January 16 is Appreciate a Dragon Day

Have you shown appreciation for a dragon today? January 16 is Appreciate a Dragon Day, a celebration of the magnificent fire-breathing beasts that appear in the myths and legends of many cultures across the world.  Here are some books and movies  featuring dragons!

Dragon Books 

  • The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond

  • Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

  • The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

  • Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Allison Goodman

  • Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartmann

  • A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan

  • Earthsea Cycle series by Ursula LeGuin

  • The Mead Mishaps series by Kimberly Lemming

  • The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

  • A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin

  • The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey

  • The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

  • The Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini

  • When the Moon Hatched by Sarah Parker

  • The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song

  • Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

  • The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros

 

Dragon Movies and TV Series

  • Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer

  • Beowulf

  • Blaze

  • Darkest Knight

  • Dragon Wars

  • Dragon’s World: A Fantasy Made Real

  • DragonBallZ 

  • Dragonfire

  • The Dragonheart series

  • Dragonkeeper

  • Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

  • Earthsea

  • Eragon

  • Game of Thrones series

  • Guardians of Time

  • The Hobbit trilogy

  • House of the Dragon series 

  • Reign of Fire

See any titles you’d like? Click here to find and request them in the Four Counties Library System catalog.