Read These 15 Books With Dragons For High-Flying Fantasy Adventure

Samantha Shannon's "The Priory of the Orange Tree" ($14) weaves together several narrative threads in an epic fantasy tale. A queen struggles to produce a daughter to be her heir and hold the queendom together, all while being secretly protected by a lady-in-waiting who is more than she seems. Meanwhile, a dragon rider across the sea has to make a dangerous choice, and powerful forces threaten to plunge the entire land into chaos.