Dragonlance Novel Recommendations

[Wolf72]

The 2 books I recommend are the ones about the draconians, The Doom Brigade and Draconian Measures.

I second this motion!

also try Stormblade (by nancy berberick)

 

[Jarval]

I'll third the vote for The Legend of Huma. I'm also very fond of the collections of short stories. While they can be rather patchy, they give a good sense of a living world with more going on in it than just the major events.

 

[Femerus the Gnecro]

I thought that the Lord Toede book was funny as hell.

Also there are the two books by Weis and Perrin, Brothers in Arms and... the other one.

The meetings sextet is adequite, if not fantastic. Most of the books with novellas by Weis/Hickman are worth buying simply for the novellas themselves.

On the bad end, the Defenders of Magic trilogy I found to be pretty boring, but nothing quite compares to what is quite possibly the worst DL book ever written:

Dalamar the Dark.

This book is so utterly devoid of quality that I felt like burning it while scrubbing my eyes to rid myself of its taint.

It's really, really bad.

-F

edit: Oh yeah... Legend of Huma is very good as well.

 

[Phebius]

Whatever you do, don't read any of the Preludes series unless you're a big fan of two-dimentional caricatures of the Companions with some bad contridictions with the original trilogies mixed in with lovely plots about Sturm and Kitiara flying to one of Krynn's moons and recognizing draconians 5 years before he saw one for the first time.

 

[Ranger REG]

Put me down for The Legend of Huma.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Put me down for The Legend of Huma.

I guess that would make me the fifth.... Kaz, the Minotaur (its squeal) is pretty awesome too.

 

[Ristamar]

I'd recommend, in this order:

• The Legend of Huma
• Chronicles (Dragons of Autumn Twilight/Winter Night/Spring Dawning)
• Legends (Time/War/Test of the Twins)
• The Second Generation
• Dragons of Summer Flame

If you're going to dip into the Age of Mortals, you should probably read:

• Dawning of a New Age
• Day of the Tempest
• Eve of the Maelstrom

The latter 3 aren't particularly great, but they'll bring you up to speed with the major powers and struggles in Krynn, and more importantly, they're a good lead in for:

• Dragons of a Fallen Sun
• Dragons of a Lost Star
• Dragons of a Vanished Moon

I never read most of the "sidestory" novels, but The Soulforge and Brothers in Arms (both detailing Raistlin and Caramon's mercenary days) were quite enjoyable.

EDIT: And whoever said Dalamar the Dark is awful is absolutely correct, which is a shame since I really like the character.

 

[qstor]

I believe that the Second Generation contains a novella version of Dragons of Summer Flame. The novel Dragon's of Summer Flame came later.

Mike

 

[Starman]

I believe that the Second Generation contains a novella version of Dragons of Summer Flame. The novel Dragon's of Summer Flame came later.

Mike

Actually, it has several short stories that lead into Dragons of a Summer Flame. There is not a novella of DoaSF in Second Generation.

Starman

 

[Maraxle]

I only got about halfway through the first trilogy because I didn't really like it very much. I think it was the style of their writing that bothered me. Does it get better after the first few chapters of the second book? I didn't like the first book, but decided to give the second one a try since everyone else seems to love the series. The second one appeared to be more of the same and didn't really pique my interest much.