Series
Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne & John Tiffany · 8 novels · 1 short story · 1997–2024
Harry Potter is a series of seven children's fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, among others, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic, and subjugate all wizards and non-magical people, known in-universe as Muggles.
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Reading order
A curated way into the series.
✦ Curated by the Loreful team
+1 newer work not in this orderSeven novels published one after another across ten years, each following on from the last, so the order they came out in is the order to read them in: begin with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and keep going. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a stage play published as a script nine years after the seventh book, picks up from that book's epilogue and is an optional coda. The illustrated Christmas at Hogwarts is an extract from the first book, not a new story, and stays off the route.
- Omnibus editions(6 editions)
Map
Harry Potter at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s3
- 2000s4
- 2010s1
- 2020s1
Shape
8 novels · 1 short story
3 authors
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Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 9 works carry a tone