Okay, so I am a HUGE Harry Potter & Twilight fan. My friends and I are starting a book club and we are going to start off by reading those two series first, but after that…
That’s where I need your help, I would really like some suggestions to other book series that are similar to HP and Twilight, both fantasy and appealing to young adults. I’ve heard Eragon is a good choice, but I would like some more opinions.
Thanks for everyone’s suggestions!
The Eragon series – Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr – is great, but also try the Age of Fire series (I think there are five of them, but I only own four) by E. E. Knight, told from dragons’ point of view.
Or the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funk (they made the first one into a movie), where a kid makes stories come to life by reading them.
Or The Wizard Heir and The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, where a regular kid discovers he’s not so ordinary after all.
The Artemis Fowl books are great too, there’s about six of them now. He’s a modern-day kid who finds out there’s a kind of faerie underworld…
Some older series that are also worth reading are the Deryni books by Katherine Kurtz (no dragons, but a wizardly race set in a parallel medieval time) – there are more than a dozen of them – and the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey (Pern is an agricultural-based Earth colony where dragons have been bred) – there are like 20 of those. The Amber books by Roger Zelazny are awesome, too, they’re a whole family of people with odd powers.
And check out the Hitchhiker’s series – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galazy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams.
Well, that’s enough to keep you going for a while… Have fun with your book club!
January 27th, 2010 at 6:31 am
You should try the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It’s funny, it has a lot of action, and it’s fantasy.
Also, I don’t really know if you’d like this one, but you might want to try it. It’s the Warriors series by Erin Hunter. There’s a lot of books in this series. My friends and I read it and loved it.
Eragon is really good. I’ve read the first two, and i own the other one.
I hope this helps, and that you like these books.
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January 27th, 2010 at 6:53 am
the house of night series by p.c cast and kristen cast.
the night series by amanda ashley
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January 27th, 2010 at 7:42 am
eragon is a must. There is also a series called maximum ride which is a group of kids that are genetically altered so they have bird wings. There is also a trilogy that has the warrior heir, the wizard heir and the dragon heir. Lastly there is the vampire academy series which has some intense scenes if you know what i mean but is still full of magic, adventure and love.
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January 27th, 2010 at 8:27 am
The Mortal Instruments (City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass)
Vampire Academy
Vampire Diaries
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January 27th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Do study book , " A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. This book relate to the historic even of French Revolution. It is great book. I hope you will like this book. Further more I suggest you read a book, entitled. "Not The Whole Truth" by M.R. Kayani, Chief Justice of High Court, Lahore Pakistan. Do read these books and tell me weather you like these or not. good luck
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January 27th, 2010 at 9:27 am
The Eragon series – Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr – is great, but also try the Age of Fire series (I think there are five of them, but I only own four) by E. E. Knight, told from dragons’ point of view.
Or the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funk (they made the first one into a movie), where a kid makes stories come to life by reading them.
Or The Wizard Heir and The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, where a regular kid discovers he’s not so ordinary after all.
The Artemis Fowl books are great too, there’s about six of them now. He’s a modern-day kid who finds out there’s a kind of faerie underworld…
Some older series that are also worth reading are the Deryni books by Katherine Kurtz (no dragons, but a wizardly race set in a parallel medieval time) – there are more than a dozen of them – and the Pern books by Anne McCaffrey (Pern is an agricultural-based Earth colony where dragons have been bred) – there are like 20 of those. The Amber books by Roger Zelazny are awesome, too, they’re a whole family of people with odd powers.
And check out the Hitchhiker’s series – Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galazy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams.
Well, that’s enough to keep you going for a while… Have fun with your book club!
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January 27th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead
House Of Night series by P.C. cast & Kristin Cast
Darkest Powers series by Kelley Armstrong
The Immortals series by Alyson Noel
Evernight & Stargazer by Claudia Gray
Deadly Little Secret (Touch series) by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz
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January 27th, 2010 at 10:25 am
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
http://www.khaledhosseini.com/
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perks_o…
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D Salinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher…
Cut – Patricia Mccormick
http://www.allreaders.com/topics/info_27…
Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
http://www.thirteenreasonswhy.com/
Crank – Ellen Hopkins
Glass – Ellen Hopkins
http://www.ellenhopkins.com/Crank.html
Impulse – Ellen Hopkins
http://www.ellenhopkins.com/Impulse.html
Burned – Ellen Hopkins
(I can only include ten links, but the above links for her other books can direct you to the summary for this book. [: )
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_…
Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
http://www.writerlady.com/speakh.html
Spanking Shakespeare – Jake Wizner
http://www.jakewizner.com/
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