The Other Wind (2001)

Le Guin’s final Earthsea book brings the relationship between humans and dragons into questions of freedom, language and the boundary with death. These beings have purposes beyond serving a rider or guarding a hoard, and the novel asks what humans have misunderstood about them. A quiet, searching choice for readers already familiar with Earthsea, including the bridging story Dragonfly. Begin the sequence earlier if you are meeting this world for the first time.