Dragons book series in reading order

by Naomi Novik

by Ursula Vernon

by Josh Lacey

by Brandon Mull

by Bianca D’Arc

by Christopher Paolini

by Lisa McMann

by Sarah K.L. Wilson

by E.D. Baker

by Sarah A. Parker

by Tui T. Sutherland

by Daisy Meadows

by Elisabetta Dami

by Tui T. Sutherland

by Tracey West

by Tony Abbott

by Cornelia Funke

Margaret Weis

109 books• 34 series

Margaret Edith Weis, born March 16, 1948, is an American fantasy and science fiction author who, with Tracy Hickman at TSR, Inc., created the Dragonlance role-playing game world. Weis founded Sovereign Press and Margaret Weis Productions, which license television and film franchises for role-playing games. Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons in 1999, and the Origins Hall of Fame inducted Weis in 2002. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) is among the catalogued titles, and series include Death Gate Cycle, Darksword and Star Of The Guardians.

Tracey West, born October 1, 1965, is a children's author who writes for licensed series such as Pokémon and SpongeBob SquarePants. The catalogue lists 356 titles from 1988 to 2027, reaching Heart of the Ruby Dragon (2026), with Claw of the Diamond Dragon due in 2027. Named series include Pokémon chapter books, novelizations and readers, Naruto Chapter Books, LEGO Ninjago Reader, Bakugan Chapter Books, Pixie Tricks, Pet Vet Club and Scream Shop Pick Your Path. Dragon Masters and Heroes in Training appear as recurring lines. Ninja, dragons and plot-your-own stories appear among the subject headings.

Tui T. Sutherland

58 books• 13 series

Tui T. Sutherland is an American children's author, born July 31, 1978, with more than 60 books written under Sutherland's own name and several pen names. Sutherland is best known for Wings of Fire, a series of dragon fantasy novels, and won $46,200 over three games on Jeopardy! in 2009. The catalogue lists 58 Sutherland books from Jewel Sticker Stories (2000) to The Hybrid Prince (2026), with Kari Sutherland credited on 2. Other listings include Pet Trouble, Avatars and Menagerie. Subjects include dragons, pets, dogs, prophecies and fantasy.

Anne McCaffrey

96 books• 20 series

Anne McCaffrey (1 April 1926 to 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. McCaffrey was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction, for the novella Weyr Search (1968), and the first to win a Nebula, for Dragonrider (1969). The White Dragon (1978) was among the earliest science fiction books on the New York Times Best Seller list. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master in 2005. The catalogue lists 96 books, from Restoree (1967) to Sky Dragons (2011), plus the Acorna, Crystal Singer and Tower and Hive series.

Cressida Cowell

61 books• 12 series

Cressida Cowell, born Cressida Hare on 15 April 1966, is a British children's author. How to Train Your Dragon is the series Cowell is best known for; DreamWorks Animation adapted the series into a media franchise, and by 2015 the books had sold more than seven million copies worldwide. Cowell also writes the Emily Brown stories with illustrator Neal Layton, and the first, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestle Children's Book Award. The catalogue lists 61 books to 2025, with subjects such as dragons, Vikings, humorous stories and the character Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Other series include The Wizards of Once and Which Way To Anywhere.

Kate McMullan, born Kate Hall on January 16, 1947, is an American children's author with more than 100 published books. Myth-O-Mania and Dragon Slayers' Academy are the notable McMullan series, and others include Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig, Pearl and Wagner and Lila Fenwick. Greek mythology, knights, dragons, guinea pigs and school life feature in the subjects. The catalogue counts 124 books from 1984 to This Is the Tree We Planted (2022).

Bryan Davis writes Christian fantasy. Dragons in Our Midst, Oracles of Fire and Children of the Bard are the best known of the twelve series, and dragons, prophecy, demonology and the supernatural are their recurring subjects. Born in 1958, Davis grew up in the eastern United States, graduated from the University of Florida in industrial engineering and worked as a computer professional for more than 20 years before writing full time; publishers rejected his work over 200 times first. The catalogue holds 52 books from 1997 to From the Ashes (2026).

Chris d'Lacey is an English writer of children's fiction, best known for The Last Dragon Chronicles. Dragons run through much of the work, the Erth Dragons, the Dragons Of Wayward Crescent, alongside the Unicorne Files. Thirty-nine books are catalogued between A Hole At The Pole (1994) and The New Age (2018). Five titles appeared in 1998 alone: A Break in the Chain, Fly, Cherokee, Fly, Henry Spaloosh!, The Snail Patrol and The Table Football League. Magic, the supernatural, secret societies and adventure recur as subjects.

Christopher Paolini

10 books• 3 series

Dragons and magic carry Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle, which opens with Eragon (2002) and continues through Eldest, Brisingr and Inheritance. Murtagh returns to the same world, as do The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm and Eragon's Guide to Alagaesia. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars starts the Fractalverse, a science fiction strand. Ten titles make up the catalogue, long ones at a median of 528 pages.

Ursula Vernon

49 books• 10 series

Ursula Vernon is an American writer, artist and illustrator, born May 28, 1977, who also publishes for older readers as T. Kingfisher. Vernon's Hugo Awards cover the graphic novel Digger, the fantasy novel Nettle & Bone and the novella Thornhedge, and the short story "Jackalope Wives" won a Nebula. Hamster Princess and Dragonbreath are the children's series. The catalogue lists 51 titles from It Made Sense at the Time (2004) to Wolf Worm (2026), with A Spoonful of Trouble due in 2027 as T. Kingfisher. Saint of Steel, Swordheart and Sworn Soldier are among the other series.

Katie MacAlister, born in 1964, writes historical, contemporary and paranormal romance from the Seattle area. Vampires, dragons, demons and magic fill the paranormal series: Dark Ones, Aisling Grey: Guardian, Light Dragons, Silver Dragons, Dragon Falls and Dragon Hunter. MacAlister has 87 catalogued books, from Noble Intentions (2002) to The Dragon With A Girl Tattoo (2025). Young adult titles appear under the pen name Katie Maxwell, and mysteries under Kate Marsh.

Elisabetta Dami

309 books• 22 series

Elisabetta Dami, born 1 January 1958, is an Italian children's author known for the Geronimo Stilton book series. The catalogue credits Dami with 309 books from 1998 to 2026. Titles from 2000 include Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye, Attack Of The Bandit Cats and Four Mice Deep in the Jungle. Other listings include Geronimo Stilton: Thea Stilton, Mouseford Academy, Kingdom Of Fantasy, Geronimo Stilton Cavemice, Geronimo Stilton Spacemice and Creepella von Cacklefur. Subjects include mice, journalists, time travel and humorous stories. The Legend of Chocolate Hills (2026) is the newest title.

Dav Pilkey

86 books• 12 series

Dav Pilkey, born David Murray Pilkey Jr. on March 4, 1966, is an American comic book writer, author and illustrator of children's fiction. Captain Underpants and the graphic novel spin-off Dog Man are the series Pilkey is best known for. Dog Man appears under the pen names George Beard and Harold Hutchins, which are also the names of the two Captain Underpants protagonists. The catalogue holds 86 books from World War Won (1987) to A Sprinkle in Time (2026), and the Dragon, Dumb Bunnies, Ricky Ricotta and Cat Kid Comic Club lines also feature.

Paranormal romance is the field of Donna Grant, and the recorded subjects take in dragons, druids, shapeshifting, magic, vampires, man-woman relationships and Scotland. The listing holds 162 books and reaches Dragon Sieged in 2026, with the 2010s the heaviest decade. Series credited to Grant include Dark Kings, Reapers, Dark Warriors, Dark Sword, Druids Glen, Skye Druids, Elven Kingdoms, Sisters of Magic, Chiasson and LaRue. A Dark Guardian, A Kind of Magic, Highland Dawn, Highland Mist and Highland Nights all carry a 2006 date. Grant is still publishing.

Brandon Mull

35 books• 10 series

Brandon Mull, born November 8, 1974, is an American writer of children's fantasy. Fablehaven (2006) is the first catalogued book and the series most associated with Mull, along with Dragonwatch, The Candy Shop War, the Beyonders trilogy and Five Kingdoms, and Mull also launched the Spirit Animals series. The catalogue counts 35 books through Forbidden Mountain (2026). Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and J. K. Rowling are Mull's stated influences, and dragons, fairies and mythical creatures fill the subjects.

Naomi Novik

20 books• 3 series

Naomi Novik is an American author of speculative fiction. The Temeraire series (2006–2016) is an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars with dragons, and the Scholomance trilogy ran from 2020 to 2022. The standalone novels Uprooted (2015) and Spinning Silver (2018) draw on Polish folklore and the Rumpelstiltskin tale. Novik helped create the Organization for Transformative Works and co-founded the organisation's Archive of Our Own project. Awards include the Nebula, Locus and Mythopoeic. The catalogue lists 20 titles from His Majesty's Dragon (2006) to The Summer War (2025), with Liberty Vocational as a third series.

Julia Donaldson

349 books• 14 series

Dame Julia Donaldson, born Julia Catherine Shields on 16 September 1948, is a British writer and playwright who served as Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013. Rhyming stories for children made Donaldson's name, above all those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, such as The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Superworm. Donaldson first wrote songs for children's television; the lyrics of A Squash and a Squeeze became a picture book in 1993, and books have been the focus since. The catalogue carries 349 entries, from Tim's Bad Mood and Other Stories (1970) to The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile (2026), including Tales from Acorn Wood, Princess Mirror-Belle and Zog.

Dragons carry most of Donita K. Paul's fantasy, which the subject tags also mark as Christian fiction. DragonSpell (2004) opens the DragonKeeper Chronicles, followed by DragonQuest, DragonKnight, DragonFire and DragonLight. The Valley of the Dragons books, the Realm Walkers and The Dragon and the Turtle complete a catalogue of 15 titles, ending with Two Renegade Realms (2014). Wizards, quests and friendship fill the subject tags.

Craig Halloran writes fantasy, with 107 books catalogued from Wrath of the Royals (2009) to Blood of the Warborn (2026). Named series include Dragon Wars, Chronicles of Dragon, the Darkslayer books, the Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files, Henchmen Chronicles, Savage and the Sorcerer and Clash of Heroes. Dragons and adventure appear among the subject headings. Zombie Day Care (2009), Blades in the Night (2011) and Dragon Bones and Tombstones (2013) are among the earlier titles.

P.R. Frost / Irene Radford is a single catalogue entry covering two author names and 57 books published between 1994 and 2023. Fantasy is the core of the run: dragons, magic, wizards and the imaginary land of Coronnan, with science fiction and historical fantasy beside it. The Glass Dragon (1994) opens the catalogue and Confessions of a Changeling Dancer (2023) closes it. The Dragon Nimbus with its history and Children sequences, Merlin's Descendants, Tess Noncoire, the Stargods, Confederated Star Systems, the Pixie Chronicles, Artistic Demons, the Shadow Conspiracy, Gears and Levers, and the Whistling River Lodge Mysteries are the listed series.

Josh Lacey, born in London in 1968, is a British writer of children's books who also publishes as Joshua Doder. One adult title sits in the catalogue: God Is Brazilian (2005), a biography of Charles Miller, the man who brought football to Brazil. The children's books run to 27 catalogued titles dated 2004 to 2021, with dragons, pets, islands and adventure among the recorded subjects, in series including Dragonsitter, Misfitz Mysteries, Hope Jones and Tom Trelawney.

Robin Hobb

25 books• 9 series

Robin Hobb is one of two pen names of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden, an American writer of speculative fiction born on March 5, 1952; the other is Megan Lindholm. As Hobb she writes fantasy set in the Realm of the Elderlings, made up of the Farseer, Liveship Traders and Tawny Man trilogies, the Rain Wild Chronicles and the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. The catalogue lists 25 books from 1991 to 2026, with Assassin's Apprentice (1995), Royal Assassin (1996) and Assassin's Quest (1997) among the early titles, and also includes the Soldier Son Trilogy. As of 2018 her fiction had been translated into 22 languages and sold more than 4 million copies.

Mercedes Lackey

230 books• 52 series

Valdemar, a country in the world of Velgarth, is the setting for many of Mercedes Lackey's interlinked fantasy novels and trilogies. Lackey, an American writer born on June 24, 1950, brings human and non-human protagonists from many cultures together in the Valdemar books. A second Lackey setting resembles Earth but hides populations of elves, mages, vampires and other mythical beings. Bedlam's Bard follows a young man who works magic through music, SERRAted Edge features elves who race cars, and the Diana Tregarde thrillers star a Wiccan fighting evil. Arrows of the Queen (1987), Arrow's Flight (1987) and Arrow's Fall (1988) are among the listed titles, and Elemental Masters and Five Hundred Kingdoms are further series.

Timothy Zahn

98 books• 26 series

Timothy Zahn, born September 1, 1951, is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy who grew up in Lombard, Illinois. The Star Wars books, above all the Thrawn trilogy, are the core of Zahn's reputation, and those novels are credited with reviving interest in the franchise. Original series include Cobra, Blackcollar, Dragonback, Quadrail, Conquerors Saga, Icarus and Sibyl's War. The catalogue lists 99 books by Zahn, starting with The Blackcollar (1983); Trap Line appeared in 2025 and A Call to Deception is due in 2027.