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Books like Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling · 2003 · UK · fantasy · young adult
Book 5 of 7 in Harry Potter
★ 4.50 Goodreads · 3,950,428 ratings

The wizarding government refuses to believe Voldemort is back; Harry's fifth year is a war of pamphlets, secret clubs, and a ministry inquisitor who uses a quill dipped in the user's own blood.

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12 books for readers of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Carry On

Rainbow Rowell · 2015 · US 96% match ★ 4.06 Hardcover · 569 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Simon Snow
shares: chosen one, boarding school, young adult, school · easy read, speculative

Simon Snow, the worst Chosen One ever chosen, starts his last year at the Watford School of Magicks dumped by his girlfriend and missing his roommate Baz, a vampire he is sure is plotting against him.

Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor · 2011 · US 95% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 39,270 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Nsibidi Scripts
shares: young adult, magic, coming of age, school · easy read, earnest

Sunny Nwazue, twelve, born in New York to Nigerian parents and now living in Nigeria, an albino who can't play football in the sun, finds out she is one of the Leopard People, who work juju.

A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik · 2020 · US 95% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 233,842 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Scholomance
shares: boarding school, magic, school · speculative, easy read

At the Scholomance, a school for wizards with no teachers and no holidays, only monsters that eat the students, a prickly girl with a talent for mass destruction tries very hard not to use it.

Alanna: The First Adventure

Tamora Pierce · 1983 · US 94% match ★ 4.27 Goodreads · 138,780 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Song of the Lioness
shares: young adult, magic, coming of age, school · easy read, speculative

Alanna of Trebond, who wants to be a knight, swaps places with her twin brother, who wants to be a sorcerer, and enters the royal palace as a page disguised as a boy.

Sabriel

Garth Nix · 1995 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 222,436 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in The Old Kingdom
shares: boarding school, young adult, magic, coming of age · speculative, easy read

Sabriel, at boarding school south of the Wall in Ancelstierre, receives her father's sword and bells, the tools of the Abhorsen who lays the dead to rest, and crosses into the Old Kingdom, where the dead are rising, to find him.

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi · 2018 · US 94% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 261,102 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Legacy of Orïsha
shares: chosen one, rebellion, young adult · easy read, speculative

Magic vanished from Orïsha the night the king's soldiers killed the maji, Zélie Adebola's mother among them, and now Zélie, her brother and a runaway princess have one chance to bring it back before the crown prince hunts them down.

The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman · 1995 · UK 94% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 1,650,062 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in His Dark Materials
shares: chosen one, young adult, coming of age · speculative, easy read

Lyra Belacqua and her dæmon set out from Oxford for the far North to rescue kidnapped children, and stumble into a conspiracy about a mysterious substance called Dust.

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Jessica Townsend · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 4.31 Goodreads · 79,667 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Nevermoor
shares: magic, school · easy read, speculative

A cursed girl doomed to die on her eleventh birthday is whisked away to the magical city of Nevermoor, where she must pass four dangerous trials to join its most prestigious society.

The Rook

Daniel O'Malley · 2012 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.07 Hardcover · 437 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Checquy Files
shares: bureaucratic · easy read, speculative

A woman wakes in a London park surrounded by dead men in latex gloves, with no memory and a letter in her pocket from her body's previous owner, Myfanwy Thomas, a senior officer of the Checquy, Britain's secret supernatural service.

The Lives of Christopher Chant

Diana Wynne Jones · 1988 · UK 94% match ★ 4.24 Goodreads · 24,330 ratings
Book 4 of 6 in Chrestomanci
shares: boarding school, magic, school · speculative, easy read

Christopher Chant, a lonely boy in a well-off family, can walk in his dreams into other worlds, and his charming uncle Ralph starts asking him to fetch things from them.

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

T. Kingfisher · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 76,055 ratings
shares: adolescent, young adult, magic, coming of age · easy read, speculative

Fourteen-year-old Mona's only magic is making bread do what she wants, so finding a dead girl on the floor of her aunt's bakery is the start of more trouble than she bargained for, in a city where wizards are vanishing.

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman · 2008 · UK 93% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 572,423 ratings
shares: young adult, coming of age · easy read, speculative

Nobody Owens, a boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard after his family is murdered, grows up learning the ways of the dead, while the man who killed his family is still looking for him.