Life After Harry Potter: What To Read Next

Even the slowest readers of Harry Potter have probably finished reading H. P. and the Deathly Hallows by now.  Some of you may be feeling bereft knowing that no more books are forthcoming from Rowling—at least no books from the wonderful, magical world that Harry inhabited.   Never fear, there are lots of other titles out there that you can try reading to fill the gap…

(Single Volumes)

John Bellairs
The House With a Clock in Its Walls
The Face in the Frost

Elizabeth Enright
Gone Away Lake

Elizabeth Goudge
Linnets and Valerians

Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth

E. Rose Sabin
School For Sorcery

(Series Fiction)

Lloyd Alexander
The Prydain Chronicles: The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King, The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain.

L.M. Boston
Green Knowe Series: The Children of Green Knowe, The Treasure of Green Knowe, The River at Green Knowe, A Stranger at Green Knowe, and An Enemy at Green Knowe.

Susan Cooper
Dark is Rising Series: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree.

Edward Eager
Tales of Magic Series: Half Magic, Knight’s Castle, The Time Garden, Magic by the Lake, and The Time Garden.

Brian Jacques
Redwall Series: Redwall, Mossflower, Mattimeo, Mariel of Redwall, Salamandastron, Martin the Warrior, The Bellmaker, The Outcast of Redwall, The Pearls of Lutra, The Long Patrol, Marlfox, The Legend of Luke, Lord Brocktree, Taggerung, Triss, Loamhedge, Rakkety Tam, and High Rhulain.
Tribes of Redwall Series: Badgers, Otters, Mice, Hares, and Squirrels.

Madeline L’Engle
Murray Family Series: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and Many Waters.

E. Nesbitt
The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, The Would-Be-Goods, and The Enchanted Castle.

Lemony Snicket
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, The Penultimate Peril, and The End.

Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials Series: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, and Lyra’s Oxford

C. S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; and The Last Battle.

Jenny Nimmo
Children of the Red King Series: Midnight for Charlie Bone, Charlie Bone and the Time Twister, Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy, Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors, Charlie Bone and the Hidden King, and Charlie Bone and the Beast.

Diana Wynne Jones
Chronicles of Chrestomanci: Charmed Life, Magicians of Caprona, Witch Week, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Conrad’s Fate, and The Pinhoe Egg.

Piers Anthony
Xanth Series: A Spell for Chameleon; The Source of Magic; Castle Roogna; Centaur Aisle; Ogre, Ogre; Night mare; Dragon on a Pedestal; Crewel Lye; Golem in the Gears; Vale of the Vole; Heaven Cent; Man From Mundania; Isle of View; Question Quest; The Color of Her Panties; Demons Don’t Dream; Harpy Thyme; Geis of the Gargoyle;Roc and a Hard Place; Yon Ill Wind; Faun and Games; Zombie Lover; Xone of Contention; The Dardard; Swell Foop; Up in a Heaval; Cube Route; Currant Events; Pet Peeve; Stork Naked; and Air Apparent.

Lian Hearn
Tales of the Otori Series: Across the Nightingale Floor, Grass for His Pillow, Brilliance of the Moon, The Harsh Cry of the Heron, and Heaven’s Net Is Wide.

Jane Yolen
Tartan Magic Series: Wizard’s Map, Pictish Child, and Bagpiper’s Ghost.

Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons Series: Swallows and Amazons, Swallowdale, Peter Duck, Winter Holiday, Coot Club, Pigeon Post, We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea, Secret Water, The Big Six, Missee Lee, The Picts and the Martyrs: or Not Welcome At All, Great Northern?, and Coots in the North.

Garth Nix
Old Kingdom Series: Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen.

Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl Series: Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception, and The Lost Colony.

Jonathan Stroud
Bartimaeus Trilogy: Amulet of Samarkand, Golem’s Eye, and Ptolemy’s Gate.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings Trilogy + Prequel: Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King, and The Hobbit.

Stephenie Meyer
Twilight Trilogy: Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse.