List of Dragonlance novels


This is a list of the published novels set in the fantasy world of Dragonlance, which was originally created as a setting for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game.

Adventures in Krynn

Anthologies

The Dragonlance short story collections are mainly divided into the two publishing lines Tales and Dragons Anthologies. With most recent collections the dividing line has been somewhat erased.
In the following are the short story collections listed in chronological order of their publishing dates.

Tales I

Tales II

Although some versions refer to these three books as the Tales II trilogy, others refer to them belonging to the original Tales trilogy, continuing from volume IV.
TitleReleaseISBNNotes
The Reign of IstarApril 1992
The CataclysmJuly 1992
  • Edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  • Featuring short stories by Michael Williams & Teri Williams, Mark Anthony, Todd Fahnestock, Nick O'Donohoe, Richard A. Knaak, Dan Parkinson, Roger E. Moore, Paul B. Thompson & Tonya R. Carter, Douglas Niles, and Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
    • The War of the LanceNovember 1992
  • Edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  • Featuring short stories by Michael Williams, Roger E. Moore, Nick O'Donohoe, Dan Parkinson, Jeff Grubb, Nancy Varian Berberick, Mark Anthony, Richard A. Knaak, Douglas Niles, and Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

    • Dragons Anthologies

    Tales of the Fifth Age

    Tales/Dragons from the War of Souls/World of Krynn

    These three collections are presented as a trilogy by their outer appearance as well as by their title constructions.
    TitleReleaseISBNNotes
    The Search for Magic: Tales from the War of SoulsOctober 2001
    • Edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
    • Featuring short stories by Brian Murphy, Nancy Varian Berberick, Linda P. Baker, Nick O'Donohoe, Paul B. Thompson, Jeff Crook, Kevin T. Stein, Jean Rabe, Richard A. Knaak, Don Perrin, Donald Bingle
    The Players of Gilean: Tales from the World of KrynnFebruary 2003
  • Edited by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  • Featuring novellas by Douglas Niles, Fergus Ryan, Paul B. Thompson, Donald J. Bingle, Richard A. Knaak, Aron Eisenberg & Jean Rabe
    • The Search for Power: Dragons from the War of SoulsMay 2004
  • Edited by Margaret Weis
  • Featuring short stories by Mark Sehestedt, Richard A. Knaak, Nancy Varian Berberick, John Helfers, Jamie Chambers, Dan Willis, Douglas W. Clark, Jean Rabe, Jeff Grubb, Lucien Soulban, Miranda Horner, Kevin T. Stein, Paul B. Thompson, and Douglas Niles

    • Further Dragons Anthologies

    Best Of Anthologies

    Anvil of Time

    The Chronicles Trilogy

    New editions:
    This series fills in the gaps in the Chronicles trilogy storyline.
    These novels are adaptions of the original Chronicles Trilogy to a format specifically targeted at young readers. See also the section of Young Adult Readers Novels in this article.
    The story of Dhamon Grimwulf, one of the main antagonists. The first series coincided with and had its logo, but it was dropped from the reprint and the second series.

    Dragons of a New Age

    The story is continued in The Lake of Death in Age of Mortals series.

    Dwarf Home

    Although some versions refer to these three books as the Heroes II trilogy, others refer to them belonging to the original Heroes trilogy, continuing from volume IV.
    Kang's Regiment is first introduced in the short stories The First Dragonarmy Bridging Company and The First Dragonarmy Engineer's Secret Weapon from The Dragons of Krynn and The Dragons at War respectively. The short story To Convince the Righteous of the Right from Heroes and Fools bridges the events between The Doom Brigade and Draconian Measures.
    This series serves more as soucebooks and accessories for the role-playing game, rather than novels.
    New editions:
    This series continues the story of Linsha Majere from The Clandestine Circle. Continued in the short story The Eight from Dragons of Time.
    This story of this series focuses on the first meetings of the heroes and the foundations of their friendships, and predates Preludes series.
    This series' story take place the five years before the beginning of Chronicles trilogy.
    Although some versions refer to these three books as the Preludes II trilogy, others refer to them belonging to the original Preludes trilogy, continuing from volume IV. This is because they were originally published as two trilogies and later renumbered as one six-book series.
    Note: Knights of the Crown, Knights of the Sword, Knights of the Rose and The Wayward Knights tell a continuing story, although each novel stands on its own.

    Young Adult Chronicles

    These novels are adaptions of the original Chronicles Trilogy to a format specifically targeted at young readers.
    The following two books are crossovers in which Lord Soth and others are transported to the Ravenloft world.
    Six novels set in the Spelljammer universe were published by TSR before TSR was incorporated into Wizards of the Coast. The novels were interconnected and formed "The Cloakmaster Cycle". The novels tell the story of Teldin Moore, a 'groundling' farmer on Krynn who has a powerful and apparently cursed magical cloak that was given to him. The series puts the character on a quest, and showcases the Spelljammer universe.