Recs if you like The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)...

A compendium of books featuring dragons

According to the ALA, "The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children."

Complete as of August 2026.

Before there were kings, there was the glint of gold in the dark. These are the dragons of the deep places, the riddle-speakers who sleep upon the wealth of fallen empires. They do not value the gold for what it buys, but for the heat it holds. To face them is to face your own greed reflected in a slitted, sulfurous eye.

We call them... the Hoard-Keepers.

I grew up loving me some dragons, and these are probably the reason why.

Winners of the award for "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children."