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The His Dark Materials books (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass) are indeed interesting. They're a fantasy series for young adults, though much more original and, indeed, fantastic than the usual wizards-and-dragons-and-gnomes stuff. Oh, and then there's the notorious humanist subtext, so not found in the post-C.S.Lewis world of fantasy. Which is quite refreshing.
Rumour has it that the minor villain in the second Harry Potter book (the charlatan magician) was a backhanded reference to Philip Pullman; J.K. Rowling, you see, is a devout Christian and an admirer of C.S. Lewis, whom Pullman denounced in a Guardian article as "racist and sexist", among other things.