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  1. 1Fireborne (2019)Fireborne (2019) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2019Start here if the dragon riders’ training and loyalties mattered as much to you as their dragons. Annie and Lee came from opposite sides of a revolution and grew up together afterward. Now they’re competing to lead the same dragonriding fleet. The contest has teeth because either of them could have…0
  2. 2To Shape a Dragon's Breath (2023)To Shape a Dragon's Breath (2023) 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2023Anequs bonds with a hatchling and has to learn the colonizers’ rules of dragon handling at an academy that doubts she belongs. If you liked watching Violet work out how to survive rules designed around other people, you’ll recognize that pressure. The book gives the bond and the struggle over whose…0
  3. 3A Deadly Education (2020)A Deadly Education (2020) 8.1/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2020You can get the sensation of surviving your education from the Scholomance alone. Monsters can get at El and her classmates, and other students can be just as hard to trust. Pick it for a heroine who has to decide when to admit she needs help, with a far more prickly running commentary than…0
  4. 4The Serpent & the Wings of Night (2022)The Serpent & the Wings of Night (2022) 7.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2022Try this for the version of Violet and Xaden’s tension where rivalry takes place in a formal contest. Oraya is human in a vampire court, and her survival in the Kejari depends on an alliance with Raihn, who is trying to win it himself. The tournament keeps giving each of them a practical reason to…0
  5. 5So Let Them Burn (2024)So Let Them Burn (2024) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2024Faron has already helped free her island from an empire of dragon riders when her sister Elara forms a bond with an enemy dragon. Try this if you want a bond that creates a problem for the whole family. The sisters’ loyalty has the urgency a romance might have in another book.0
  6. 6Ascendant (2020)Ascendant (2020)Published Jan 1, 2020Holt cooks for a dragon-riding order until he rescues an egg that the dragons intend to destroy. The hatchling is blind and the bond gives Holt a kind of power nobody expects. Choose it for a pair who have to discover their own way to train instead of stepping into an established rider’s place.0
  7. 7Dragon Rider (2023)Dragon Rider (2023)Published Jan 1, 2023Jai escapes a coup with a dragon egg after years as a hostage to the empire that killed his father. If you hoped a dragon bond might matter beyond the riders’ own ranks, try this first volume for the chance it gives a former captive to contest who gets to wield power.0
  8. 8Dragonflight (1968)Dragonflight (1968) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1968Lessa forms a telepathic bond with a golden dragon when Pern needs every rider it can get against the falling Thread. Read this for the old-school sweep of a rider and dragon becoming a fighting pair. The book puts leadership and survival at the center of their leap into the air.0
  9. 9His Majesty's Dragon (2006)His Majesty's Dragon (2006) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2006A British naval officer and a newly hatched dragon have to learn aerial warfare together against Napoleon. Try it for an intelligent partner with his own ideas about loyalty. The deliberate, formal friendship between Laurence and Temeraire is the point, with the Napoleonic setting giving their…0
  10. 10Dragon's Blood (1982)Dragon's Blood (1982) 9.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1982Jakkin steals a hatchling and raises it out of sight, hoping he can win enough in the fighting pits to buy his freedom. The book is closest to Fourth Wing when one young person’s future depends on gaining a dragon’s trust. Expect pit fights and training in place of courtship.0