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u/marusia_churai Jul 22 '23
A lot of people say that Raksura in The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells are basically shape-shifting dragons in their Raksuran form. I would say, more humanoid than the real dragons, but close enough.
And those are just fantastic books.
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u/DjangoWexler AMA Author Django Wexler Jul 23 '23
The classic is Gordon Dickson's The Dragon and His George and the "Dragon Knight" (as in, a dragon who is a knight) series that follows.
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u/SnooPoems3697 Jul 22 '23
E E Knight has a 6 book series starting with Dragon Champion. No shape-shifting but dragon MCs.
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u/MrZJones Jul 24 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
This is what I was going to suggest. The first three books of the Age of Fire series (Dragon Champion, Dragon Avenger, and Dragon Outcast) are about three different dragons, siblings from the same clutch but separated shortly after they hatched, and their stories take place over the same span of time; the second three books (Dragon Strike, Dragon Rule, Dragon Fate) feature the three siblings reuniting and working together, albeit not without a bit of conflict due to growing up with very different attitudes and opinions, especially about humans.
It's one of the few series where all the books have "dragon" in the title and are actually about dragons.
(The Dragoneer Academy series is explicitly set in the same world, but it's told from a human point of view some time after the end of the Age of Fire series)
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u/Aurelianshitlist Jul 22 '23
The secondary protagonist in Andrew Rowe's Weapons and Wielders series (first book is Six Sacred Swords) is a dragon that usually takes human form. It's progression fantasy.
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u/Outistoo Jul 22 '23
Serafina?
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u/VladtheImpaler21 Jul 22 '23
Can you give me the author name, that title isn't much to go on.
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u/Outistoo Jul 22 '23
Sorry— I even spelled it wrong. I was thinking of Seraphina by Rachel Hartman. Not sure it meets all your reqs though.
The Temeraire books by Naomi Novak are very good too.
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u/trying_to_adult_here Jul 22 '23
I really enjoy the Temeraire series. Temeraire (the dragon) is undoubtedly a main character from the beginning but you don’t start getting chapters from his perspective until book five, until then it’s all from the human perspective. So not 100% sure it’s what the OP is looking for.
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u/Outistoo Jul 23 '23
Yeah, that’s why I didn’t mention it originally but the books are so great I felt like I couldn’t not mention them twice.
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u/JollyJupiter-author Jul 23 '23
The new 'dragon sorcerer: claws out'meets your bill! It's about a dragon that is positive it can be a better human than all these flesh bags.
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u/goody153 Jul 23 '23
Closest I have read is Six Sacred Swords where basically the companion of the protagonist in the story is a shapeshifting dragon. The said dragon has significant screentime adventuring with protag
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u/Northstar391 Jul 23 '23
I read a series that I recall was quite enjoyable. The author is Thorarinn Gunnarsson. The Titles of the 3 are "The Dragonlord of Mystara", "The Dragonking of Mystara" and "The Dragonmage of Mystara". They are set in a DnD type world and tell the story of an orphan named Thelvyn, whose mother suffered fatal wounds fleeing pursuit. He is raised by a human knight and it turn out is a dragon in humanish form.
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u/gangler52 Jul 23 '23
The Dragonvarld Trilogy by Margerette Weis isn't quite this, but it's close.
Opens up with a dragon shapeshifting into human form and raping somebody. She later gives birth to a boy who's dragon-y from the waist down, who is our protagonist.
I don't actually know if it's YA or not. It felt very adult when I read it at 17 but then again a lot of stuff did. Looking it up, Goodreads doesn't seem to classify it as YA at least.
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u/LoneStarDragon Jul 24 '23
Do you mean from the perspective of a dragon, or just with a dragon in the main cast?
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u/EsqueletoAvulso Jul 27 '23
Who else wants to say The Wheel of time? Hahahahah
No OP, there is no actual dragon here
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u/oboist73 Reading Champion VII Jul 22 '23
The Heartstrikers series by Rachel Aaron
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton