MILAN – You have finished the Harry Potter series and your life has suddenly lost all meaning
Do you believe that no saga will ever bring you back to those superfine levels of entertainment
Do not despair, do not give up! Perhaps no book will ever take the place that the JK Rowling series has in your hearts, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find other “magical” adventures to let your imagination fly.
. THE MAGICIAN – Lev Grossman
“The Wizard,” the first episode of Lev Grossman’s trilogy, tells the story of Quentin Coldwater, a boy who attends an exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. Together with his friends he will embark on a journey in search of a magical land, but they will find much more than what they were looking for. A book capable of filling the void left by Harry Potter, its evolution destined for a more mature audience…
. HUNGER GAMES – Suzanne Collins
In a future post-apocalyptic world, the nation of Panem seeks to maintain social order and control over the masses through the annual Hunger Games, an event in which young people fight to the death. The protagonist Katniss Everdeen volunteers to save her sister’s life, but she doesn’t know how brutal and traumatic her experience of her will be …
Her. PERCY JACKSON AND THE GODS OF OLYMPUS – Rick Riordan
After a series of strange, supernatural and disturbing encounters, young Percy discovers that he is none other than the son of Poseidon, God of the Sea. With his friends he finds himself involved in incredible adventures to be able to avert a war between Greek gods. For all those who loved the more “mythical” side of Harry Potter and strong female characters like that of Hermione.
. THE GOLDEN COMPASS – Philip Pullman
Set in a parallel universe, it tells the story of the young orphan Lyra and her epic search for her kidnapped friend, which will lead her to discover the secrets of the mysterious entity Dust … An amazing universe, in which every human being has his own daemon: a companion in animal form, a part of himself, of the opposite sex to his own, thanks to which no one has to fear loneliness…
. NIHAL OF THE LAND OF THE WIND – Licia Troisi
Nihal is really strange, in the Emerged World there seems to be no one like her: big purple eyes, pointed ears, blue hair. She was raised by a gunsmith and lives in one of the many city-towers of the Land of the Wind, playing fight with a group of friends who elected her as her boss for her strength and agility. But everything suddenly changes when the Land of the Wind is attacked by the Tyrant, the despot who has already conquered five of the eight Earths that make up the Emerged World.
. SABRIEL – Garth Nix
And the story of the initiatory journey of Sabriel, a girl who wants to save her father and know her own destiny. Since she was a child, she has lived in a boarding school on this side of the great wall that delimits the border with the Old Kingdom, therefore out of the reach of Free Magic and far from the Dead who do not resign themselves to remain such. But now her father, the wizard Abhorsen, is missing and Sabriel must go to the world of the dead to save him.
. INK HEART – Cornelia Funke
When a foreigner knocks on Meggie’s door, her father Mo forces her to flee, like so many other times in the past. Mo possesses a magical and terrible gift: reading a book aloud and able to evoke its characters. Like Capricorn, the black-hearted Lord stepped out of the pages of Inkheart to hunt Mo and seize his gift.
. NICOLAS EYMERICH, INQUISITOR – Valerio Evangelisti
Inspired by the figure of a Catalan inquisitor who really lived in the fourteenth century, the creature of Evangelisti is an intolerant and ruthless man, but also intelligent, highly cultured, gifted with spirit and courage, at the same time devoid of doubts and tormented. His adventures take place in medieval Europe populated by Christians, Jews, Muslims and heretics and in different eras, current and future. Because Eymerich’s enemy can only have short and temporary defeats.
. MISS PEREGRINE’S HOUSE FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN – Ransom Riggs
What monsters populate the nightmares of Abraham, Jacob’s grandfather, the only survivor of the extermination of his family of Polish Jews
They are the transfiguration of Nazi ferocity or rather something else, something alive, present and still deadly dangerous
When an impossible tragedy strikes him, Jacob knows he can no longer put off: he must find out what happened to his grandfather and, above all, what he has seen, or thinks he has seen, with his own eyes.
. DARKNESS AND ICE – Leigh Bardugo
Surrounded by enemies, what was once the mighty nation of Ravka is now a kingdom torn by strife and literally cut in two by the Expanse, a wasteland of impenetrable darkness, teeming with fierce and hungry monsters. Alina Starkos has always been a good for nothing, an orphan whose only comfort is the friendship of her only friend, Malyen known as Mal. Yet when her regiment is attacked by monsters and Mal di lei is wounded, an enormous power awakens within her, the only one capable of defeating the great darkness and restoring peace and prosperity to her country. Immediately the girl is enlisted by the Grisha, the elite of wizards who, in fact, maneuver the entire court, led by the fascinating Dark wizard…
. NO WHERE – Neil Gaiman
Richard and a young businessman, by an act of generosity finds himself catapulted away from a quiet life and thrown into a universe that is both strangely familiar and incredibly bizarre. Here he meets a girl named Porta and the people who want to kill her…
. THE NIGHT CIRCUS – Erin Morgenstern
It is the circus of dreams, the place where reality and illusion merge. An army of enthusiasts chases him everywhere to admire his extraordinary attractions: flying acrobats, contortionists, the wishing tree, the ice garden … But behind the scenes of this unprecedented show, two mysterious rivals engage in their final match, a magical challenge between two young students chosen and trained for the sole purpose of proving once and for all the inferiority of the opponent.
. THE ALCHEMIST. SECRETS OF NICHOLAS FLAMEL, THE IMMORTAL – Michael Scott
Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. He is considered the greatest alchemist of his time and is said to have discovered the formula of eternal life. He died in 1418. But his tomb is empty. Nicholas Flamel is still alive, thanks to the elixir of life that he has been producing in his laboratory for centuries. The secret of the formula, however, is kept in a very precious book that is now in the hands of the evil Dr. John Dee.
. CINDER – LUNAR CHRONICLES – Marissa Meyer
Cinder is used to the scornful looks her stepmother and people give to cyborgs like her, no matter how good a mechanic at the New Beijing weekly market or how good she tries to conform to the rules. Precisely for this reason the attentive gaze of Prince Kai, the first gentle and unaccused glance of her, throws her into bewilderment. A cyborg can fall in love with a prince
. THE FURIES OF CALDERON – Jim Butche
In the land of Alera, men and women are able to control the ‘fury’ – the elements of nature: earth, air, fire, water, wood and metal – and exploit them to their advantage. Not all of them, however: in the remote Calderon valley, the fifteen-year-old Tavi has no magical powers: no fury of the wind helps him fly, no fury of the fire lights a torch for him. Yet, when the barbarians – the Marat horde, a people of ferocious cannibals – appear at the gates of the empire, Tavi’s courage and intelligence will prove a force more powerful than any fury, capable, after endless adventures. , to change the destinies of the war…
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