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Jo Walton · 2003 · UK · fantasy
★ 3.88 Goodreads · 7,253 ratings

When the old dragon Bon Agornin dies, his children quarrel over the inheritance, which by custom means eating his body, in a society of dragons with the manners of a Victorian novel.

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12 books for readers of Tooth and Claw

Heartstone

Elle Katharine White · 2016 · US 99% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 5,677 ratings
shares: courtship, dragon, sisterly, dragons · speculative, easy read

In a world of gryphons and dragons, Aliza Bentaine's family hires a band of monster hunters to protect their land, among them Alastair Daired, a proud dragonrider.

Fireborne

Rosaria Munda · 2019 · US 97% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 38,138 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Aurelian Cycle
shares: dragon, class, romantic, 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 97% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 90,148 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Seraphina
shares: dragon, romantic, 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.

Dragonfall

L. R. Lam · 2023 · US 92% match ★ 3.36 Goodreads · 11,551 ratings
shares: dragon, dragons · speculative, easy read

In a city where dragons have been gone for centuries, Arcady, a young thief, crosses paths with Sorin, the last dragon, who has come into the human world in human form to bring his kind back.

Saint Death's Daughter

C. S. E. Cooney · 2022 · US 92% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 2,340 ratings
shares: sisterly, family, witty · speculative, ironic

Lanie Stones, the youngest of a family of assassins and a necromancer who is allergic to violence, is left alone with the family's debts when her parents are murdered, and her sister comes home to settle them.

Mort

Terry Pratchett · 1987 · UK 92% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 281,821 ratings
Book 4 of 41 in Discworld
shares: satirical, witty, romantic · speculative, easy read

Death takes on an apprentice, a gangly young man named Mort, and when Mort saves a princess who was supposed to die, reality starts to come apart around her.

A Day of Fallen Night

Samantha Shannon · 2023 · UK 92% match ★ 4.31 Goodreads · 63,307 ratings
Book 2 of 2 in The Roots of Chaos
shares: dragon, romantic, dragons · speculative, deep world-building

Five hundred years before The Priory of the Orange Tree, as the fire-breathing wyrms rise, four women in different corners of the world face the coming Grief of Ages.

Warbreaker

Brandon Sanderson · 2009 · US 92% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 307,895 ratings
shares: sisterly, witty, romantic · speculative, deep world-building

A warrior princess and an immortal scholar clash and ally in a standalone fantasy about colour-based magic and political intrigue.

Dragonflight

Anne McCaffrey · 1968 · US 92% match ★ 3.71 Hardcover · 420 ratings
shares: dragon, romantic, 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.

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 1811 · UK 91% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 1,352,000 ratings
shares: courtship, ironic, sisterly · hopeful, ironic

Left with little money after their father's death, the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, face heartbreak and fortune-hunters in Regency England.

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968 · US 91% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 378,902 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Earthsea
shares: speculative, easy read

A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.

Stardust

Neil Gaiman · 1999 · UK 91% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 490,157 ratings
shares: Victorian, romantic · speculative, easy read

In Victorian England, young Tristran Thorn promises to bring the girl he loves a fallen star, and crosses the wall from his village into the land of Faerie, where the star turns out to be a young woman.