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D&D Summer Reads

Love playing Dungeons and Dragons? Miss playing at the library? Read the books that inspired the game, that define the game, or read about adventures to inspire your next adventure!

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  • Looking to learn to play D&D? This is the book for you.
    Book, 2014Renton, WA : Wizards of the Coast LLC, 2014. — YA 793.93 PLAYER'S
  • The best place to read up on the monsters you'll encounter on your adventures.
    Book, 2014Renton, WA : Wizards Of The Coast, 2014. — YA 793.93 MONSTER
  • Looking to run your own D&D game? Start here.
    Book, 2014Renton, WA : Wizards of the Coast, 2014. — YA 793.93 DUNGEON
  • A book for the humble folk hero background. Taran is an assistant pig-keeper and yearns for adventure, until adventure finally calls him.
    Book, 1999New York : H. Holt, c1999. — XF ALEXANDER, LLOYD
  • Monsters aren't all bad! They can make pretty cool classmates.
    Book, 2021New York : Harper, [2021] — XF ROUX, MADELEINE
  • For the druid of the party. Learn more about how the fledgling druid, Doric, comes into her powers.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House Worlds, [2023] — YAF JOHNSTON, E.
  • For the aspiring DM. Looking to step out from her brother's shadow, Riley steps behind the DM screen to run her very own D&D game.
    Book, 2022Philadelphia : Running Press Kids, 2022. — XF FORMATO, JAIME
  • After being dropped off at Ma's house, Jaxon soon discovers a bag full of dragons!
    Book, 2018New York : Random House Books for Young Readers, 2018. — XF ELLIOTT, ZETTA
  • Rangers assemble! After her brother is forced to join a male-only band of hunters called the Narroway Hunt, Ottilie must disguise herself as a boy and join if she's to have any chance of saving him.
    Book, 2018Richmond, Victoria : Hardie Grant Egmont, 2018. — XF WILLIAMS, RHIANNON
  • Book One of the Ranger's Apprentice. Hoping to secure a better future for himself by becoming a knight, Will's life takes an unexpected turn when he instead is selected to be a Ranger's apprentice.
    Book, 2005New York : Philomel Books, 2005. — XF FLANAGAN, JOHN
  • Wizards & Spells

    a Young Adventurer's Guide. Dungeons & Dragons

    Zub, Jim
    Calling all magic users, learn more about the font of magic in the Forgotten Realms and how to make your very own spells!
    Book, 2019California : Ten Speed Press, [2019] — X793.93 ZUB
  • The Monsters & Creatures Compendium

    a Young Adventurer's Guide

    You thought there was only one book of monsters? Think again!
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Ten Speed Press, [2023] — X793.93 MONSTERS
  • Places & Portals

    a Young Adventurer's Guide

    King, Stacy,
    The Forgotten Realms is a big place, you wouldn't want to get too lost in it.
    Book, 2023California : Ten Speed Press, [2023] — X793.93 KING
  • Dragons & Treasures

    a Young Adventurer's Guide

    Zub, Jim,
    It's dungeons & DRAGONS! And boy howdy do we have a lot of dragons here!
    Book, 2022Emeryville, California : Ten Speed Press, [2022] — X793.93 ZUB
  • Warriors & Weapons

    a Young Adventurer's Guide

    Zub, Jim,
    It's dangerous to go alone, take this book and learn about all the different ways and weapons you can defend yourself with!
    Book, 2019New York : Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2019] — X793.93 ZUB
  • A classic story of noble quests, epic battles, and dire consequences. "When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the…
    Book, 1986New York : Philomel Books, c1986. — XF JACQUES, BRIAN
  • The first book in the Mistborn series and helped inspire D&D. Superb worldbuilding and a unique magic system, Kelsier finds himself taking on the powers of a Mistborn and teams up with ragged orphan Vin in a desperate plot to save their world.
    Book, 2006New York : Tor, 2006. — PBSF SANDERSON
  • A book for sorcerers. Before Ged was the greatest sorcerer in the land, he was known as Sparrowhawk who went on to tame a dragon.
    Book, 2012Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2012. — XF LE GUIN, URSULA
  • A goliath in the high fantasy genre, the first book in The Wheel of Time series helped shape the game we know as D&D.
    Book, 1990New York : T. Doherty Associates, 1990. — SF JORDAN, ROBERT