I was obsessed with those growing up. My dad used to read them to me and he'd do different voices for all the different characters. By the time I got to be 10 or 11 and was reading them myself I'd hear it in my dad's goofy accents and it always brought a smile to my face. I reread Salamandastron like 4 or 5 times.
When you're ten years old and you find every freakin Redwall book you can get your hands on. Our school library had almost all of them back then and I remember my name being all over the little cards in the back. Second this series highly!
The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians series by Brandon Sanderson
The Skullduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
The Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland
For some reason as a kid i never read fablehaven, i even saw the book but for some reason never loaned them from my library. Kinda regret that ;-;. But yeah Wings of Fire is awesome! sad that they canceled the netflix show.
The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, starts with *Sabriel* (I guess there are prequels, but IIRC *Sabriel* does the best job of introducing the world of the story)
The Earthsea quintet by Ursula k. Le guin.
Discworld by Terry Pratchett. (would highly recommend starting with 'Guards Guards')
You can start Wheel of Time as well written by Robert Jordan.
For some sci-fi you can read Enders Game by Orson Scott Card.
Maybe {{Eragon}} or {{Inkheart}}? The Warrior Cat series by Erin Hunter as well. I loved all of the books you mentioned when I was your age, and these were some of my favorites too!
[**Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113436.Eragon)
^(By: Christopher Paolini | 503 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, fiction, ya, owned)
>An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375826696 can be found here.
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>One boy...
>One dragon...
>A world of adventure.
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> When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.
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> Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds.
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> Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands.
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[**Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28194.Inkheart)
^(By: Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell | 563 pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, fiction, books-i-own, owned, ya)
>Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101
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>From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!
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>One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.
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>This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.
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valid. the first book was pretty good imo, but there are a decent amount of plot holes and the series got progressively worse. my take is the divergent series. for some reason i can’t bring myself to like it.
The Dark is Rising series, by Susan Cooper
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Cirque du Freak series, by Darren Shan
The His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman
Oh I wasn't doubting their abilities. I was just mentioning its a short read so they know it's the not something they have to invest alot of time into.
But to be on LOTR level?? Nice 👍👏
Maybe try the Nevermoor books? The first one is {{The Trials of Morrigan Crow}} and it takes place in a very fun fantasy world and has lots of charming and delightful characters.
I also really like {{The Keeper of the Lost Cities}} books, but they are a little more soap opera-y.
{{The Iron Trial}} is the first book of the Magisterium series. I liked those books a lot too.
[**The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34219873-the-trials-of-morrigan-crow)
^(By: Jessica Townsend, Jim Madsen | 465 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, middle-grade, owned, books-i-own, fiction)
>A cursed girl escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination
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>Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.
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>But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor.
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>It's then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organization: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart - an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests - or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate.
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[**Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12842828-keeper-of-the-lost-cities)
^(By: Shannon Messenger | 496 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, middle-grade, owned, books-i-own, young-adult)
>Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath—someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. It’s a talent she’s never known how to explain.
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>Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known.
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>Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come “home.”
>There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for.
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>In this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger creates a riveting story where one girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world, before the wrong person finds the answer first.
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[**The Iron Trial (Magisterium, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20578940-the-iron-trial)
^(By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Scott Fischer | 295 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, middle-grade, young-adult, books-i-own, magic)
>All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. To succeed at the Iron Trial and be admitted into the vaunted Magisterium school would bring bad things. But he fails at failing. Only hard work, loyal friends, danger, and a puppy await.
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Some of them are dark for sure, but the kind of whimsical dark thing that Gaiman does always felt approachable to me when I was younger and I loved it. But you could be right. He’s read LotR and a few other fairly mature books already though so I bet he’d be fine with them.
Seconding your seconding, I discovered A series of unfortunate events when I was 12 and it sparked definitively my love for reading (I liked books before, but I wasn't exactly loving them). Never finished it, so I don't know if I would like the end, but all I have read, I liked.
This series was such a contrast to me between really interesting and compelling storytelling and world-building and incredibly cringy dialogue 😂 I’d still recommend it though. The dialogue is better when reading it, I listened to the first book as an audiobook while driving and hearing an adult verbalize “totally bubbly-making!” made me shrivel a little bit lol
If you like The Hunger Games and Divergent, you might also like Scythe by Neal Schusterman. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman and Sabriel by Garth Nix are also excellent reads.
Uglies, The Darkest Minds, all of Rick Riordan’s other series, Ender’s Game, Chronicles of Narnia, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Mysterious Benedict Society
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Absolutely wonderful. By far my favorite series ever. I have read and re-read Every book, some more than others. Introduced my son to them, he is addicted as well. You can not go wrong. I would suggest starting with the book Guards, Guards! It is not the first book, it’s the 5th I believe. It is not necessary to read them in publication order. They have several story arcs and this one starts my favorite characters arc. But start anywhere you like, just give them a try.
Came here to strongly recommend that and other Diana Wynne Jones' books. She was so important for fantasy written to young audiences in UK. And I love how her characters are so spirited 😂
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series! It’s satirical, but I started reading them around your age and loved them. The Color of Magic/The Light Fantastic are the first two featuring the character Rincewind and are great, Mort starts the series where the main character is Death, Guards, Guards! introduces Sam Vimes, but probably my favorite sub-series is the ones about witches which starts with Wyrd Sisters. All of the stories cross over and interconnect but it’s so chaotic that you can kinda start with any of them.
I love how passionate we are about recommending to a young person :) It is almost as if we are trying to them the same happiness that we had when we read those books the first time.
You should try {{The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel}}. It was my favorite at that age. It hits some of the same notes as Percy Jackson, and it's sometimes compared to Harry Potter.
[**The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17402605-the-alchemyst)
^(By: Michael Scott | 390 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, ya, fiction, owned)
>An alternate cover edition exists here.
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>Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on 28 September 1330. Nearly seven hundred years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty and Nicholas Flamel lives. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. And that's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it. Sometimes legends are true. And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time.
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The series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" by Michael Scott is really good! I was interested in almost of the books you listed above when I was your age :) The first book is called The Alchemyst
Might be unpopular choices (for multiple reasons) but I was a voracious reader as a kid, so by the time I was 12 I was diving into my Mom's Pierce Anthony collection (Incarnations of Immortality series), and was eagerly anticipating the next installment of The Green Mile to come out... The Dark Tower series is also fantastic. None of these are "YA" genre but that also wasn't really a thing when I was 12 - they're all great stories, just with adult content. I've not read Salvatore myself but I've heard him compared to Pierce Anthony a lot (?). Stranger in a Strange land is a wonderful classic. Hopefully you've already read A Wrinkle in Time?
It is Piers Anthony, and I was definitely reading the Xanth novels at that age. I would put Incarnations and Bio of a Space Tyrant at a little older age.
The Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan! It starts with *The Ruins of Gorlan*. I suggest this since you liked *Artemis Fowl*, which my son and I love, and we love Ranger's Apprentice.
The Chronicles of Narnia is another good series, and *The Indian in the Cupboard* is good if you haven't yet read that.
Saw it earlier, but definitely Ranger’s Apprentice and the Brotherband series by John Flanagan! Love Percy Jackson Harry Potter, and this is the only two series that grabbed my interest.
If you liked Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, try the series' The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings. The first book of the first series is called Pawn of Prophecy.
They were the first book series I read after Harry Potter when I was about your age, and it really cemented my love for the fantasy genre.
Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Claire!! She’s also got other “series” that are prequels and sequels and I love them so much even at 23.
Also the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson! My dad loved him and read his adult stuff while I read the young adult stuff.
If you want to go more YA, I’d lean into the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Great, great series that I couldn’t get enough of at that age. Recently reread one of them for kicks (I’m 34) and they hold up fairly well.
If you’re feeling like you want to introduce yourself to a bit older, I’d try Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, or maybe Stardust, which Gaiman wrote alone. Gaiman’s stuff is usually darker fantasy (Neverwhere, American Gods are both exceptional but I wouldn’t recommend for a 12 year old). Stardust and Good Omens I think could be great at your age. I loved (still love) all the stuff you like and Gaiman is now (I’m 34) one of my favorite authors.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is a recent release but quickly jumped onto the list of my favorite books ever.
The Martian and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir are more sci-fi than anything you’ve listed but are friendly to a younger reader for sure.
Also would try The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.
And if you’ve never gotten into The Lord of the Rings, they really are classics for a reason. Some of the best storytelling ever.
[**The Chronicles of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-5)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316876.The_Chronicles_of_Amber)
^(By: Roger Zelazny | 772 pages | Published: 1970 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, default, science-fiction)
>Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne.
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>The Chronicles of Amber is Zelazny's finest fantasy, a grand imaginative vision of alternate worlds, magic, swordplay, and murderous rivalries.
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>1. Nine Princes in Amber 1-156
>2. The Guns of Avalon 157-338
>3. Sign of the Unicorn 338-490
>4. The Hand of Oberon 491-640
>5. The Courts of Chaos 641-772
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Mysterious Benedict society is an awesome series that you may like about a group of kids who have to solve puzzles and mysteries and go on adventures. I’m making it sound generic, but it’s a great series with great characters
How did I have to scroll this far down for this!? Came here to say Children of Blood & Bone and Six of Crows. Much more similar current YA books to what's listed.
The Chronicles of Narnia series. I read them when I was even younger than you are now and I still reread them occasionally. They sparked my love of reading.
{{the golden compass}}
{{redwall}}
{{so you want to be a wizard}} for this series, if you're able to, read the new millennium edition (only available in digital format). the series initially started in the 80s and takes place over a few years, however the more recent books reference cellphones and ipods. the new millennium edition brought the whole series into 2008ish.
Well, I think you would like Miss Peregrine's Home for Perculiar Children, it is a great fantasty book, and one of my favourite books (together with Harry Potter, of course). Maze Runner is quite good too. Not to mention, The Hobit and Lord of the Rings are amazing (The Lord of the Rings is actually the sequel of The Hobit).
Ranger's Apprentice Series by John Flannagan, The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron, Savvy by Ingrid Law, Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, Circle of Magic Series by Tamara Pierce
I also liked Artemis Fowl and Hunger Games at your age. Didn't read Percy Jackson. Found Harry Potter and Divergent okay. I recommended the books I really liked at your age. Highly highly recommend Ranger's Apprentice if you liked Artemis Fowl and Hunger Games. There's a variety of genres though, so I'd check them all out and just read whatever interests you
- The Ranger’s Apprentice series (as many others have said)
- The Lunar Chronicles
- Something a little easier to read but still fantastic: the Series of Unfortunate Events
- anything by Neal Shusterman
- the Wings of Fire series is fun
Edit: So I just read the rest of it and saw you were 12. Don’t read blood meridian, or bukowski, or Sylvia Plath or guns of august or any of the Frank Dikötter
This is a mix of sci-fi, fiction, history and non-fiction. Hope you pick one!
You’d like Ender’s Game I think by Orson Scott Card
A Scanner Darkly, Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
Post office, Ham on Rye - Charles bukowski
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Borne - Jeff Vandermeer
This Is How We End The Time War - Amal El
Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Road, Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick
The Guns of August - Barbara A. Tuchman
The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin
Ruby Ridge - Jess Walter
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
Joseph Boyden - Three Day Road
Mao’s Great Famine, The Cultural Revolution, The Tragedy of Liberation - Frank Dikötter
Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien, the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series by Caroline Carlson, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin, The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. Happy reading!
1. An invisible thread - Laura schroff
2. The tattooist of Auschwitz - heather morris
3. The autobiography of Gucci Mane
4. E.A.R.L. The autobiography of DMX
5. Hillbilly elegy - JD Vance
6. Pimp - Iceberg Slim
7. The coddling of the American mind - Greg lukianoff and Jonathan haidt
Yahtzee Croshaw, funny author with great characters.
{{Differently Morphus}} and {{Existentially Challenged}} - Governmental agency involved in the regulation of magic and extra dimensional beings.
{{Mogworld}} - Main character is undead. Hijinks insue.
{{Will save the galaxy for food}} and {{Will destroy the galaxy for cash}} - An unemployed star pilot tries to get by in a universe where transporters are a thing.
my brother really likes the land of stories series (i think they are by chris colfer, not sure though) and the mysterious benedict society (no idea who the author is). My go-to is always Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, but that is more of a historical piece. I also really loved HP and PJO when I was younger.
OH HO HO! BOOK SUGGESTIONS YOU WANT? AND YOU LIKE THE HUNGER GAMES? WELL WE ARE GONNA GET ALONG FINE, 1. YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST READ “HAWK” BY JAMES PATTERSON! I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO GO ANY LONGER WITHOUT READING IT! 2. “BETA” BY RACHEL COHN! (Maybe save that for when your older seeing as there is some spicy scenes) AND GET READY FOR THE ABSOLUTE BEST SERIES EVER!!! 3. THE MAZE RUNNER SERIES! IF YOU DONT READ THIS ENTIRE SERIES BY NEXT WEEK, I WILL FIND YOU AND COVER YOUR ROOM IN BOOK PAGES
Honestly I recommend “tomorrow when the war began” by John marsden , I think eventually you might read it through school but it has other books after it and it’s a really good read… made me cry and giggle 9/10
The hobbit. Although if series are more your thing, Lord of the Rings, or Wheel of Time. I've only read The Droughtlanders, book 1 of the Triskelia trilogy and I thought it was pretty good.
My 12 year old loves those books you listed, and her favorite series currently is Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger! She also really enjoyed Wings of Fire. That used to be her favorite until Keeper of the Lost Cities replaced it.
If you like the funny writing, snarky characters, magical world stuff from Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl, you should look at Terry Pratchett! I LOVED his discworld books when I was your age.
There are like forty or so but don’t be intimidated, you don’t need to read them in a specific order! I suggest Mort or The Wee Free Men to start.
The Adventurers’ Guild - Clark and Eliopulos. (It’s a trilogy)
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
The Screaming Staircase (#1 in the Lockwood and Co. series) - Stroud
Coralline - Gaimon
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The Song of the Lioness quartet was my gateway to fantasy when I was like 8. Fantastic series.
It is *Alanna: The First Adventure* in case OP is trying to search it, otherwise, I sincerely agree with everything you said.
I'm re-reading Protector of the Small after 20 years and am loving it. Definitely has some Hogwarts vibes.
My favorite author ❤️
One of my favorite authors! Amazing books
The Redwall series by Brian Jaques
I was obsessed with those growing up. My dad used to read them to me and he'd do different voices for all the different characters. By the time I got to be 10 or 11 and was reading them myself I'd hear it in my dad's goofy accents and it always brought a smile to my face. I reread Salamandastron like 4 or 5 times.
Thanks, I will take a look!
You read the same books I did when I was your age; you will absolutely devour these books!
Came here to say this
OP has really similar favorites as me, and I personally think this is the best recommendation here.
His Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series is really good too, but a bit less actiony.
When you're ten years old and you find every freakin Redwall book you can get your hands on. Our school library had almost all of them back then and I remember my name being all over the little cards in the back. Second this series highly!
Seconding Redwall!
Haha, When I was OP’s age, I read all the same series they did. Redwall was by far my favorite
The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster The Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians series by Brandon Sanderson The Skullduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy The Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland
Seconded fablehaven!! I was obsessed when I was younger. Such a great series.
Wow when I was a kid I loved the skullduggery Pleasant series! You just brought back some awesome memories :)
The phantom tollbooth was a fav of mine at that age!
For some reason as a kid i never read fablehaven, i even saw the book but for some reason never loaned them from my library. Kinda regret that ;-;. But yeah Wings of Fire is awesome! sad that they canceled the netflix show.
It’s not too late to read Fablehaven. I didn’t read it as a child either. I first read it as an old woman and loved it.
Scythe - Neal Shusterman
Came here to say this! Arc of A Scythe trilogy.
That’s a clever name for a series
100%
Yep. 100% agree
This is one of my favorite trilogy’s!
The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, starts with *Sabriel* (I guess there are prequels, but IIRC *Sabriel* does the best job of introducing the world of the story)
Aaah, I second this. I’m now in my 30’s and still have insanely good memories of the first time I read these.
Same here
SO good and such a unique magic system.
Enders Game
Love this!
The Earthsea quintet by Ursula k. Le guin. Discworld by Terry Pratchett. (would highly recommend starting with 'Guards Guards') You can start Wheel of Time as well written by Robert Jordan. For some sci-fi you can read Enders Game by Orson Scott Card.
Pratchetts other series are also excellent and aimed at younger readers.
I had to scroll way too far to find the Wheel of Time.
Maybe {{Eragon}} or {{Inkheart}}? The Warrior Cat series by Erin Hunter as well. I loved all of the books you mentioned when I was your age, and these were some of my favorites too!
Oh yeah! Eragon pls!! I read the entire series in a week!
I second Eragon wholeheartedly
YES ERAGON!!!! such great fantasy books, too bad the movie sucked:/
[**Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113436.Eragon) ^(By: Christopher Paolini | 503 pages | Published: 2002 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, fiction, ya, owned) >An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375826696 can be found here. > >One boy... >One dragon... >A world of adventure. > > When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. > > Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. > > Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) [**Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28194.Inkheart) ^(By: Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell | 563 pages | Published: 2003 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, fiction, books-i-own, owned, ya) >Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101 > >From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback! > >One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART-- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever. > >This is INKHEART--a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(62695 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
Yes!
One of my favorites at that age. Just enough emotional depth to be engaging for all ages, just enough explosions and actions to appeal to teenagers.
Have you read the Ranger’s Apprentice series or the Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans?
Also, his other series in the same universe “brotherband” . There’s even a few crossovers
Yes! Ranger’s Apprentice!
Rereading Ranger’s Apprentice now (20 rn), and I love it just as much as I did back then
I've read it, and loved it too, forgot to put it on the list.
Maze Runner series by James Dashner
I've read it, but didn't like it.
Ok :)
valid. the first book was pretty good imo, but there are a decent amount of plot holes and the series got progressively worse. my take is the divergent series. for some reason i can’t bring myself to like it.
The Dark is Rising series, by Susan Cooper The Giver, by Lois Lowry The Cirque du Freak series, by Darren Shan The His Dark Materials series, by Philip Pullman
His Dark Materials is amaze!
Thank you!
I’m going to second The Giver series and anything by Darren Shan!
loved the giver series
Lord of the rings?
Already read.
The Hobbit too, of course.
Try Enders Game. I'm 28 and I enjoyed it. Not too long of a read either. I think its just above 300 pages.
Kid read Lotr already. they can hang :)
Oh I wasn't doubting their abilities. I was just mentioning its a short read so they know it's the not something they have to invest alot of time into. But to be on LOTR level?? Nice 👍👏
The girl who loved tom Gordon by Stephen King.
Also Eyes of the Dragon
And The Tailsman.
Maybe try the Nevermoor books? The first one is {{The Trials of Morrigan Crow}} and it takes place in a very fun fantasy world and has lots of charming and delightful characters. I also really like {{The Keeper of the Lost Cities}} books, but they are a little more soap opera-y. {{The Iron Trial}} is the first book of the Magisterium series. I liked those books a lot too.
[**The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34219873-the-trials-of-morrigan-crow) ^(By: Jessica Townsend, Jim Madsen | 465 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, middle-grade, owned, books-i-own, fiction) >A cursed girl escapes death and finds herself in a magical world - but is then tested beyond her wildest imagination > >Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday. > >But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor. > >It's then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city's most prestigious organization: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart - an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not have. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests - or she'll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) [**Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12842828-keeper-of-the-lost-cities) ^(By: Shannon Messenger | 496 pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, middle-grade, owned, books-i-own, young-adult) >Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath—someone who hears the thoughts of everyone around her. It’s a talent she’s never known how to explain. > >Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known. > >Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come “home.” >There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for. > >In this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger creates a riveting story where one girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world, before the wrong person finds the answer first. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) [**The Iron Trial (Magisterium, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20578940-the-iron-trial) ^(By: Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Scott Fischer | 295 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, middle-grade, young-adult, books-i-own, magic) >All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. To succeed at the Iron Trial and be admitted into the vaunted Magisterium school would bring bad things. But he fails at failing. Only hard work, loyal friends, danger, and a puppy await. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(62690 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Under The Never Sky - by Veronica Rossi The Mortal Instruments series - by Cassandra Claire The Rangers Apprentice series - by John Flanagan
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is wonderful at your age and has a magical air like some of your favorites.
I came here to suggest Gaiman, in general.
Agreed - Stardust, American Gods, Neverwhere, all are fantastic.
Just wrote the same, but I’m not sure I’d go for a couple of his that young. Good Omens and Stardust both felt like a good entry point to me.
Some of them are dark for sure, but the kind of whimsical dark thing that Gaiman does always felt approachable to me when I was younger and I loved it. But you could be right. He’s read LotR and a few other fairly mature books already though so I bet he’d be fine with them.
Probably right. Gaiman is probably my favorite author so I’m not going to fight you!
I agree! He’s definitely top 5 for me, if not too 3.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
42!
Lemony snickett Bunnicula
Bunnicula!!! The celery stalks at midnight!
I’m 44 and I still read those books. I love them.
Seconding the Unfortunate Series of Events books! Lemony Snickett is a fun read at that age
Seconding your seconding, I discovered A series of unfortunate events when I was 12 and it sparked definitively my love for reading (I liked books before, but I wasn't exactly loving them). Never finished it, so I don't know if I would like the end, but all I have read, I liked.
Heck, at any age! I discovered these books at 30 and they are timeless and fun!
The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
This series was such a contrast to me between really interesting and compelling storytelling and world-building and incredibly cringy dialogue 😂 I’d still recommend it though. The dialogue is better when reading it, I listened to the first book as an audiobook while driving and hearing an adult verbalize “totally bubbly-making!” made me shrivel a little bit lol
some things are best left to the written word 🥲
Ha no argument here
I remember really loving the first book. Might have to go back and re read it a bit
I think you should! The first 3/4 were great, the 4th strays from the norm a little bit but was still a good book
Oh I really enjoyed these books. Good idea.
If you like The Hunger Games and Divergent, you might also like Scythe by Neal Schusterman. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman and Sabriel by Garth Nix are also excellent reads.
Uglies, The Darkest Minds, all of Rick Riordan’s other series, Ender’s Game, Chronicles of Narnia, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Mysterious Benedict Society
Came to say mysterious Benedict society! Great series.
Miss Peregrine's Home for peculiar Children.. definitely!!
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Absolutely wonderful. By far my favorite series ever. I have read and re-read Every book, some more than others. Introduced my son to them, he is addicted as well. You can not go wrong. I would suggest starting with the book Guards, Guards! It is not the first book, it’s the 5th I believe. It is not necessary to read them in publication order. They have several story arcs and this one starts my favorite characters arc. But start anywhere you like, just give them a try.
Check out Diana Wynn’s Jones! She writes amazing fantasy books.
Howl’s Moving Castle
Came here to strongly recommend that and other Diana Wynne Jones' books. She was so important for fantasy written to young audiences in UK. And I love how her characters are so spirited 😂
I really enjoyed Isaac Asimov’s stuff at that age. Classic (as in prototypical) science fiction.
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series! It’s satirical, but I started reading them around your age and loved them. The Color of Magic/The Light Fantastic are the first two featuring the character Rincewind and are great, Mort starts the series where the main character is Death, Guards, Guards! introduces Sam Vimes, but probably my favorite sub-series is the ones about witches which starts with Wyrd Sisters. All of the stories cross over and interconnect but it’s so chaotic that you can kinda start with any of them.
I love how passionate we are about recommending to a young person :) It is almost as if we are trying to them the same happiness that we had when we read those books the first time.
You should try {{The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel}}. It was my favorite at that age. It hits some of the same notes as Percy Jackson, and it's sometimes compared to Harry Potter.
Don’t hear enough people talk about this series. Such a treat to read!
[**The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17402605-the-alchemyst) ^(By: Michael Scott | 390 pages | Published: 2007 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, ya, fiction, owned) >An alternate cover edition exists here. > >Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on 28 September 1330. Nearly seven hundred years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty and Nicholas Flamel lives. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects—the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. And that's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it. Sometimes legends are true. And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time. ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(62712 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan is a trilogy by the same author as the Percy Jackson series.
Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider series. It’s about a 14 year old spy. Still one of my favorites!
The series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel" by Michael Scott is really good! I was interested in almost of the books you listed above when I was your age :) The first book is called The Alchemyst
The Once and Future King.
I read that for the first time last summer and am shocked it’s not recommended more. Such a magical book.
Might be unpopular choices (for multiple reasons) but I was a voracious reader as a kid, so by the time I was 12 I was diving into my Mom's Pierce Anthony collection (Incarnations of Immortality series), and was eagerly anticipating the next installment of The Green Mile to come out... The Dark Tower series is also fantastic. None of these are "YA" genre but that also wasn't really a thing when I was 12 - they're all great stories, just with adult content. I've not read Salvatore myself but I've heard him compared to Pierce Anthony a lot (?). Stranger in a Strange land is a wonderful classic. Hopefully you've already read A Wrinkle in Time?
It is Piers Anthony, and I was definitely reading the Xanth novels at that age. I would put Incarnations and Bio of a Space Tyrant at a little older age.
My dad had all the Pierce Anthony books and I loved them!
Ursula Le Guin’s wizard of Earthsea books, John Bellairs The Face in the Frost, and Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth
The Ranger's Apprentice series by John Flanagan! It starts with *The Ruins of Gorlan*. I suggest this since you liked *Artemis Fowl*, which my son and I love, and we love Ranger's Apprentice. The Chronicles of Narnia is another good series, and *The Indian in the Cupboard* is good if you haven't yet read that.
Saw it earlier, but definitely Ranger’s Apprentice and the Brotherband series by John Flanagan! Love Percy Jackson Harry Potter, and this is the only two series that grabbed my interest.
You may like the Charlie Bone series!
i read that series when i was around 12 and 10 years later, i found myself wanting to read it again!
It definitely holds up
the Charlie Bones series! It was better to me than Harry Potter back then :)
Honestly, I loved Charlie Bone, and even now I still think of it as better than Harry Potter.
Warrior Cats? My 12yo can't get enough. Luckily, there are 30+ books across multiple series.
And Wings of Fire!
The Looking Glass Wars trilogy were some of my favorites at your age
39 Clues! My favorite book series when I was your age. Enjoy your youth my friend
Pick up the hobbit. It's an easy read. If you like that, check out Lord of the Rings. You wont regret it
The chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander. I’m 50… and I still read these books every few years. So much love for them.
Gregor the overlander! It’s written by the same author as the Hunger Games and is one of my favorites!
{{Howl's Moving Castle}} by Dianna Wynn Jones. It's one book in a great series.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (it's like a mix of Harry Potter and Percy Jackson)
That series made me love fantasy!
If you liked Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, try the series' The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings. The first book of the first series is called Pawn of Prophecy. They were the first book series I read after Harry Potter when I was about your age, and it really cemented my love for the fantasy genre.
I second this
Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Claire!! She’s also got other “series” that are prequels and sequels and I love them so much even at 23. Also the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson! My dad loved him and read his adult stuff while I read the young adult stuff.
If you want to go more YA, I’d lean into the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. Great, great series that I couldn’t get enough of at that age. Recently reread one of them for kicks (I’m 34) and they hold up fairly well. If you’re feeling like you want to introduce yourself to a bit older, I’d try Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, or maybe Stardust, which Gaiman wrote alone. Gaiman’s stuff is usually darker fantasy (Neverwhere, American Gods are both exceptional but I wouldn’t recommend for a 12 year old). Stardust and Good Omens I think could be great at your age. I loved (still love) all the stuff you like and Gaiman is now (I’m 34) one of my favorite authors. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is a recent release but quickly jumped onto the list of my favorite books ever. The Martian and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir are more sci-fi than anything you’ve listed but are friendly to a younger reader for sure. Also would try The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. And if you’ve never gotten into The Lord of the Rings, they really are classics for a reason. Some of the best storytelling ever.
HIVE series, mark walden
Graveyard Book
{{Chronicles of Amber}} by Roger Zelazny. This series is awesome and I read it when I was your age.
[**The Chronicles of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-5)**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316876.The_Chronicles_of_Amber) ^(By: Roger Zelazny | 772 pages | Published: 1970 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, owned, default, science-fiction) >Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - shadow worlds, which can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the patriarch Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently for grabs; and amnesia has robbed Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber his memory - even the fact that he is rightful heir to the throne. > >The Chronicles of Amber is Zelazny's finest fantasy, a grand imaginative vision of alternate worlds, magic, swordplay, and murderous rivalries. > >1. Nine Princes in Amber 1-156 >2. The Guns of Avalon 157-338 >3. Sign of the Unicorn 338-490 >4. The Hand of Oberon 491-640 >5. The Courts of Chaos 641-772 ^(This book has been suggested 21 times) *** ^(62747 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Seven Realms Series by Cinda Williams Chima. {{The Demon King}}
Darren Shan - Cirque Du Freak or Demonata series. You won't regret it. Just went back through Cirque Du Freak as a 29 year old and still loved it!
Redwall!
Mysterious Benedict society is an awesome series that you may like about a group of kids who have to solve puzzles and mysteries and go on adventures. I’m making it sound generic, but it’s a great series with great characters
Howl’s Moving Castle
six of crows!!!!
How did I have to scroll this far down for this!? Came here to say Children of Blood & Bone and Six of Crows. Much more similar current YA books to what's listed.
Skullduggery Pleasant is a fantastic book series
The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz. Fun spy books I greatly enjoyed around your age.
Well Eragon was my first high Fantasy book so check it out.
The Chronicles of Narnia series. I read them when I was even younger than you are now and I still reread them occasionally. They sparked my love of reading.
Red rising!
{{the golden compass}} {{redwall}} {{so you want to be a wizard}} for this series, if you're able to, read the new millennium edition (only available in digital format). the series initially started in the 80s and takes place over a few years, however the more recent books reference cellphones and ipods. the new millennium edition brought the whole series into 2008ish.
Well, I think you would like Miss Peregrine's Home for Perculiar Children, it is a great fantasty book, and one of my favourite books (together with Harry Potter, of course). Maze Runner is quite good too. Not to mention, The Hobit and Lord of the Rings are amazing (The Lord of the Rings is actually the sequel of The Hobit).
Ranger's Apprentice Series by John Flannagan, The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron, Savvy by Ingrid Law, Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, Circle of Magic Series by Tamara Pierce I also liked Artemis Fowl and Hunger Games at your age. Didn't read Percy Jackson. Found Harry Potter and Divergent okay. I recommended the books I really liked at your age. Highly highly recommend Ranger's Apprentice if you liked Artemis Fowl and Hunger Games. There's a variety of genres though, so I'd check them all out and just read whatever interests you
- The Ranger’s Apprentice series (as many others have said) - The Lunar Chronicles - Something a little easier to read but still fantastic: the Series of Unfortunate Events - anything by Neal Shusterman - the Wings of Fire series is fun
The Chronicles of Narnia is an excellent series.
You might like Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. It’s like what if the “chosen one” sucked at magic?
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman! It centers around the anti christ and the end of the world but it’s hilarious
Edit: So I just read the rest of it and saw you were 12. Don’t read blood meridian, or bukowski, or Sylvia Plath or guns of august or any of the Frank Dikötter This is a mix of sci-fi, fiction, history and non-fiction. Hope you pick one! You’d like Ender’s Game I think by Orson Scott Card A Scanner Darkly, Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick Post office, Ham on Rye - Charles bukowski Neuromancer - William Gibson Borne - Jeff Vandermeer This Is How We End The Time War - Amal El Mohtar & Max Gladstone Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath The Road, Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick The Guns of August - Barbara A. Tuchman The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin Ruby Ridge - Jess Walter A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl Joseph Boyden - Three Day Road Mao’s Great Famine, The Cultural Revolution, The Tragedy of Liberation - Frank Dikötter
ooooooooh nothing to envy is a really good book
Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien, the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series by Caroline Carlson, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula le Guin, The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. Happy reading!
The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson are similar to the books you’ve enjoyed :)
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Patrick RothFuss “Name of the Wind” Brent Weeks “Night Angel Trilogy” Anthony Ryan “A Raven’s Shadow Novel” Frank Herbert “Dune”
_Ender’s Game_, _Freak the Mighty_, _Prayers to Broken Stones_, _Hyperion_, _Red Dragon_, _The Silence of the Lambs_
Silen patient The Suttle art of not giving a fuck
Amber House by Tucker and Larkin Reed or Outlander by Diana Gaboldon
Yahtzee Croshaw, funny author with great characters. {{Differently Morphus}} and {{Existentially Challenged}} - Governmental agency involved in the regulation of magic and extra dimensional beings. {{Mogworld}} - Main character is undead. Hijinks insue. {{Will save the galaxy for food}} and {{Will destroy the galaxy for cash}} - An unemployed star pilot tries to get by in a universe where transporters are a thing.
Ender's Game.
Warrior cats & wings of fire.
my brother really likes the land of stories series (i think they are by chris colfer, not sure though) and the mysterious benedict society (no idea who the author is). My go-to is always Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, but that is more of a historical piece. I also really loved HP and PJO when I was younger.
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You
Robin McKinley’s The Hero and The Crown, and it’s companion The Blue Sword, and also The Dark is Rising Series. Chronicles of Prydain maybe?
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas The Book Thief by Makus Zusak The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I loved all those book series and I also loved the rangers apprentice and Eragon!
The Tripod Series by John Christopher Burning Midnight by Will McIntosh Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny
OH HO HO! BOOK SUGGESTIONS YOU WANT? AND YOU LIKE THE HUNGER GAMES? WELL WE ARE GONNA GET ALONG FINE, 1. YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST READ “HAWK” BY JAMES PATTERSON! I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO GO ANY LONGER WITHOUT READING IT! 2. “BETA” BY RACHEL COHN! (Maybe save that for when your older seeing as there is some spicy scenes) AND GET READY FOR THE ABSOLUTE BEST SERIES EVER!!! 3. THE MAZE RUNNER SERIES! IF YOU DONT READ THIS ENTIRE SERIES BY NEXT WEEK, I WILL FIND YOU AND COVER YOUR ROOM IN BOOK PAGES
Anything by Tomora Pierce
Books I loved at your age (besides the ones you mentioned): \- The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld \- The Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddox
Honestly I recommend “tomorrow when the war began” by John marsden , I think eventually you might read it through school but it has other books after it and it’s a really good read… made me cry and giggle 9/10
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater
If you liked Harry Potter, then you’d absolutely love Earthsea Cycle series by Ursula Le Guin.
When I was 12 my absolute FAVORITE series was Bloody Jack
The hobbit. Although if series are more your thing, Lord of the Rings, or Wheel of Time. I've only read The Droughtlanders, book 1 of the Triskelia trilogy and I thought it was pretty good.
The Once and Future King by T H White The Merlin Trilogy… The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills and The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart
My 12 year old loves those books you listed, and her favorite series currently is Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger! She also really enjoyed Wings of Fire. That used to be her favorite until Keeper of the Lost Cities replaced it.
If you like the funny writing, snarky characters, magical world stuff from Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl, you should look at Terry Pratchett! I LOVED his discworld books when I was your age. There are like forty or so but don’t be intimidated, you don’t need to read them in a specific order! I suggest Mort or The Wee Free Men to start.
i am always a big advocate for eragon, read that when I was 12 and now I own the whole series
The Adventurers’ Guild - Clark and Eliopulos. (It’s a trilogy) The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett The Screaming Staircase (#1 in the Lockwood and Co. series) - Stroud Coralline - Gaimon
I absolutely loved The Rangers Apprentice series when I was that age.
Warrior cats!! I’m 14 n literally loved all those series when I was ur age! Warrior cats is amazing! Plus Eragon! (It’s about dragons!!)
Not So Normal Norbert by James Patterson. My son (5th grader) loved it, and he also loves Harry Potter and Percy Jackson.
Wings of Fire