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What are you reading? Dragon's Library is a catalog of every book I read, along with a short review and a link to purchase the book at Amazon. I primarily review children's books, speculative fiction, classic literature, and non-fiction books on biology
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This Crowded Earth
Author: Robert BlochFirst line: The telescreen lit up promptly at eight a.m. Why you should read this book: Harry Collins lives in an untenable future, one where overcrowding threatens the very struct...
The October Country
Author: Ray BradburyFirst line: May I die before my voicesWhy you should read this book: Welcome to the world of crinkling dead leaves, early dusk, and a blurring between worlds--this is the October C...
I Sing the Body Electric
Author: Ray BradburyFirst line: I arrived in the truck very early in the morning.Why you should read this book: Sixty years after its original publication, the science fiction themes of this classic c...
Bound
Author: Donna Jo NapoliFirst line: Xing Xing squatted by the water, silent and unmoving.Why you should read this book: Another remarkably successful historical novelization of a fairy tale from celebr...
The Mephisto Waltz
Author: Fred Mustard StewartFirst line: The call from Duncan Ely had come at eight o'clock on a Saturday morning, which was Paula Clarkson's morning to sleep.Why you should read this book: Since her h...
Precious and the Boo Hag
Authors: Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean MossAuthor: Precious had been up all night with a stomachache.Why you should read this book: Part folklore, part cautionary tale, and part scary campfir...
Juliet Dove, Queen of Love
Author: Bruce CovilleFirst line: "Hey, Killer! How's your boyfriend?"Why you should read this book: It's a clever reimagining of Greek mythology merged into a young adult novel. Juliet Dove is a shy g...
Tales of the Golden Corpse: Tibetan Folk Tales
Translator: Sandra BensonFirst line: Once upon a time in a small village in Tibet there were seven brothers.Why you should read this book: This new translation of an ancient collection of Tibetan folk...
Doorways in the Sand
Author: Roger ZelaznyFirst line: Lying, left hand for a pillow, on the shingled slant of the roof, there in the shade of the gable, staring at the cloud-curdles in the afternoon's blue pool, I seemed ...
It's a Bird
Author: Steven T. SeagleFirst line: It didn't look like the rest of the letters on the report.Why you should read this book: If it's a superhero comic, it transcends the boundaries of the medium in th...
The Books of Magic
Author: Neil GaimanFirst line: "I don't want anything to do with it."Why you should read this book: Young Timothy Hunter is on the cusp of the most important decision of his life, whether or not to st...
A Wind in the Door
Author: Madeleine L'EngleFirst line: "There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden."Why you should read this book: Meg Murphy and her interesting brother Charles Wallace, are back in Part 2 of the...
Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast
Author: Jane YolenFirst line: The pig fell down the rabbit-hole, turning snout over tail and squealing as it went.Why you should read this book: Forget its designation as a children's book; this is a ...
Ignis
Author: Gina WilsonFirst line: Ignis lived with his sister, Flamma, and Grandragon.Why you should read this book: Here's your standard finding-your-talent, heading-onto-the-open-road, making-new-frie...
A Promise Is a Promise
Authors: Robert Munsch & Michael KusugakFirst line: On the very first nice day of spring Allashua said, "I'm going to go fishing. I'm going to go fishing in the ocean. I'm going to go fishing in the c...
Night Shift
Author: Stephen KingFirst line: Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.Why you should read this book: Twenty classic King stories, many of which were made into movies, some of which didn't even ...
George's Secret Key to the Universe
Authors: Lucy and Stephen HawkingFirst line: Pigs don't just vanish, thought George as he stood staring into the depths of the very obviously empty pigsty.Why you should read this book: When one of th...
The Invisible Princess
Author: Faith RinggoldFirst line: Long ago, in the tiny Village of Visible, way down in the Deep South, there lived two slaves called Mama and Papa Love.Why you should read this book: In a story rich ...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 1
Author: Alan MooreFirst line: Greetings, children of vanquished and colonised nations the world o'er.Why you should read this book: With inimitable tongue-in-cheek genius, Moore delivers a delightful ...
Satan in Goray
Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerFirst line: In the year 1648, the wicked Ukrainian hetman, Bogdan Chmelnicki, and his followers besieged the city of Zamosc but could not take it, because it was strongly ...
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
Author: C. S. LewisFirst line: I am old now and have not much to fear from the anger of gods.Why you should read this book: Lewis retells the ancient myth of Eros and Psyche, in novel form, from the p...
The Watchmen
Author: Alan MooreFirst line: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach.Why you should read this book: Quite possibly the finest and most influential graphic novel of all time, Al...