Celebrate the Year of the Dragon with 26 Dragon-y Books!

大家，新年快乐！Happy New Year, everyone! Today, February 10th, is Lunar New Year, and in many countries that use the lunar calendar, the new year to come is the year of the dragon, so we thought it’d be fun to share some of our favorite books featuring dragons! These books have a mixture of dragon type (some more Western, some more Eastern), and some are queer and some aren’t. The common theme is the prominence of dragons in the plot, because we LOVE dragons!

1. The Dragon of Jin-Sayeng (Chronicles of the Bitch Queen series) by K.S. Villoso
2. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
3. Highfire by Eoin Colfer
4. After the Dragons by Cynthia Zhang
5. The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
6. Copper Coins by Mu Su Li
7. The Tea Dragon Society (The Tea Dragon Society series) by K. O’Neill
8. Hands Off, Evil Dragon! by Kitty Roe Factory
9. Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui
10. Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
11. Wyrms: An Anthology of Dragon Drabbles by Eric Fomley
12. To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Nampeshiweisit series) by Moniquill Blackgoose
13. The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos series) by Samantha Shannon
14. Seraphina (Seraphina series) by Rachel Hartman
15. Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal series) by Zen Cho
16. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen series) by Aliette de Bodard
17. Wild Magic (The Immortals series) by Tamora Pierce
18. Dragon Slippers (Dragon Slippers series) by Jessica Day George
19. Dragon (Five Ancestors series) by Jeff Stone
20. Magyk (Septimus Heap series) by Angie Sage
21. Dragon Keeper (Dragon Keeper series) by Carole Wilkinson
22. Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Eon series) by Alison Goodman
23. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon series) by Grace Lin
24. Dragon-Ridden (Dragon Ridden Chronicles series) by T.A. White
25. His Majesty’s Dragon (Temeraire series) by Naomi Novik
26. In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard

What are your favorite dragon books? We’d love to add to our list!

The contributors to list this are: Alex, Owl Outerbridge, Hermit, D. V. Morse, Nina Waters, Shadaras, Sebastian Marie, Tris Lawrence, and anonymous.