If you like Harry Potter, here’s a reading suggestion:
The Lightning Catcher series.
Here’s a small breakdown of why you might like it:
- It takes place at a boarding school
- Has a main character with two friends
- Cool lightning and weather stuff!
- Not written by a TERF
- It’s got magic! Weather magic, but it’s really fun!
- Magical school hijinks!
- Not written by a TERF
- Really fun story
- Several books long
- It’s not written by a TERF
I know a lot of people are really attached to the Harry Potter series, but PLEASE, just read something that’s not written by a TERF! You don’t need to listen to my recommendation(s), but please just read something else and stop giving JKR money!
You know what? Here’s a couple more recommendations:
The Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Another breakdown:
- A sort of “chosen one” protagonist
- A group of close friends
- Magic!
- Not written by a TERF
- Drama
- Intrigue
- Quality worldbuilding
- Also not written by a TERF
- Lots of magic! Not spells, but a wide variety of abilities! As well as more mundane aspects of it.
- A magical school! No houses, but it’s still a magic school!
- Long books, a ton of content per book
- A lot of books! It’s a long series, more than just seven!
- Characters have a bunch of depth!
The Percy Jackson & The Olympians series! It might seem obvious, but it’s a great series and a great alternative. Another breakdown:
- Another sort of “chosen one” protagonist
- Starts out with a bad home life
- There’s magic!
- Protagonist goes from bullied kid to hero
- The cabins! You can sort characters into them!
“My OC is a Ravenclaw” no they’re not, they’d be in the Athena cabin!
- And there’s more than just 4 cabins, so there’s plenty of options!
- Excellent worldbuilding
- Mythology!
- Not written by a TERF
- Rick Riordan (the author) is very LGBTQ+ friendly!
- The series is a decent length, 5 books, but sequel series expand that by quite a bit!
- Great characters
- Engaging plot
- Overall excellent series!
You know what? Another recommendation. The Elemental Trilogy
- A chosen one protagonist
- Mages
- Protagonist did something that people believed impossible to do with magic
- Very cool magic
- Whole secret world of mages
- British
- Large variety of magic (blood magic, elemental, etc)
- Has teleportation as a common magic most mages can use
- Dragons!
- An evil organization that’s after the main characters!
- Romance
- Prophecies
- Not written by a TERF! (You probably could tell by the previous listings)
- Great plot
- Only 3 books but hey, that’s still a decent length




