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Yes! The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (book 1: Dealing With Dragons) and Young Wizards (book 1: So you Want to be a Wizard) were my childhood. I didn’t discover Tamora Pierce until college but she quickly became one of my favorite authors.
Even at the height of my participation in HP fandom, as much as I enjoyed the HP books, the above books were the ones I loved. I have really great memories from when I was active in the fandom and I still enjoy many parts of HP (and there are still many parts that I do not enjoy/am frustrated by) and I won’t let the author take that away from me. But there are so many fantastic books and authors that deserve so much more attention who are not actively targeting and hurting vulnerable groups. So lets promote them.
Seanan McGuire and Tanya Huff are both fantastic fantasy authors (mostly adult market) with positive LGBTQIA rep in several of their books. .
DO YA'LL WANT SOME FANTASY AND SCI-FI BOOKS/SERIES/AUTHORS TO REPLACE HP/JKR? THEN BOY DO I HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU!
TAMORA PIERCE HAS 8 SERIES (9 IF YOU INCLUDE HER MOST RECENT ONE) ABOUT LADY KNIGHTS AND A DEMIGOD WITH ANIMAL MAGIC AND A COP WHO CAN TALK TO THE DEAD AND THERE'S 4 MAGES WITH A MAGICAL PSYCHIC BOND AND ONE OF THEM IS A BLACK LESBIAN AND THERE'S A SPY WHO HELPS WITH A REVOLUTION AND THEY'RE AWESOME. (there's some attitudes that are a little outdated but TP started writing in like the 80s so)
BRIAN JACQUES (OBM) WROTE THE REDWALL SERIES WHICH IS ABOUT ANIMALS WHO LIVE IN AN ABBEY CALLED REDWALL AND THERE'S HEROES AND WARRIORS AND PIRATES AND BADGERS WHO LIVE IN VOLCANOES AND SAILORS AND OVERTHROWING TYRANTS AND DEFEATING VILLAINS AND GENERAL BADASSERY AND THEY'RE JUST REALLY COOL OKAY? GO READ THEM
NEXT UP WE HAVE KA APPLEGATE WHO WROTE ANIMORPHS. I DIDN'T READ THEM BUT APPARENTLY THEY'RE GOOD BOOKS WITH RELEVANT THEMES AND KIDS TURNING INTO ANIMALS. ALSO KA APPLEGATE ISN'T A TERF.
RICK RIORDAN. YOU LEARN ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY IN AN EASILY COMPREHENSIBLE WAY. ALSO THERE'S A FAIR AMOUNT OF BIPOC MAIN CHARACTERS AND QUEER CHARACTERS AND DIVERSITY AND HUMOR.
ARTEMIS FOWL BY EOIN COLFER. I LOVED THAT SERIES GROWING UP. MORALLY COMPLEX MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEMES OF OVERCOMING SEXISM AND MAGIC AND TIME TRAVEL AND I'VE ONLY READ THE FIRST 5 BOOKS BUT THEY'RE GOOD. EOIN COLFER ALSO HAS ANOTHER BOOK THAT'S ABOUT FIXING YOUR MISTAKES AND I LIKED IT A LOT.
THE ENCHANTED FOREST SERIES BY PATRICIA WREDE. MAYBE IT'S JUST BC I'M ACE AND I THEREFORE LOVE DRAGONS BUT IT'S A GREAT SERIES ABOUT SUBVERTING TRADITIONAL FAIRY TALES AND JUST BEING AWESOME IN GENERAL.
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. FATE USES 3 ORPHANS AS ITS PUNCHING BAG BUT IT'S KINDA EDUCATIONAL AND FUNNY IN A DRY WAY AND HAS A VERY GOOD REDEMPTION FOR THE MAIN ANTAGONIST. 13/10 WOULD RECOMMEND.
YOUNG WIZARDS BY @dduane. FOLLOWS TWO WIZARDS WHO SAVE THE EARTH/UNIVERSE OVER AND OVER AND OVER. HAS AN AUTISTIC CHARACTER. ONE OF THE MAINS IS HISPANIC/LATINE (I'M NOT SURE WHICH IS THE CORRECT TERM SORRY). REALLY COOL BOOKS.
UGLIES BY SCOTT WESTERFIELD. IT'S GOT 4 BOOKS ABOUT A SOCIETY OBSESSED WITH PHYSICAL BEAUTY AND THERE'S REVOLUTION. ALSO SCOTT HAS A SERIES ABOUT VAMPIRES THAT'S REALLY COOL.
THE HUNGER GAMES SERIES. LITERALLY ABOUT CLASS OPPRESSION AND REBELLION AND THERE'S GOOD DEPICTIONS OF TRAUMA AND WAR AND PTSD AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF (/s). REALLY GOOD.
WARRIOR CATS. NEVER READ THEM BUT IT'S CATS WHO ARE WARRIORS. HOW COOL IS THAT.
Anyway that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Feel free to add on.
PEOPLE. WHEN I MADE THIS POST, IT WAS MY INTENTION TO NOT INCLUDE BIGOTED WORKS/AUTHORS. PLEASE RESPECT THAT IF YOU WANT TO ADD RECS. THANKS.
Midnight Pals: Cats
Lilian Jackson Braun: ok so hear me out on this one Braun: what if there was a cat that solved mysteries? Rita Mae Brown: a cat that solved mysteries?!?!? Carole Nelson Douglas: a cat that solved mysteries?!?! Cate Conte: a cat that solved mysteries!!??
Brown: this is the greatest thing i've ever heard Braun: you think? Brown: listen i have 2 interests in life Brown: radical lesbian liberation Brown: and cats that solve mysteries Brown: and this idea definitely fits into one of those categories
Lilian Jackson Braun: anyway Braun: here's a picture of my cat Rita Mae Brown: oooh she's precious!! and here's a picture of MY cat Braun: she's adorable! Carole Nelson Douglas: and here's a picture of MY cat Braun: she's so adorable! Brown: precious!
Dean Koontz: hey what if it was a dog that solved mysteries? Lilian Jackson Braun: Rita Mae Brown: Carole Nelson Douglas: Cate Conte: Darlene Ryan: Sofie Kelly:
Koontz: i was just thinking, what if it was a dog- Braun: i'm not even going to dignify that with a response Brown: a dog! really! Braun: how would a dog solve mysteries anyway? by barking at them? Brown: ha ha good one lilian Koontz: but Braun: the very idea is absurd
Braun: a dog lacks a cat's observational skills and deductive reasoning Brown: yes exactly Brown: ridiculous Brown: the very idea Brown: what are you even doing here Brown: at the st. westminster ladies cat fancy society tea and crumpet social on the green?
Braun: ugh! dogs! DIS-gusting! we won't have any smelly mutts here! Away with you! [sweeping Koontz out the door with a broom] Diane Duane: you know cats can be wizards too Tanya Huff: oh yes yes definitely
[at midnight society] Dean Koontz: and they said that cats were better at solving mysteries than dogs! Poe: i really fucked up by not making auguste dupin a cat Poe: i didn't realize how much money i was leaving on the table
Koontz: but they're wrong! dogs solve mysteries! all the time! in real life! George Romero: ACAB includes cop dogs Poe: not now george Poe: dean's in a fragile state