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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series starting with Sabriel, which has an older magical kingdom existing almost side by side with a regular English-y sort, much like Harry Potter does.
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You beat me to this recommendation.
A very good series (the other books are
Lirael and
Abhorsen, if I remember off the top of my head). They're also sometimes referred to as
The Abhorsen Trilogy. Wonderful female protagonists (one of them a librarian, too!
), and a great parallel-worlds scenario.
On a more classic (and less light-hearted, perhaps) note, I also like Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books as a series (
Titus Groan,
Gormenghast, and
Titus Alone). There's no magic, but it's still considered fantasy (I guess they could be called Gothic).