Thanks, it is! Book club is definitely a highlight of my week. :)

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Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (first in the Nsibidi Scripts Series)

Thanks for the heads up :)

And both authors have openly hateful politics so that’s an other point in common.

just to comment that there is a tv mini series of the city and the city

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7205264/

for something dealing with the unseen they did a pretty good job imho :)

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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I think the "Tiffany Aching" subseries might be a good start. It is very similar to Harry Potter after all, only much better ☺️

Fablehaven

It's not the same as Harry Potter. You probably won't get the same emotional connection with the story being told, but it's fun and enjoyable.

The Dresden Files. If you want a darker, more mature book about a wizard named Harry then this is the one. Great action, memorable characters, and a sense of humor without losing the seriousness. Also, an in-depth magic system and lore. It has everything, really.

Came here to say this! I love HP but Percy Jackson is my favorite series of all time. Full stop. And i’m 22 and have read a lot of series!

Don’t have assignments anymore but I pretty much always have a fiction and nonfiction book going at the same time.

So great to hear you're getting into fiction! Non-fiction is wonderful too, but bringing in fic just adds so much depth to reading. And for a rec, I loved the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman.

have my upvote

I’m so happy to see that there’s no hatred in this comment section. Harry Potter gets so much hate nowadays (for reasons that are just plain dumb) and I was worried there might be those here

I started my way in reading after a long break with Terry Pratchett's Mort book. Definitely worth to read.

The Time Travelers by Linda Buckley-Archer & Outlander by Diana Gabaldon are good too. Aaand Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card. Also heads up all of these are series so you’ll have plenty to read :)

Pendragon by D.J. MacHale. Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. The golden compass by Philip Pullman. The lost years of Merlin by T.A Barron. The Warrior Heir by Chima. Dragon Champion by E.E Knight. Warrior cats by Erin Hunter. Fable Haven by Brandon Mull. I read all of these to try and fill the Potter void lol, the ones that filled in best were Pendragon & Discovery of Witches, but all of these are good reads.

The inheritance cycle. First book is called Eragon. I actually read this just after Harry Potter and I was in love. Such an amazing story. Similar in aspect that the protagonist in the book is barely a teenager and it’s PG to the end of the book where he’s a young adult and he becomes much more brutal.

Hmm, a bit unsure over the recommendation of starting from "The Color of Magic." I would go from "Guards, Guards!", "Wyrd Sisters," "Mort," or "Small Gods." Or just pick up whatever is available and start from there

Thank you!

Other people have mentioned this, but I would recommend Percy Jackson, Lockwood & Co., Discworld series, Bartimaeus trilogy, & His Dark Materials trilogy

I was like you. At one time the 7 Potter books were the 7 best books I had ever read. But gradually other books came into contention. I don't know if it is true for you, but for me I loved HP books 4 and 3 most of the 7.

The Percy Jackson books were okay. Among the 5 books in that series I gave only one of them 5 stars on Goodreads. Harry Potter was easy to read yet was genius. Keep that in mind when you try recommendations like The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (the series rests on satire and nods to Shakespeare and other literature).

I recommend The Riyria Revelations series by Michael J. Sullivan (not the Riyria Chronicles! That is a prequel). The 3rd book in the Riyria Revelations, called the Heir of Novron is the only Fantasy book that I compare to HP books. It is very good and you will experience that familiar excitement that one gets out of Rowling's HP books.

Then there are books that are great but for different reasons than what was true for HP.

E.g. I read Perdido Street Station by China Mieville and its vocab is wonderful and the plot excellent. The book seems like Fantasy of a different kind. Maybe Steampunk? The sequel to PSS is called The Scar. I am going to read it at the end of this year. I hear it is almost as good as PSS. Also there is The City & the City, by CM again.

I have loved nonfiction books too. I recommend Means of Ascent by Robert A Caro. It is larger than life and reads like fiction (in ideas rather than style). I don't recommend you horror books, so not Stephen King. Except maybe for Desperation, The Shining, and Pet Sematary (that's how it's spelled). Don't try 11/22/63, by King. I don't advise it to you for now.

If you want simple writing with twists galore and some humour thrown in, please read The Jaine Austen mystery series by Laura Levine but only books 2-9. They are among the best books I have ever read. Good luck.