{"id":383370,"date":"2026-11-06T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=383370"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:04:37","slug":"harry-potter-fans-3-fantasy-series-worth-reading-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/harry-potter-fans-3-fantasy-series-worth-reading-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter fans: 3 fantasy series worth reading now"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re chasing that post-Harry Potter<\/em> feeling, three series still stand out: Eoin Colfer\u2019s Artemis Fowl<\/em>, Jessica Townsend\u2019s Nevermoor<\/em>, and Rick Riordan\u2019s Percy Jackson books. They all deliver hidden worlds, friendship, hard choices, and real emotional pull, without feeling like a Rowling copy.<\/p>\n

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Harry Potter<\/em> still towers over the field, with 600 million copies worldwide<\/strong> and 120 million for book one alone. But Colfer\u2019s 2001 Artemis Fowl<\/em> shows there\u2019s another way to build a young fantasy lead. Artemis is a 12-year-old criminal mastermind, not a chosen one, and he kicks the story off by kidnapping fairy officer Holly Short for ransom. From there, he collides with a tech-heavy civilization in a mash-up of fantasy, sci-fi, and spy thriller, all built around control, conscience, and what happens when a boy who thinks he can outsmart everyone meets a world just as dangerous as he is. Widely reported sales figures put Artemis Fowl<\/em> at 25 million, and it\u2019s reportedly headed for a Disney+<\/a> animated version after the badly received 2020 film.<\/p>\n\n

Then there\u2019s Jessica Townsend\u2019s 2017 Nevermoor<\/em>. Morrigan Crow has spent her life getting blamed for everything, and she\u2019s expecting to die on her eleventh birthday<\/strong> when Jupiter North sweeps her away and takes her into a competition for a place in the Wundrous Society. The book is whimsical and inventive, but there\u2019s real weight under all that strangeness: self-worth, prejudice, belonging. It went Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards, and a fifth book is on the way.<\/p>\n\n

Rick Riordan\u2019s 2005 The Lightning Thief<\/em>, the first Percy Jackson novel, brings something else again. You get Percy\u2019s skeptical, funny, permanently exasperated voice right from the start as Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood, and Annabeth Chase go after Zeus\u2019s stolen bolt. The whole thing moves with a sharper rhythm<\/strong> than British boarding-school magic.<\/p>\n\n

If fresh magical worlds are what you want, Artemis Fowl<\/em>, Nevermoor<\/em>, and Percy Jackson are easy books to reach for. You can get them now from booksellers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re chasing that post-Harry Potter feeling, three series still stand out: Eoin Colfer\u2019s Artemis Fowl, Jessica Townsend\u2019s Nevermoor, and Rick Riordan\u2019s Percy Jackson books. They all deliver hidden worlds, friendship, hard choices, and real emotional pull, without feeling like a Rowling copy. Harry Potter still towers over the field, with 600 million copies worldwide … Continue reading “Harry Potter fans: 3 fantasy series worth reading now”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9352,"featured_media":383369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-383370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t