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I might also mention that my recommendations are all better books than HP. So there.
Once the shock of reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the fifth time in a row wears off, some readers may be wondering what they can read next. So why not start a meme of suggestions? So here are the rules:
1. You must copy and paste the directions, rules, and the list so far into your blog and then add three (and only three) books to the list.
2. These three books must NOT already be on the list so far. They must be fantasy or science fictional in nature that those who enjoyed Harry Potter may also enjoy. You must provide your name and a link to your blog and/or website so that people may contact you to ask for more information about the books, if they want. They must be books that you have actually read yourself.
3. You cannot recommend a series; instead, recommend the first book in the series. Terry Pratchett's Discworld would NOT be considered a series; but Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time would. Use your best judgment about whether you're recommending a series or not.
4. You must label the books as either YA (young adult, suitable for the younger fans of Harry Potter) or A (adult, suitable for the not-so-younger fans of Harry Potter). Please be clear about this. It will be understood that anything labeled YA is also recommended for A.
5. If you are an author, you CANNOT recommend your own books. (You can however hound your friends into recommending your books.)
6. Providing a link to information about the books you are recommending is optional.
And here's the list so far:
Jim C. Hines (jimhines.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Pat Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind (A)
2. Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice (YA)
3. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (YA)
Janni Lee Simner (janni.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Lene Kaaberbol's The Shamer's Daughter (YA)
2. Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword (YA)
3. Tamora Pierce's The Magic in the Weaving (Circle of Magic, Book 1) (YA)
Joshua Palmatier (jpsorrow.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. S.C. Butler's Reiffen's Choice (YA)
2. Jim Hines' Goblin Quest (YA)
3. Patricia Bray's The First Betrayal (A)
Booniecat (booniecat.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) (YA)
2. Diana Pharaoh Francis' Path of Faith (Book 1 of a trilogy) (A)
3. Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Pawn (Magic Trilogy, Book 1) (A)
Erin (erinlin.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men (A Diskworld Book, Tiffany Aching book 1) (YA)
2. Laurence Yep's Dragon Of The Lost Sea (Dragon Series Book 1) (YA)
3. Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle (YA)
Sabotabby (sabotabby.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. China Miéville's Un Lun Dun (YA)
2. Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) (YA)
3. Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms (A)
1. You must copy and paste the directions, rules, and the list so far into your blog and then add three (and only three) books to the list.
2. These three books must NOT already be on the list so far. They must be fantasy or science fictional in nature that those who enjoyed Harry Potter may also enjoy. You must provide your name and a link to your blog and/or website so that people may contact you to ask for more information about the books, if they want. They must be books that you have actually read yourself.
3. You cannot recommend a series; instead, recommend the first book in the series. Terry Pratchett's Discworld would NOT be considered a series; but Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time would. Use your best judgment about whether you're recommending a series or not.
4. You must label the books as either YA (young adult, suitable for the younger fans of Harry Potter) or A (adult, suitable for the not-so-younger fans of Harry Potter). Please be clear about this. It will be understood that anything labeled YA is also recommended for A.
5. If you are an author, you CANNOT recommend your own books. (You can however hound your friends into recommending your books.)
6. Providing a link to information about the books you are recommending is optional.
And here's the list so far:
Jim C. Hines (jimhines.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Pat Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind (A)
2. Raymond E. Feist's Magician: Apprentice (YA)
3. Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (YA)
Janni Lee Simner (janni.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Lene Kaaberbol's The Shamer's Daughter (YA)
2. Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword (YA)
3. Tamora Pierce's The Magic in the Weaving (Circle of Magic, Book 1) (YA)
Joshua Palmatier (jpsorrow.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. S.C. Butler's Reiffen's Choice (YA)
2. Jim Hines' Goblin Quest (YA)
3. Patricia Bray's The First Betrayal (A)
Booniecat (booniecat.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) (YA)
2. Diana Pharaoh Francis' Path of Faith (Book 1 of a trilogy) (A)
3. Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Pawn (Magic Trilogy, Book 1) (A)
Erin (erinlin.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men (A Diskworld Book, Tiffany Aching book 1) (YA)
2. Laurence Yep's Dragon Of The Lost Sea (Dragon Series Book 1) (YA)
3. Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle (YA)
Sabotabby (sabotabby.livejournal.com) recommends:
1. China Miéville's Un Lun Dun (YA)
2. Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) (YA)
3. Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms (A)
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Mary Frances Zambreno's A Plague of Sorcerors, which is right in the same ballpark, and the start of a series. I think the kid's familiar is a skunk, if I recall correctly.
Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci series, which starts with A Charmed Life, and also her ongoing series that starts with Dark Lord of Derkholm.
Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, which is also a romance, and is set at a college something like Carleton, as part of that semi Goth Tor fantasy series. This one shouldn't be confused with Jane Yolen's more YA fiction one; it's on the border of YA and A.
God, there are so many that are better than Rowling's, although I read and enjoyed hers, and appreciated the crazy publishing phenomenon that they were.
Here: I'll make an anti-recommendation, too: the Charlie Bone series is an even lower-level ripoff of the Harry Potter stuff, mixed with some theft from Roald Dahl. It's aimed younger, too.
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