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Books like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

J.K. Rowling · 1999 · UK · fantasy · young adult
Book 3 of 7 in Harry Potter
★ 4.58 Goodreads · 5,078,172 ratings

An escaped killer from a wizarding prison is after Harry, and a new Defense professor teaches him how the ghosts of his dead parents can still protect him.

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12 books for readers of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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.

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

Jessica Townsend · 2017 · US 95% 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.

A Deadly Education

Naomi Novik · 2020 · US 94% 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.

Akata Witch

Nnedi Okorafor · 2011 · US 94% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 39,270 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Nsibidi Scripts
shares: young adult, magic, friendship, 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.

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.

Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · 2007 · US 94% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 689,826 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Vampire Academy
shares: boarding school, young adult, friendship, school · easy read, plain prose

Rose Hathaway, a half-vampire training to guard her best friend Lissa, a vampire princess, is dragged back with her to St. Vladimir's Academy after two years on the run, where rivalries, gossip and something stalking Lissa are waiting.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · 2011 · US 93% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 1,384,137 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
shares: time travel, young adult · easy read, speculative

A Florida teenager flies to a Welsh island following a clue in his dead grandfather's photographs and walks into 1940 and a home for children whose peculiarities have to be hidden from the monsters hunting them.

Elatsoe

Darcie Little Badger · 2020 · US 93% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 24,246 ratings
shares: mystery, young adult · easy read, speculative

Ellie, a Lipan Apache teenager in Texas who can raise the ghosts of dead animals, her old dog Kirby above all, sets out to find who killed her cousin when his ghost visits her in a dream.

Every Heart a Doorway

Seanan McGuire · 2016 · US 92% match ★ 3.85 Hardcover · 684 ratings
Book 1 of 9 in Wayward Children
shares: boarding school, mystery, school · easy read, speculative

Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children takes in children who found doors into other worlds and were sent back, and Nancy, newly returned from the Halls of the Dead, arrives just before her fellow students start to die.

I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore · 2010 · US 92% match ★ 3.60 Hardcover · 484 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in Lorien Legacies
shares: chosen one, fugitive, young adult, school · easy read, fast-paced

John Smith, a teenager from the destroyed planet Lorien, hides on Earth with his guardian, moving whenever danger comes, and in Paradise, Ohio, his powers begin to appear just as the Mogadorians who killed three of his kind close in.

Over Sea, Under Stone

Susan Cooper · 1965 · UK 92% match
Book 1 of 5 in The Dark Is Rising
shares: chosen one, magic · speculative, easy read

Children in Cornwall and Wales are drawn into the age-old struggle between the Light and the Dark, rooted in Arthurian legend.

The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman · 1995 · UK 91% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 1,650,062 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in His Dark Materials
shares: chosen one, young adult · 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.