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Naomi Novik · 2016 · US · fantasy · historical fiction
Book 9 of 9 in Temeraire
★ 4.17 Goodreads · 14,407 ratings

Captain Laurence and Temeraire fight in the final Napoleonic campaigns as the world's dragons reshape the balance of power forever.

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12 books for readers of League of Dragons

Dawn of Wonder

Jonathan Renshaw · 2015 · US 93% match ★ 4.35 Goodreads · 26,179 ratings
shares: adventure, friendship, war · earnest, easy read

A boy enters a legendary military academy where the training is brutal and the mysteries of an ancient power lie buried beneath.

The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow · 2020 · US 93% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 115,907 ratings
shares: alternate history, political, alt history · easy read, warm

In 1893, three estranged sisters arrive separately in the city of New Salem and get swept up in the suffrage movement, which they intend to win with witchcraft people thought had been burned out of the world.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke · 2004 · UK 93% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 263,766 ratings
shares: Regency, alternate history, war, alt history · exterior, speculative

Two rival magicians in Napoleonic England restore magic to Britain, but their competition awakens something dangerous from Faerie.

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark · 2021 · US 93% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 38,090 ratings
shares: alternate history, adventure · easy read, exterior

A queer woman detective investigates a locked-room murder in a 1912 Cairo powered by djinn, automatons, and revolutionary politics.

Dragonflight

Anne McCaffrey · 1968 · US 93% match ★ 3.71 Hardcover · 420 ratings
shares: dragon, adventure, political, dragons · speculative, easy read

On the planet Pern, threatened every two hundred years by Thread falling from the sky, the dragonrider F'lar finds Lessa, the last of her noble line, hiding as a drudge, and brings her to bond with a new queen dragon.

Eragon

Christopher Paolini · 2002 · US 92% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 1,993,222 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Inheritance Cycle
shares: dragon, adventure, dragons · easy read, earnest

Eragon, a farm boy in the remote land of Alagaësia, finds a polished blue stone in the mountains that hatches into a dragon, and finds himself heir to the Dragon Riders, the order destroyed by the tyrant king Galbatorix.

Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · 2004 · US 92% match ★ 4.06 Hardcover · 556 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Codex Alera
shares: adventure, war, political, military · earnest, speculative

In Alera, a realm modelled on Rome where nearly everyone commands elemental spirits called furies, Tavi, a fifteen-year-old shepherd with no furycrafting at all, is caught up in a plot against the First Lord as a horde of Marat threatens his valley.

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon · 2019 · UK 92% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 304,144 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Roots of Chaos
shares: dragon, political, dragons · earnest, speculative

Queen Sabran of Inys must marry and bear an heir to keep an ancient evil chained, while Ead, a secret mage placed at her court, guards her, and across the sea Tané trains to ride the dragons the West has learned to fear.

Blood Song

Anthony Ryan · 2011 · UK 92% match ★ 4.41 Goodreads · 94,249 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Raven's Shadow
shares: war, military · easy read, earnest

A young man with a gift for singing magic discovers that his talent makes him valuable to warlords and dangerous to himself.

Fireborne

Rosaria Munda · 2019 · US 92% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 38,138 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Aurelian Cycle
shares: dragon, war, political, dragons · speculative, easy read

In a city that overthrew its dragonriding aristocracy, Annie, a peasant girl, and Lee, an orphan of the old regime, have risen through the new dragonrider programme, and survivors of the old nobility come back with dragons of their own.

Seraphina

Rachel Hartman · 2012 · Canada 90% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 90,148 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Seraphina
shares: dragon, political, dragons · speculative, easy read

In the kingdom of Goredd, where humans and dragons in human form keep an uneasy forty-year peace, Seraphina, assistant to the court composer, hides the truth about her mother, and a prince is murdered in a way that looks like a dragon's work.

The Way of Kings

Brandon Sanderson · 2010 · US 90% match ★ 4.66 Goodreads · 732,509 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in The Stormlight Archive
shares: epic, war · earnest, speculative

A soldier stripped of his rank and a scholar desperate to save her people bond over ancient magical armour as war engulfs a storm-ravaged world.