Series Guide

Harry Potter

by J. K. Rowling

Seven school years, one prophecy and the bestselling book series ever printed: the boarding-school fantasy that built modern publishing's mass readership.

In the Guide

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

1997 · book 1

The bestselling opening volume in publishing history and the recruitment event for a global reading generation: whatever else is said (and everything has been), the modern mass audience for fantasy walks through this book.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2007 · book 7

The fastest-selling book in history at release (roughly fifteen million copies in twenty-four hours) and the conclusion that secured the series' canonical arc; filmed as the franchise's two-part finale.