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

Rachel Caine's Ink and Bone (which is the first in a series) imagines a world where the Great Library of Alexandria was never destroyed, instead becoming a supremely powerful storehouse of knowledge with a presence in cities around the world. Though personal ownership of books is forbidden, Jess Brightwell is forced by his family of book smugglers to train at the Great Library and act as a spy, where he learns that knowledge is valued above everything — even human life.