How To Train Your Dragon Books in Order
There are 22 How To Train Your Dragon books, published between 1999 and 2019: 20 in the 2 main-line series and 2 related titles. The first book is Hiccup the Seasick Viking / How To Be A Viking (1999) and the newest main-line book is Homecoming (2019). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 22
- Published
- 1999–2019
- Confirmed
- 16 of 22 titles
- Pages on record
- 3,061 in 11 of 22 books
- Reading time
- 51–77 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,061 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 22 titles with a page count on record.
How To Train Your Dragon is Cressida Cowell's humorous children's series about Vikings and dragons, with Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III as the named central character. Hiccup the Seasick Viking (1999) comes first, and How to Train Your Dragon (2003) gives the series its name. Most titles take a how-to form: How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse and How to Break a Dragon's Heart. The run holds 22 books, including short stories and non-fiction guides, and Homecoming (2019) is the last.
How many How To Train Your Dragon books are there?
How To Train Your Dragon has 22 books, released between 1999 and 2019. 20 of them belong to the 2 main-line series (How to Train Your Dragon, How To Train Your Dragon: Hidden World), and 2 related titles sit outside it: short stories and novellas and non-fiction.
How To Train Your Dragon Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 22 How To Train Your Dragon books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Hiccup the Seasick Viking / How To Be A VikingHow to Train Your Dragon #11999 · 32 pages · confirmed 3/41999323/4
- 220032563/4
- 32004–4/4
- 420052403/4
- 52006–4/4
- 62007–4/4
- 720082563/4
- 820082723/4
- 920093203/4
- 102011–4/4
- 112012–3/4
- 1220124164/4
- 1320133663/4
- 1420142073/4
- 1520142243/4
- 1620154724/4
- 172019–2/4
- 182019–2/4
- 202019–2/4
- 212019–2/4
- 222019–2/4
How To Train Your Dragon Books in Chronological Order
By publication date, the books of the 2 main-line series run from Hiccup the Seasick Viking / How To Be A Viking (1999) to Homecoming (2019), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for How To Train Your Dragon in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.
Do you have to read How To Train Your Dragon books in order?
You should read the 2 main-line series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 2 related titles (short stories and novellas and non-fiction) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each How To Train Your Dragon book also stands alone.
What order should you read How To Train Your Dragon books in?
Read them in publication order, starting with Hiccup the Seasick Viking / How To Be A Viking (1999), the earliest published book in the 2 main-line series. After it come How to Train Your Dragon (2003), How to Be a Pirate (2004), How to Speak Dragonese (2005) and How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse (2006); the numbered table above continues from there.
What is the newest How To Train Your Dragon book?
Homecoming (2019) is the newest book in the 2 main-line series.
Is there a new How To Train Your Dragon book coming?
No next How To Train Your Dragon book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
How To Train Your Dragon at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest main-line How To Train Your Dragon title on record is Homecoming (2019), 7 years ago.
- Release pace
- How To Train Your Dragon books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,061 pages across the 11 of 22 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most How To Train Your Dragon books, 13 of 22, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 6 of the 22 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and 16 in at least three.
- Attribution
- Of the 22 titles, 16 are credited to Cressida Cowell, 2 to Patrick Spaziante, 2 to Shane L. Johnson and 1 to Michelle Lam. One further writer is credited.
What the How To Train Your Dragon books are about
16 of the 22 How To Train Your Dragon books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: dragons is tagged on 15 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Dragons 15 of 16 books
- Children's fiction 14 of 16 books
- Vikings 13 of 16 books
- Humor 9 of 16 books
- Dragons, juvenile literature 2 of 16 books