I'm looking for a good children's series to get stuck into – [I'm an adult but love reading middle grade stuff!]
All the ones I've read are below. As you can see, I'm very unfussy in terms of genre, although generally 'whimsical fantasy' is probably my favourite.
I'm getting to the point where I'm running out of recommendations from people, because I've read so many of the 'main' ones.
Does anyone have a good recommendation that isn't in the list below? Thanks in advance!
Harry Potter
Hunger Games
The Inheritance Cycle
Lord of the Rings/Hobbit
His Dark Materials
Ruby in the Smoke series
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
Roman Mysteries
All of the Enid Blyton series, Twins from St Clares, Malory Towers, Five series, Seven series etc
Train To Impossible Places
Strangeworlds Travel Agency
Nevermoor/Morrigan Crow
Greenwild
The Hatmakers
Crookhaven
Land of Stories
Warrior Cats
Murder Most Unladylike
A Pinch of Magic
Elsie Pickles
Tilly and the Bookwanderers
Chronicles of Whetherwhy
Whisperwicks
Meticulous Jones
Inkheart
Keeper of the Lost Cities
School for Good and Evil
Amari and the Night Brothers
Castle of Tangled Magic series [Sophei ANderson]
Adventures on Trains series
Dominique Valente series
Malamander
Wizards of Once
How to Train Your Dragon
Percy Jackson
Legendborn
Wizards of Earthsea
Hitchhikers Guide books
Good Girls Guide to Murder
Impossible Creatures
Cogheart
Double Trouble Society
Belfry Witches
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Rick riordan’s other books!
Not on here but you may have already read it. I still adore series of unfortunate events and wish I could read it for the first time again allll the time
My time to shine!
Deltora Quest was my biggest love when I was a child. I can vouch for it with my life.
Boxcar Children; The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place; all the Edward Eager books.
Wings of Fire
The Spiderwick Chronicles – unsure how this would hold up now, but I have very fond memories of listening to this as an audiobook when I was younger
Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel
The Thirteenth Fairy
Chronicles of Narnia
Divergent
Maze Runner
Fable (and sequel, plus a few others that are in the same world iirc so not a true series)
Not sure if these count as YA but Terry Brooks Shannara series are easy reads. My husband read them as a tween but I didn’t read them until I met him in my twenties.
The Belgariad and The Malloreon by David and Leigh Eddings.