# Ok, so I am ready to move on from Harry Potter books **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257 "2008-04-28T19:00:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/21 "2008-04-28T23:27:25Z")
Diane Duane’s _Young Wizard’s_ series. Starts with _So You Want to be a Wizard_ -I really like these. And on preview, it’s been mentioned already. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/22 "2008-04-29T00:32:08Z")
Check out the [Thursday Next](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday_Next) series. ---
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/23 "2008-04-29T00:38:41Z")
Anything by Terry Pratchett is brilliant. If you’re leaning more to kid lit, go with his Bromeliad Trilogy- Truckers, Diggers, and Wings. It’s not witches and wizards, but it is fantasy/sci-fi, and it’s amazing. Also in kid lit are some of the books set in Discworld (3 about a young witch; one about The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents); the rest of Discworld isn’t kid lit, just amazing. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/24 "2008-04-29T11:41:39Z")
Not really witches and wizards, but the [Edge Chronicles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_Chronicles) by Stewart/Riddell are my favourite. Then there’s _Spiderwick._ Again not w&w, but in the ballpark ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/25 "2008-04-29T11:57:21Z")
These are all really great! I’ve put in requests via the library system and shall see which comes in first. Harry Dresden looks interesting… ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/26 "2008-04-29T12:32:02Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] These are all really great! I’ve put in requests via the library system and shall see which comes in first. Harry Dresden looks interesting… [/QUOTE] Butcher is one of my favorite authors right now. He has a more traditional fantasy series that is quite good too. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/27 "2008-04-29T12:32:45Z")
Dianna Wynne Jones thirded. If you want a series, then the Chrestomanci books. Many of the others - Eight Days of Luke, Dogsbody, and particularly The Ogre Downstairs are extremely fine fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/28 "2008-04-29T12:54:09Z")
If you want something a bit more adult, try George R. R. Martin’s _A Game of Thrones_. Warning: the series is unfinished…but it’s really good. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/29 "2008-04-29T17:12:59Z")
I’ve found the _Aragon_ series quite enjoyable. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/30 "2008-04-29T17:17:08Z")
Do you mean Eragon? ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/31 "2008-04-29T17:22:03Z")
Why yes, I did! Either way, still a fine series. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/32 "2008-04-29T17:49:13Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Still the standard, which will probably put eve the HP books into their proper perspective, is LeGuin’s \*Earthsea \*series. Yeah, OK, they’re books about a young wizard and his schooling (years before Rowling ever had an inkling), and many people dismiss them as children’s literature, but they’re among the greatest books I have ever read. [/QUOTE] I’ve said it here before, but I believe that\* A Wizard of Earthsea \* is the most perfect fantasy novel ever written. Not necessarily the best (although it is very, very good), just \*perfect \*: no word is extraneous, no paragraph is out of place. It’s shorter than the prologues of many fantasy volumes, and it contains more than most series. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/33 "2008-04-29T22:02:02Z")
[QUOTE=Gadarene] On the other hand, I enthusiastically second all of Diana Wynne Jones books (except the Dalemark Quartet; I never really got into those) and the Bartimaeus trilogy. [/QUOTE] I ducked into the library today and found the first installment of Bartimaeus triology! ( Oh rapturous joy!) Now, if I could get my children to leave me alone so I can get into the book. or I suppose I could read it too them… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/34 "2008-05-01T19:46:21Z")
I’m into the first three chapters of it and decided I like it quite a bit, but it is too above the heads of my kids to read right now. schweeet! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257/35 "2008-05-01T20:11:00Z")
[QUOTE=Beadalin] Give [The Name of the Wind](http://www.amazon.com/Name-Wind-Kingkiller-Chronicle-Day/dp/0756404746/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209416225&sr=1-1) a try. I am re-reading it right now, and it’s destined to be part of a series (the second book will come out on April 7, 2009). [/QUOTE] At least three webcomics I read took time out from their usual stuff to plug Name of the Wind. That got me interested. Sadly, it’s not available on Audible yet, which is how I get my books these days. Not much sitting-and-reading time. I’ve got a plane trip coming up, though, and between the Dresden books and Name of the Wind I think I’ll have more than enough to satisfy me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-i-am-ready-to-move-on-from-harry-potter-books/447257.md?page=1)