What kind of thing do you like, Samye? If you’re fond of Harry Potter, you might like Diana Wynne Jones — she was writing about wizards/witches/ghosts/sci fi fantasy long before JK Rowling and I think she’s more interesting. The Terry Pratchett witch series (The Wee Free Men, A Hatful of Sky and Wintersmith) are brilliant — about a resourceful teenager learning to be a witch — very funny and very practical. Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights( The Magic Compass in the US), the Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass are brilliant — don’t judge them by the movie which apparently wasn’t wonderful but the books are. Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover or The Tricksters (about modern-day witches and ghosts) are both brilliant, as are all her works.
And if you want a lovely first romance, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith is charming, old fashioned and very quirky in a very English way.
These are all crossover children/adult books so nothing to frighten the horses, tee hee.
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