Books like “Dragonflight”

What to read after “Dragonflight” by Anne McCaffrey: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Eragon
Christopher Paolini · 2002
From the same world: “Dragons” and “Epic Fantasy”
- Dragons
- Epic Fantasy
Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the mountains, and it hatches into a dragon. Chosen as her rider, he is hunted by the king's servants and must leave his village to learn the ways of the Dragon Riders and join the rebels.
2
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Samantha Shannon · 2019
From the same world: “Dragons” and “Epic Fantasy”
- Dragons
- Epic Fantasy
In the East, the queen Sabran must keep the line of Berethnet alive to hold back the Nameless One. In the West, the mage Ead secretly guards her, and in the South a dragon rider's daughter grows up in hiding.
3
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman · 1984
From the same world: “Dragons” and “Epic Fantasy”
- Dragons
- Epic Fantasy
After five years apart, old friends meet again at the Inn of the Last Home as war spreads across Krynn. A plain staff, a cleric without faith and rumours of dragons pull them into a quest to recover the Disks of Mishakal, the lost teachings of the true gods, and to stand against the Dragon Highlords.
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The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1937
From the same world: “Dragons” and “Epic Fantasy”
- Dragons
- Epic Fantasy
Bilbo Baggins likes his quiet, well-stocked hole. Then the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves arrive and sweep him off on a journey to reclaim a treasure from the dragon Smaug, and he finds a courage and a ring he never expected.
5
A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin · 1996
From the same world: “Dragons” and “Epic Fantasy”
- Dragons
- Epic Fantasy
As a long summer holds, the great houses of Westeros scheme for the Iron Throne. When the king asks Lord Eddard Stark of the North to serve as his Hand, Ned travels south with his family into a web of secrets where loyalty costs lives, while beyond the Wall an older threat stirs.
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The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien · 1954
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
- Hidden Heir
Frodo inherits a golden ring that is far more than it seems, and learns it is the master ring of the enemy Sauron. With a company of dwarves, elves, men and a hobbit gardener, he sets out to carry it to the only place where it can be destroyed.
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Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
Violet Sorrengail expected a quiet life among books, not the deadly rider quadrant where cadets die and dragons choose their own riders. Thin and untrained, she survives on wit alone. Her greatest threat is Xaden Riorson, a ruthless wing leader whose attention she never wanted.
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Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros · 2023
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
Violet has survived her first year at Basgiath War College, but the answers she sought only revealed a larger lie. As war closes in, she must decide whom to trust, including a man she loves and cannot fully believe, while the school hides truths even its riders are forbidden to know.
9
The Last Namsara
Kristen Ciccarelli · 2017
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
Asha is the Iskari, a dragon slayer raised by a harsh king to atone for the night her mother died. Feared by her own people, she takes comfort in forbidden old stories and in a kind slave named Torwin. When the dragons offer her another way, everything she was raised to believe starts to break apart.
10
The City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty · 2017
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
Nahri has survived in eighteenth-century Cairo by faking healings and stealing what she can. A careless summoning calls a djinn warrior to her side and drags her to Daevabad, a city of magic and old feuds, where her true blood makes her a threat to everyone around her.
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Dragon Bound
Thea Harrison · 2011
From the same world: “Dragons”
- Dragons
Pia steals an ancient coin and becomes the target of Dragos, the most powerful dragon alive. When he catches her, he recognises her at once as something rare and precious: his mate. Pia carries secrets of her own, and powerful enemies who would gladly see them both dead.
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Pawn of Prophecy
David Eddings · 1982
From the same world: “Epic Fantasy”
- Epic Fantasy
Garion grows up on a quiet Sendarian farm, unaware of the forces watching him. When a mysterious storyteller and a royal sorceress arrive, he is drawn into a search for a stolen artefact, travelling with a company that hides its true purpose from him. The old prophecy of the Belgariad has begun to move.