Other book series you have read? Any come close to HP?

I don't know your age but the sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind is excellent. The books are long but they are a fairly easy read. They remind me a lot of Eragon (also a good series) but without the, sometimes monotonous, traveling. It's an older version of it so there are adult themes but nothing too bad. There is also a ton of books in the series to keep you occupied.

One of my favorite series is also the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. I have read the series multiple times and I enjoy it every time.

I hage really enjoyed what I have read of the maze runner series so far. Interested to see where it goes. I recommend reading the first book.

Lots of people like the Mortal instrument series. I Thought it was an okay read defiantly teeny. I actually prefer the prequel to the series but it's a solid easy read if you are into vampires, demon hunters and werewolves.

I'm a terribly slow reader. However, I am creeping and crawling my way through Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones and I'd say it exceeds Harry Potter. On the other hand, it doesn't have the "hero's journey" plot line so other readers may be disappointed. Well, the boy called "Cat" hasn't received a calling yet. Maybe that happens in the next book. But it says the next book happened 25 years before the first, so...???...

The Bartimeus sequence by Jonathan Stroud is pretty excellent.

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"No! He is imprinted on you like a gay duckling. If you don't wean him off you slowly, he'll die."

Try the Pern Stories, they have talking (well telepathic) dragons too! The big problem is the 20 plus books it takes to read it all and they're not all short ones.

His dark materials by Philip Pullman . Norther lights (known as the golden compass, the first book) is one of my favorites all time. DON'T SEE THE MOVIE THOUGH

As a child I loved the Narnia books by C.S. lewis. I might have loved the Harry Potter books as much if They had been written when i was a child, but as an adult I am fairly lukewarm about them, i don't dislike them, but I'm not a huge fan either.

The red rising trilogy by pierce brown is really good but a bit darker. The reckoners trilogy is decent story by brandon sanderson(all about super powers) do not under any circumstances read sally greene's half bad trilogy

There is a graphic novel penned by celebrated writer Neil Gaiman called The Books of Magic. I would say it's an exploration of magic in mythology, literature and popular culture than an actual story as it's young protagonist is shown the past, present and future of magic and "realms beyond mortal ken".

It's follows a young boy called Tim Hunter who has the potential to be the greatest magician of the modern age. Tim is a skinny, dark-haired boy, with glasses who lives in present-day mundane London and is unaware of magic until a group of strangers show him this new world (They even give him an owl) Now, this may sound familiar, but consider that the comic was first published in 1990-1991, about seven years before The Philosopher's Stone came out. However, Gaiman himself doesn't regard Harry Potter as a rip-off of his work.

It's a rather sumptuous book.