Beating the Post-Harry Potter Blues

The acclaimed Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling has come to a close (with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) but don't despair. There are plenty of other books out there that rival, and in some cases, surpass, the beloved Harry Potter books, and listed below are some of them.

Kids

Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer; begins with Artemis Fowl The Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynn Jones; begins with Cart and Cwidder
The Harper Hall Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey; begins with Dragonsong

Chick Lit

The Shopaholic Series by Sophie Kinsella; begins with Confessions of a Shopaholic
The Heather Wells Mysteries Series by Meg Cabot; begins with Size 12 is Not Fat
The Waitress by Melissa Nathan

Classics

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Fiction

The Stand by Stephen King
The Sharpe Series by Bernard Cronwell
The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

Mystery/Thriller

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series by Laurell K. Hamilton
The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R. R. Martin; begins with A Game of Thrones
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King; begins with The Gunslinger
The Dune Series by Frank Herbert; begins with Dune

Hopefully one of these will shake you out of your post-Harry Potter blues.