HP readalikes

[Miles]

Just to add two author/series I like:

Diane Duane - The Young Wizard's series, and the Feline Wizard's series

Duane creates a kind of magic very different to HP. The Young Wizard's
series is for older kids, the Feline Wizard's series for adults.
Duane wrote some very good Star Trek novels as well ;).

Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow and Thorn

I'm about to finish the second of three volumes. Williams describes a
medieval world, but not on Earth (or not on our Earth). Not for small kids.