Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books With the Word “___” In the Title.
Favorite Books with “Dragon” in the Title (and dragons in the book!)
I already posted a Top Ten Tuesday list for this week, because I missed it last week and I didn’t want to skip it. But I was excited for this prompt, too, and had already picked out my word and most of my titles. So you’re getting a bonus TTT post from me this week, a day late. The books have dragons in the title, and dragons in the book, because there’s nothing so annoying to a dragon lover as expecting dragons and not actually getting them.
- His Majesty’s Dragon (Naomi Novik; Temeraire series)*
- Dragonsong (Anne McCaffrey; Harper Hall trilogy)
- The White Dragon (Anne McCaffrey; Dragonriders of Pern series)*
- Dealing with Dragons (Patricia Wrede; Enchanted Forest Chronicles)
- The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart (Stephanie Burgis; Tales of the Chocolate Heart)*
- The Tea Dragon Society (written and illus. by K. O’Neill; Tea Dragon Society trilogy)
- Nice Dragons Finish Last (Rachel Aaron; Heartstriker series)*
- The Last Dragonslayer (Jasper Fforde; The Last Dragonslayer series)*
- A Natural History of Dragons (Marie Brennan; Lady Trent series)
- The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Grahame; this edition illus. by Michael Hague)
- Merlin and the Dragons (Jane Yolen, illus. by Li Ming)*
* Links go to my review or mini-review of the book or series.
On my TBR list
Still unread, and listed alphabetically by author:
- One Good Dragon Deserves Another (Rachel Aaron; book 2 in the Heartstriker series, of which I have only read book 1)
- Queen of Dragons (Shana Abe)
- I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons (Peter S. Beagle)
- To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Moniquill Blackgoose; Nampeshiweisit series)
- Three Tasks for a Dragon (Eoin Colfer; illus. by P. J. Lynch)
- How to Train Your Dragon (Cressida Cowell)
- Dragonsbane (Barbara Hambly)
- Handbook for Dragon Slayers (Merrie Haskell)
- A Dragon Rider’s Guide to Retirement (Julia Huni; Dragons of Safe Haven series)
- The Bakery Dragon (Devin Elle Kurtz; Bakery Dragon series)
- A Book Dragon (Donn Kushner)
- The Book of Dragons (E. Nesbit)
- Miss Percy’s Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons (Quenby Olson; Miss Percy Guide series) (I started this but need to get back to it)
- Dragonspell (Donita K. Paul; Dragonkeeper Chronicles)
- A Fellowship of Librarians & Dragons (J. Penner; Adenashire series)
- Dragon’s Blood (Jane Yolen; Pit Dragon Chronicles)
For more books with dragons in them, please check out my Dragon Books Masterlist (which I really need to update!) and a TTT post from 2022, Top Ten Books/Series with Dragons on the Cover.
Louise @ Foxes and Fairy Tales
Dealing with Dragons was SUCH a childhood fave!