Wizards are awesome and no one can convince magic-loving readers otherwise. Listed below, your next favorite read, are popular novels featuring wizards who’ve got some pretty difficult situations to deal with, from murder-mysteries to kidnappings and powerful, wicked enemies.
1) Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) by Jim Butcher
An entertaining murder-mystery novel with a witty hoot of a magical main character.
Harry Dresden is a wizard who helps the local police with crimes committed by means of magic. Basically, anything too strange for normal people to handle. Up for any challenge that racks in the dollar bills, Harry eagerly takes the job. But there’s a catch: This is a black-magic murder case, and no case involving black magic is an easy one. And this case is already off to a rocky start—that powerful dark mage knows Harry’s name.
2) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
A champ in the magical world of wizarding books, this final Harry Potter book is the darkest, most action-packed, dramatic, and popular in the beloved series.
Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived all those years ago when Voldemort tried to kill him along with his parents, has become a formidable wizard not far from the prophesized final battle with the Dark Lord. As the wizarding world changes for the worse around them, Harry and his loyal friends, Ron and Hermione, scramble to finish what Albus Dumbledore had started, gathering and destroying the remaining Horcruxes. Even as time runs thin for the magical community, Harry knows he is the only wizard who can finish the job.
3) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them by J.K. Rowling
A novel in screenplay format, this prelude to the popular Harry Potter series comes at readers in a unique and entertaining manner.
Newt Scamander, author of the original Hogwarts textbook on the magical world’s fantastic beasts, encounters more than he’s bargained for on a trip to New York when his book of beasts goes missing. As the magical creatures wreak havoc on New York City and the wizarding world is at risk of being discovered by the magicless Muggles, Newt races to recover them all. However, the beasts are soon the least of Newt’s worries as he realizes that there’s someone more sinister, and powerful, plotting among the shadows.
4) Carry On (Simon Snow, #1) by Rainbow Rowell
Carry On is a popular LGBTQ+ novel about a powerful mage named Simon Snow who struggles to keep his power under control and keep the influx of imminent dangers from prematurely ending his life.
Known as the “Chosen One”, though, quite a bad one, Simon Snow garners a great deal of attention. But a streak of unluckiness also seems to follow him wherever he goes. Not only has his girlfriend dumped him and he can never seem to get in touch with his mentor, the Mage of Watford School of Magicks, there’s a mysterious monster on the loose, a doppelganger of Simon, leaving areas sucked dry of magic and it’s extremely disconcerting. What’s more, Simon shares a dorm room with an extraordinarily pale boy who Simon despises and suspects is a bloodsucker. Baz is, in fact, always trying to kill him.
5) Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) by Angie Sage
A quirky middle grade/young adult book with lots of magic, drama, and fun that will introduce the mystical tradition that there is magic in numbers.
Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son—the mark of a powerful magician—is whisked away the night of his birth. In an odd stroke of fate, his devastated parents happen upon a newborn baby whom they take in and name Jenna. As the Heaps raise this new baby girl as their own, Septimus’s own upbringing is shrouded in mystery. Older now, his story unfolds, and new challenges arise in Septimus’s quest to add his name to the elite title of ExtraOrdinary Wizard.
The magic world never stops at the end of just one book. It continues in endless realms and characters and snatches readers in with it!
Which novel will you be snatched into next?
