"First, let me introduce you to yourself" (Beware RotE Spoilers)

[Farseer]

Haven't read any of RH's short works, must remedy that...

Yes, you must, but this is easily begun if you are able to purchase 'The Inheritance'. I wish, for the sake of many here on thePlenty, that 'Words Like Coins' had been included in it though...

I'm thinking Narnia is next for my little guy, then I'm not sure what. His Dark Materials is a fave of mine but it's a bit disturbing, and a little too adolescent (but so is HP; my son just ignores or skips all the teenage romance stuff). We have the Hobbit audio CD that we might bust out on a long car trip soon.

Yes, the Narnia Chronicles are on the to-read list as well. I re-read them a year or so back but my daughter is yet to get into them. Allowing her to watch the movie wasn't the best move as she hated it!

Besides the Deltora Quest books (which I just can't recommend enough, and we have each of the CDs for the entire series as all car trips we do are long ), Emily Rodda's Rowan of Rin series is terrific as well, though not as full of action as Deltora Quest. There are five books in the RoR series, with 'Rowan of Rin' the title of the first book. My eldest son began to read it but didn't like it, and so I then read it to him of a night...he went on to read the rest by himself and loved them. My second son loved them from the beginning...

One day, you will also have to try John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series. They are wonderful books, mostly for the easy and amusing relationships between the main three characters. Halt is easily one of my favourite characters of all time!

Okay, I'm plugging the same Aussie books and authors I usually do but they are great stories, I think!

What else? The Troll series by Katherine Langrish which begins with 'Troll Fell' or the Book series (not its actual series name but the best way to describe them!) by James Moloney which begins with'The Book of Lies' .

As did joost, I'd also point you toward the Artemis Fowl series of books by Eoin Colfer.

Oh, I can't NOT recommend the Hatchet series by US author Gary Paulsen either. They're not fantasy by any means but a terrific story nonetheless.