10 Books Like Harry Potter For Adults That Will Have You Saying, "Boredom Managed"

Lev Grossman's The Magicians (which is part of a trilogy) revolves around Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant, bored fantasy-lover who decides to skip his Princeton University interview in order to interview for the prestigious and incredibly selective Brakebills College For Magical Pedagogy — and amazingly, he gets in. However, unlike Harry, Quentin finds that learning magic is actually pretty tedious, so he decides to make his own fun.