Books like Harry Potter (series) 1-7
12 books with a reading profile close to Harry Potter (series) 1-7 by J. K. Rowling. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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1
The Wee Free Men
by Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, a resident of the rural Chalk, faces an invasion when a portal opens from the realm of the Queen of the Fairies.
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2
Cinderella Is Dead
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the kingdom of Mersailles has become a rigid patriarchy.
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3
Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Fat Charlie Nancy leads a timid, predictable life in London until his estranged father, Mr.
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4
Inheritance Cycle Eragon Eldest Brisingr
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Farmhand Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the Spine mountains that hatches into the dragon Saphira.
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5
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
In this final installment, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger abandon their education at Hogwarts to locate and destroy Voldemort’s Horcruxes.
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6
The Light Fantastic
by Terry Pratchett, Ernest Riera
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The Light Fantastic picks up immediately after the wizard Rincewind and the tourist Twoflower fall off the edge of the Discworld.
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7
Prince Caspian Movie Tie-in Edition (rack)
by C. S. Lewis
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
A year after their departure from Narnia, the Pevensie siblings are pulled back from a British railway station to find centuries have passed in the magical realm.
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8
Nimona
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Lord Ballister Blackheart is a disgraced knight turned villain who follows a strict moral code of non-lethal schemes to expose the corruption of the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics.
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9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
entertainment, narrative
Ten-year-old Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs, bullied by his aunt, uncle, and cousin.
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10
Bone: The Complete Edition
by Jeff Smith
Also clear-cut · entertainment, narrative
The narrative follows the three Bone cousins—Phoney, Smiley, and the earnest Fone Bone—after they are exiled from Boneville into a vast, uncharted valley.
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11
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Bilbo Baggins, a quiet hobbit who prefers the safety of his underground home, is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a party of thirteen dwarves to serve as a professional thief.
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12
Inheritance Cycle
Also clear-cut and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Eragon, a farm boy in the land of Alagaesia, discovers a polished blue stone that hatches into a dragon named Saphira.
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