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Post-Potter for Grown-ups

Missing your friends from Hogwarts? Wondering what other magical adventures are out there? Check out this list to see where your imagination can take you.

Chapel Hill Public Library

29 items

  • Carry on

    the Rise and Fall of Simon Snow

    Rowell, Rainbow
    Book, 2015New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2015 — YF Rowe
  • A lyrical tale of love and magic set at the end of the 19th century. Great characters and visual imagery.
    Book, 2011New York : Doubleday, [2011] — FIC Morg
  • This series is Harry Potter for adults with alcohol and swearing and of course magic.
    Book, 2009New York : Viking, [2009] — FIC Gros
  • The film version of this was super lame, so if you saw it, but haven't read it...READ IT! The timeline jumps all over the place, but at the heart of this is a great love story set in Chicago.
    Book, 2003San Francisco, Calif. : MacAdam/Cage Pub., [2003] — FIC Niff
  • The amazing first book in Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy follows Lyra on her adventures in an alternate world Oxford. Her world is not quite our world though, and she comes to the center of a mystery surrounding missing children and the very…
    Book, 1996New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996 — JSF Pull
  • I was so excited to find another series with magic, witches, vampires, and enough history to keep me interested. The main character Diana Bishop is descended from the most famous family of witches and her research on alchemy texts places her in…
    Book, 2011New York : Viking, [2011] — FIC Hark
  • Book, 1991New York : Delacorte Press, 1991 — FIC Gaba
  • Like Water for Chocolate

    a Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

    Esquivel, Laura, 1950-
    Book, 1992New York : Doubleday, [1992] — FIC Esqu
  • The Wee Free Men

    a Tiffany Aching Adventure

    Pratchett, Terry
    Book, 2003New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Pub., [2003] — YF Pra
  • Book, 2003New York : Berkley Books, [2003] — FIC McKi
  • Book, 1997New York : Avon Books, [1997] — FIC Gaim
  • Book, 2004New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, [2004] — FIC Clar