Books like the dark is rising series (but for older kids)

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Does such a thing exist? Ds loved this series

I loved the Dark Is Rising and as a teen progressed to all the fantasy books my mum used to read. Try the Belgariad, by Raymond Feist. The books are quite short and its pretty pc.

Thanks those look quite good

The Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix. The first book is Sabriel. They are wonderfully imaginative.

How old is DS?

I also loved the Earthsea series. Worth checking out if he hasn't already.

Wolves of Willoughby Chase and the various sequels and prequels
The Gormenghast books?

Take a look at some Anne McCaffrey if he'd like to try sci-fi
or A Wrinkle in Time and sequels

Alan Garner books would be good

He is 14. I tried to get him the earthsea series but he seem too keen

A few of these look really good. Just researching them now

As a lover of Susan Cooper's TDiR sequence I think I can recommend Anthony Horowitz's Power Of Five series. Psychic kids averting apocalypse type story. I listened to it first by audiobook to see if my kid would take to it. Seemed good at a 'youth fiction' level of writing.

Shanara by Terry Brooks, Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (but its looooong),
The Fionavar Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay (but has some challenging themes so may be better for 15), The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley.

Its hard to get that 70s feel, I don't think anything compares really. I have never found anything as good.

Try the Chronoptika quartet by Catherine Fisher, starting with The Obsidian Mirror. Like TDIR they use myth and legend, and are rooted in a specific place, in this case Devonshire. Also Philip Womack’s Wildlord and Ghostlord, which have a similar vibe.

Diana Wynne Jones writes for lots of ages but I still love them as an adult - rich storytelling, characters that stay with you and a unique ability to build up a hilarious crescendo of chaos that somehow comes down into a satisfying resolution. The Homeward Bounders might be a good place to start.

The Garth Nix series starting with Sabriel is good too.

And then of course there's Discworld, perhaps starting with Mort.

Ooh nothing is as good!

Alan Garner is a similar ilk. Diana Wynne Jones is brilliant.

Also the Deptford Mice and others by Robin Jarvis are similarly captivating but some of them are very scary indeed and a bit horrible (!) - actually a lot horrible, up there with Thomas Hardy, so maybe not.

Thank you for all these lovely suggestions

I was reading Dune by Frank Herbert not long after I read TDIR. Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman (together and separately)? Robert A Heinlein? (NOT Friday, which is a really horrible book.).

The Belgariad is by David Eddings, I think.