Have you read any Murderbot? All Systems Red got me hooked (Martha Wells)

I was hoping someone would mention this!! I absolutely love anything in the Nine Worlds! Not all of which is necessarily calming - Jemis, I’m looking at you 👀

Nah, there are so many better options out there than Harry Potter. Life is too short to read antisemitism.

Have you read The Gilded Ones, by Namina Forna? It’s the first book in a great series, and it kicks the shit out of Harry Potter.

The Sisters Avramapul series by Victoria Goddard is another one (along with everything else in her Nine Worlds universe)

Or the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune

Derring-do For Beginners by Victoria Goddard

Edited for a word and to add another rec