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Cressida Cowell

How to Train Your Dragon is a series of 15 books by Cressida Cowell: 3,299 pages in the 11 with a known length, about 60 hours of reading. Shown in the numbered order.

15
books
3,299
pages in 11 of them
60 hours
to read those 11
121 days
at 30 minutes a day
1 How to Train Your Dragon 2003 4.1 h 2 How to Be a Pirate 2004 4.1 h 3 How to Speak Dragonese 2005 4.3 h 4 How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse 2006 4.6 h
How to Train Your Viking 2006 length not known
5 How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale 2007 4.7 h 6 A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons 2007 4.0 h 7 How to Ride a Dragon's Storm 2008 5.0 h 8 How to Break a Dragon's Heart 2009 5.9 h
9 How to Steal a Dragon's Sword 2011 length not known
10 How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel 2012 7.6 h
The Day of the Dreader 2012 length not known
11 How to Betray a Dragon's Hero 2013 7.6 h 12 How to Fight a Dragon's Fury 2015 8.7 h
The Incomplete Book of Dragons length not known

Bar height shows length. Books without a number have no number in our records.

The books

  1. 1

    How to Train Your Dragon 2003 4.1 h

    Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived.

  2. 2

    How to Be a Pirate 2004 4.1 h

    Follows the further adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as his Viking training continues and his father leads a stranger and the Hairy Hooligans to…

  3. 3

    How to Speak Dragonese 2005 4.3 h

    Recounts the further escapades of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he continues his Viking training during which he escapes from a boatload of Roman soldiers and searches…

  4. 4

    How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse 2006 4.6 h

    Reluctant hero Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III must rescue his best friend, Fishlegs, from the deadly disease Vorpentitis.

  5. How to Train Your Viking 2006 length not known

  6. 5

    How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale 2007 4.7 h

    Reluctant hero Hiccup is back in the fifth installment of his hilarious misadventures.Someone has stolen the Fire-Stone.

  7. 6

    A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons 2007 4.0 h

    When Hiccup gets lost in the Library Labyrinth the Driller-Dragons and Madguts the Murderous are on the prowl.

  8. 7
  9. 8

    How to Break a Dragon's Heart 2009 5.9 h

    Findus a commis l'irréparable : il a envoyé une lettre d'amour à Capricia O'Strogoth, fille de l'impitoyable chef de la tribu des Mochetrogoths.

  10. 9

    How to Steal a Dragon's Sword 2011 length not known

  11. 10

    How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel 2012 7.6 h

    In exile, and hunted by dragons and humans alike, can Hiccup the Viking find the dragon's jewel and save the world from destruction?

  12. The Day of the Dreader 2012 length not known

  13. 11

    How to Betray a Dragon's Hero 2013 7.6 h

    198 pages : 20 cm

  14. 12

    How to Fight a Dragon's Fury 2015 8.7 h

    The Doomsday of Yule has arrived, and the future of dragonkind lies in the hands of one boy with nothing to show, but everything to fight for.

  15. The Incomplete Book of Dragons length not known

How much is left

After book 1, How to Train Your Dragon about 56 hours left, not counting 4 books of unknown length
After book 2, How to Be a Pirate about 52 hours left, not counting 4 books of unknown length
After book 3, How to Speak Dragonese about 48 hours left, not counting 4 books of unknown length
After book 4, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse about 43 hours left, not counting 4 books of unknown length
After How to Train Your Viking about 43 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length
After book 5, How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale about 39 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length
After book 6, A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons about 35 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length
After book 7, How to Ride a Dragon's Storm about 30 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length
After book 8, How to Break a Dragon's Heart about 24 hours left, not counting 3 books of unknown length
After book 9, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword about 24 hours left, not counting 2 books of unknown length
After book 10, How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel about 16 hours left, not counting 2 books of unknown length
After The Day of the Dreader about 16 hours left, not counting 1 book of unknown length
After book 11, How to Betray a Dragon's Hero about 9 hours left, not counting 1 book of unknown length

Reading the whole series

About 60 hours 29 minutes

11 of 15 books, 3,299 pages. Estimated at 250 words a minute.

121 days (about 18 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.