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

Set in early 1960s Alabama during the Civil Right's Movement, Robert R. McCammon's Boy's Life revolves around 12-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson, whose life is changed forever after he and his dad witness the sinking of a car carrying a brutally murdered man in the town lake. Over the next year, Cory discovers mystical secrets hidden in plain sight in his idyllic-seeming hometown, as well as all the darkness that comes with it.