)
2) The Lesser Kindred (2000)
3) Redeeming the Lost (2004)

The Guild Wars series by J. Robert King.
1) Edge of Destiny (2010)

The Chronicles of Kale: A Dragon's Awakening by Aya Knight (2011).

The Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight. Auron (later AuRon), the gray, scaleless dragon. Also included are Natasatch (his mate), Irelia (his green mother), AuRel (his bronze father), Jizara (green sister), Wistala (green sister), NooMoahk (black dragon), Rugaard (copper dragon), and many others.
1) Dragon Champion (2005)
2) Dragon Avenger (2006)
3) Dragon Outcast (2007)
4) Dragon Strike (2008)
5) Dragon Rule (2009)
6) Dragon Fate (2010)

Dragons Among Us by C. L. Kraemer (2010). In a world full of anomalies such as the platypus and self reproducing Komodo dragon, is the human race willing to accept that dragons may be real? Sapien Draconi-human-dragon shape shifters-all over the world face this dilemma every day.

In the House of Five Dragons by E. D. Lindquist and Aron Christensen (2010).

Puff the Magic Dragon by Lenny Lipton and Peter Yarrow (2010).

Dragon's Winter by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1998). Shape-shifting twin brothers fight to rule their father’s kingdom.
Dragon's Treasure by Elizabeth A. Lynn (2003).

The Dragon Age series by James Maxey. Book 1: Bitterwood has spent the past twenty years hunting down dragons, one at a time. But he is getting old and the hate that he has carried in his heart since a group of dragon-soldiers killed his family is beginning to fade. When he kills the royal prince dragon, the king decides the only retribution is genocide of the human race. Bitterwood is forced to enter the Free City, the grand trap designed to eradicate mankind, with thousands of others.
1) Bitterwood (2007)
2) Dragonforge (2008)
3) Dragonseed (2009)

Legend of the White Dragon (Legends / Legacies / Destiny) Omnibus by Melanie Nilles (2010).
Fireblood (Legend of the White Dragon #4) by Melanie Nilles (2011).

The Draca Wards Saga series by B. Pine.
1) Familiar Origins (2011)

The Chronicles of Krangor series by Michael Pryor (actually dinosaurs not dragons).
1) Lost Castle (2007)
2) The Missing King (2008)
3) The King in Reserve (2009)

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo by Adam Roberts (2010).

The Dragonic Voyages series by by Katherine A. Smith
1) Dragons to Loosen (2008)
2) Dragonic Freedom (2009)
3) Dragonic Pride (2010)
4) To be published.

The Dragon Delasangre series by Alan F Troop.
1) The Dragon Delasangre (2002)
2) Dragon Moon (2003)
3) The Seadragon's Daughter (2004)
4) A Host of Dragons (2006)

The Clan of the Claw series by Harry Turtledove (with Jody Lynn Nye, John Ringo, S M Stirling). The dinosaurs were not wiped out and now the descendants of mammals (feline-like people) and dinosaurs (dragons) battle for control of the Earth.
1) Exiled (coming in 2011)

Dragons Bait by Vivian Vande Velde (1992). Falsely accused of witchcraft, 15-year-old Alys is staked out on a hillside and left as sacrificial bait for a hungry dragon. It's cold, dark, and raining, and Alys is completely alone. Suddenly, Alys sees the shadow of the dragon coursing across the moon--does the dragon see her?

Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (2003). The tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, of a son who goes to law for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father's deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband. Except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.

Dragons of Asgard by Scott C. Waring (2010).

The Dragonvarld series by Margaret Weis. Maristara, an evil black dragon; Braun, her grandson; Draconas, the walker, a dragon in human form; and various other dragons.
1) Mistress of Dragons (2003)
2) The Dragon's Son (2004)
3) Master of Dragons (2005)
4) Dragonvarld Adventures (2007)

The Book of Man trilogy by Jane Welch
1) Dawn of a Dark Age (2001)
2) The Broken Chalice (2002)
3) The Allegiance of Man (2003)

The Dragon or Shimmer and Thorn series by Laurence Yep. Story involving Shimmer the dragon princess.
1) Dragon of the Lost Sea (1982)
2) Dragon Steel (1985)
3) Dragon Cauldron (1991)
4) Dragon War (1992)

City of Fire by Laurence Yep (2010).

The Pit Dragon series by Jane Yolen. Heart's Blood and several others.
1) Dragon's Blood (1982)
2) Heart's Blood (1984)
3) A Sending of Dragons (1987)
4) Dragon's Heart (2009)
The Pit Dragon Trilogy Omnibus (Books 1-3) (1998)