I've read some of the earlier books many years ago, but I didn't know about all these newer ones. Downloaded the entire collection and it looks like a lifetime of reading.
Very informative video. I read the Chronicles as a teenager and enjoyed them immensely. I'm planning on going back into it in chronological order, and watching this was very helpful. Thank you. All that being said, you sort of neglected to mention the Taladas trilogy (possibly because you never heard of it). Those books take place on Taladas, another continent on Krynn, and while it isn't a core trilogy, I wouldn't really call it supplemental either. Taladas is on the other side of the planet from Ansalon, and the trilogy is its own self-contained story. A good read which shows an entirely different part of Krynn, with very little connection to any of the other stories because of its remote location. People who live in Taladas don't know Ansalon exists, and vice versa, much like the Old and New Worlds before Columbus.
I read a bunch of these books a couple of years ago in high school. I was looking to do another read through but I couldn't quite remember what books go where. Very useful video, thank you.
Thanks. That was a very understandable description of the entire series and I appreciate you taking the time to explain it all. I really got a lot out of this video.
This was absolutely fascinating! I saw the Dragonlance name in a local library. There were TONS of them and I had no idea where to begin!! Then I picked up books 1-3 (The first trilogy) at a random sale. I was excited, but had no idea if I was missing something in the beginning or need to buy more at the end. Thank you!! Brilliant!! Have you read any RA Salvatore Forgotten Realms? That's another very complicated series!! Thanks again!
This is a great guide to the series, I had bought Dragon's of Autumn Twilight about 10 years ago when I was 15 but never read it because I believed wrongly that it wasn't the first book because they already knew each other. I can't wait to begin reading the series and can't wait to find out what they found out about the world thanks for not spoiling anything.
Thanks for this video! I wish there was more content on Dragonlance series online. I listened to preludes and wondered how certain character names are spelled and there is no character lists online, no wiki, nothing. Oh the horror! And here we are thinking the internet has and abundance of information on everything
Glad it was helpful! :) I think the issue with the online presence is that Wizards of the Coast isn't doing anything with the IP anymore. Now gamong material or novels. Most of the interesting stuff happened, before everything was on the internet. I can recommend the site Dragonlance Nexus (dragonlancenexus.com/) which I used as research material to fill in some gaps in my DL-Knowledge. Hope that helps you as well.
Oh, so nostalgic to hear talk about Dragonlance! I didn't actually know that the series is on hiatus currently and no new works are being published - I thought it'd go on forever, haha! The Lost Chronicles sounds highly suspicious, and I don't think I'll ever read them for fear that they might ruin the Chronicles. I read the Chronicles & Legends and the two Second Generation books as a kid. Then, because Raistlin is my fave character, I also read the two Raistlin books by Weis, and the Brothers Majere book from the Preludes. From the Meetings Sextet, I think I've only read the sixth book, The Companions, because I wanted to read about the whole crew together. :) And then a few random supplemental books here and there, like Murder in Tarsis.
+Maija Reads I just finished the first Lost Chronicles books and read it after Dragons of Autumn Twilights. I worked well. I starts immediately after the end of DoAT and gives some depth to the events between Chronicles 1 and 2. I'd still recommend to read the Chronicles first without them though, because they foreshadow a lot of things to happen. Back in the day I read the Chronicles, Legends, the Second Generation and Dragons of the Summer Flame from the main story arc. I've read the first three Tales books which are all short-story collections. I also read the six Warriors books, 3 of those are a trilogy of their own, 2-3 preludes (I think the ones about Tas, Flint and the Majeres), the Defenders of Magic trilogy, the Kender, Gully Dwarves and Gnomes book and the two books about Kang's regiment, which features a draconian regiment. I also think that I've read the villain book about Kishanth and some of the Heroes books like the one about Huma and the one about Kaz, the Minotaur. So there is still plenty of books for me that I haven't read and at the moment I have a strong urge to get back to the world.
This was great! I remember reading Dragonlance books when I was younger and have a sort of nostalgia connected to them although I can't remember much (especially have fond memories of The Raistlin Chronicles). I've slowly collected the majority of the classic core novels and hope to read them soon! :)
So excited to start this. I like that you can get more story whenever you want about whatever aspects you want. I can already tell that I'm going to want to go back and read the prequel novels after finishing the main ones to this era.
I've read almost all of the Dragonlance books written by Margaret Weis (most of them co-written with Tracy Hickman and some co-written with Don Perrin and some written by just Margaret Weis). The only ones I haven't read are The Doom Brigade and Draconian Measures (the Kang's Regiment duology). Those are co-written with Don Perrin. I have them now though so I will read them soon. The Lost Chronicles doesn't just take place between the first and second book in the Chronicles. The first book does, but the second takes place parallel to Dragons of Winter Night and the third parallel to Dragons of Spring Dawning. So you if you want to read them with the Chronicles you should read "Autumn", "Dwarven", "Winter", "Highlord", "Spring", "Hourglass". I haven't read any of the books written by other authors. I will probably not get into all of those... ever :p By the way, have you seen the animated film Dragons of Autumn Twilight? I think it's an ok adaptation.
+Awkward Book Geek I think I have read the two Kang's books and they were fine. Thanks for letting me know about The Lost Chronicles. I wasn't aware of how far spread they are. I've read a couple of the other authors. Mostly the Heroes, Warriors and Tales books, the Defenders of Magic trilogy and the odd standalones from Preludes or Villains. I've never really progressed into Fifth Age, with the exception of 1-2 books or the Age of Mortal, but maybe I'll do it this time around. I've seen the movie once, maybe 7-8 years ago and also found it to be an okay adaptation.
I was so thankfull for my library because they had a printed out the chronological reading order (and if it was in finnish or in english because sometimes the order of translating does not make any sense) of different fantasy series. It was immensely helpfull. That said i am suprised how much of this series (even the core ones) i havent read. I thought i had gone trough more of it when i was a teenager. Don't remember much either way. I'm putting this video aside so when i get to rereading dragonlance i can come back to check the order. Thanks for your effort.
+Laventelia Great, that this guide was helpful for you. :) The series is really vast and by making this video I also realized how many of the books, even from the ones I own, I still haven't read.
Hi! So it's funny because I found my lance dragon books at my parent's . I read them around 2000-2001 when I was ~13 and I made the mistake you talked about in this video : I have the first trilogy of the chronicle then I have dragons of a summer flame and I have the first book of the next trilogy : dragons of a fallen sun. I have no memories of these books except that I know I read them so I guess I gave up after fallen sun because I was confused... 15years after I know why !! Ahaha so I might actually pick those up again and buy the twins trilogy (I know it's not the actual name I just already forgot the good one lol) and dragon lance second generation. That might make everything much simpler for me to get to the other two books that I have...thank you very much for this video, a 15 years mystery has been lifted !
+metamorphoses Oh, it's great that I could clear that up. Hope you'll enjoy the books, when you get to them. The Dragonlance Legends is the series that focuses more on the twins.
Still waiting on new books. I've been collecting Dragonlance for a while now. I read all the main stuff years ago but a lot of the supplimental stuff I hadn't. So I've been slowly making my way through the series Chronologically. I'm not far in. In the middle of the Elven Nations trilogy.
The original chronicles (Dragons of Spring,Autumn,Winter, etc) are really great and than you can go to the latest books, the Lost Chronicles. Everything in between is mixed plot lines, except that the Dragonlace world itself is involved in Cataclysm so therefore there should be a timeline. If there was a Dragonlance book timeline, than you could read the books in any order.
"you can go to the latest books, the Lost Chronicles" You could call them the last books since only one or two novels were published after The Lost Chronicles. ". . . than you could read" *then ". . . and than you can . . ." *then "If there was a Dragonlance book timeline" There is one. It took ten seconds to find with Google. www.dlnexus.com/products/chronological.aspx
200? OMG! I am just glad I got out after book 2, I think. My brother had about 20 of them already when I read the first book. I read it and was so disappointed that the story didn't really have an ending. And when I picked up the second probably a year later I forgot ost of the characters, lol. Well, to my excuse I think I was 14 or so ;)
+1book1review It's a rough estimate. It might be "only" 130 or 170, but there are a lot. But most are supplemental books. That was something I always liked about Dragonlance. If you were interested in a certain aspect you could go more in-depth, but you didn't have to.
I feel more could have been written (By Weis & Hickman) to bridge the gap between the Chaos War and the War of Souls. I have tried numerous times to read Jean Rabe's 'Dawning of a New Age' trilogy, but I just cannot get into it. The writing style is too distant from Weis & Hickman's superb narrative.
I've only read the classic core novels. I haven't read the Lost Chronicles nor the War of the Souls books even though I have them. I hope to eventually get to The Death Gate Cycle books too by Weis and HIckman.
+Common Touch of Fantasy It's the same for me. I have only read things from War of the Lance era, with the exception of 1-2 Fifth Age books and some classical titles. I haven't even read the Meeting Sixtet and only 2 of the Preludes. I think I've read all og the Heroes, Warriors and Tales books + The Defenders of Magic trilogy and the Raistlin books. Then some Kender and Dwarf books. From the Death Gate Cycle I've read the first 3 books, but never finished it. That's on my agenda as well.
I've read all of the Dragonlance books you mentioned and the death date cycle is really good as long as you remember it does not take place on Krynn but in an alternate land. the books are all amazing and worth reading. I'm currently reading their newest work which is the third book in the dragonship's of vindras titled doom of the dragons
I've seen and heard this comment a lot. I read some novels after Summer Flame, but not many. I think that was the beginning of the end for Dragonlance, and the final nail in the coffin was when Weis and Hickman killed Takhisis and made Paladine mortal. Taking away magic and the gods and then putting them back didn't help, nor did the crappy movie that will never have a sequel. Now we're in 2017, seven years after the last Dragonlance novel was published and roughly a decade after the last Dragonlance gaming material was published.
Dragonlance will appeal to you, only if you have under three braincells, and glue sniffing habit. The worst of it is the inane attempt at plot. It is very detailed, but also, completely illogical. In the first pages of the book I tried reading, an official, called the Theocrat in-universe, wants a magic stick that is in the hands of some pure paragon of pureness named Moonglow. Instead of calling for the guards and stalling M-glow and her newfound palls, he starts yelling, then puts his hand into the fire, only then yells for the guards but leaves before they show…um…?? Which makes it pretty easy on the "good" guys. Meanwhile; this poor man's Gandalf named Fitzpan is telling "meaningful" stories how men should be grateful to the gods for protecting them…except that what men need protecting from IS ONE OF THE GODS. Bit of a head scratcher. Worse yet, the currency in the world is iron, and yet, no one bothers to strip the steel weapons from any fallen character, that money is simply allowed to rust. Its pretty stupid to use a metal that rusts for currency in the first place, of course…also we have names right out of a 1970's porno like Sturm, and Moonglow. Characters that not only have no character development, but really no personality to develop. Mostly, it is just that the "good" characters want to kill the bad characters, and the "bad" characters want to find some kind of magic doodads. It's a book series for people generally too stupid to appreciate reading.
