I am a diehard fan of harry potter and after watching the movies i thought that they definitely wernt as good as the books so if you have seen the movies and did not like them,you must read the books because. Aug 02, 2016 this book version of harry potter and the cursed child is the script of the hit play that just opened in london, and even though it lacks the plays muchtalkedabout special effects, it. However, im willing to admit that there is a very definitive ranking. Out of the whole series, chamber of secrets unfortunately ranks at the bottom. We had a glimpse of his motivations in one of the final chapters of order of the phoenix, which is, in my opinion the best chapter of the whole saga, where harry destroys the office of dumbledore because sirius died but thats it. This lengthy book might as well be titled harry potter and the struggles with puberty, and fans of the franchise certainly know why.
While the harry potter series might be made up of seven very successful books in our world, there are dozens of books in the harry potter universe that are mentioned. But for most of the entire first half of the book, harry and hermione are on a. Ive always liked the film adaptation of harry potter and the goblet of fire, if largely for the sheer spectacle of the triwizard tournament. Hooray, theres now an official harry potter book about wands. Jul 14, 2011 ranking the harry potter books and movies were only a few hours away from the midnight premiere of harry potter and the deathly hallows part 2, signaling the end of a franchise that has defined so much of my childhood and adolescence. The story is set nineteen years after the ending of harry potter and the deathly hallows and. Ranking of the best harry potter books at bookkooks. Sep 06, 2017 jim kays illustrated edition of the philosophers stone is available exclusively on amazon in kindle in motion format. I argue that just because something has mass appeal and is an easy read does not make it objectively better than some of the other books to come out in the last hundred years. Rowling is the best selling book series in history.
Be sorted, earn house points, take classes with our fine hogwarts staff, debate which actor portrayed dumbledore the best, and finally get some closure for your post potter depression. To celebrate the return of harry potter, weve ranked the movies and now were taking a look at every harry potter book, ranked from worst to best. Im not here to argue about which book is the best book, because they are all obviously the best book. May, 2015 thoughts on 5 underrated muggle characters from harry potter bree may, 2015 at 12. The fully illustrated edition of harry potter returns as an. Is fifty shades of grey really the uks best selling book. If i listed my favorite harry potter books worst to best, it. For that, i think the book deserves a lot of praise, but like with the sequel to the matrix, i felt the story.
Illustrated edition harry potter illustrated edtn j. Harry potter and the cursed child is a twopart west end stage play. The chronological order of the harry potter books is the same as the publication order. These are 20 of the highest rated books on goodreads. The harry potter franchise is a global phenomenon like few others. Easily the most polarizing of the potter novels, order of the phoenix offers the series highest highs and lowest lows. A books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Harry potter and the cursed child is very much a potter book it has all the plot twists and turns and characters and quotes that stay with you long after you have read the book.
But this one has and epic final battle and umbridge is surprisingly even worse than voldemort. May 21, 2015 once upon a time you used to wait in line for the next perfectly crafted harry potter book, dressed in robes bearing your house crest and maybe even wearing some hpinspired earrings. Published as harry potter and the philosophers stone in the u. Order of the phoenix is by far the best harry potter book, hands down. The hardcover edition of the first harry potter book, with stunning illustrations by the awardwinning illustrator jim kay, was published by bloomsbury back in 2015.
After murdering harry s parents, james and lily potter, evil lord voldemort puts a killing curse on harry, then just a baby. Still, without this book, there would be no books, no movies, and no harry, and for that, the book ranks above the bottom. If anything, she has stuck to her formula and made everything more complex. What im getting at here is that im obsessed with harry potter and i love it with my whole heart. The main story arc concerns harrys struggle against lord voldemort, a dark. Deathly hallows an instant feels trip, dh is a great conclusion to a series that is largely focused on accepting death. Rank all the harry potter books from greatest to worst. With that in mind, here are the 83 most gutwrenching chapters in the harry potter series, happy, sad, mad and everything in between, ranked. Why this overlooked harry potter book is actually the best. Jul 31, 2016 the book, which is branded as the official eighth story in the harry potter series, was published sunday to all the midnightrelease and nerdsdressingincloaks fanfare of yesteryear. Jun 22, 2012 harry potter is a terrible series because the author took the first type of fantasy and forced it to be the second type.
Follow the adventures of harry and his friends in the iconic harry potter fantasy novels. A history of magic the book of the exhibition promises to take readers through subjects studied at potter s wizarding school, hogwarts. Its possible to do both with a much younger kid who is in the middle of the series without giving away anything from the later books. Feb 10, 2016 when diehard harry potter fans first heard that j. Unlike its predecessors, the film adaptation of harry potter and the goblet of fire is very different from the book necessitated in part because the book is almost twice the length of prisoner of azkaban. Honestly, though, we all look at the first book with a great level of love because it is what started it all. Harry potter is a series of fantasy novels written by british author j. She is a huge harry potter fan, and insists that the harry potter series are the best books to come out in the last 100 years and i am crazy for having not read them. Harry was cranky as fuck for literally the entire book. Here are a few books that every adult harry potter fan should read. I just finished reading it and before that i liked the chamber of secrets best for its intensity. Pictures of what appear to be all or most of the wildly anticipated seventh harry potter book, harry potter and the deathly hallows, due for release july 21, proliferated on the internet tuesday, seemingly penetrating the unprecedented shroud of secrecy put into place by the book s publisher. Discovering the joys of harry potter is a rite of passage for kids today.
This was hard to do, and i love them all, but here is my personal list of least favorite to favorite for the harry potter books. The curse inexplicably reverses, defeating voldemort and searing a lightningbolt scar in the middle of the infants forehead. Harry potter and the cursed child read at midnight. Lots of people hate this book, and i guess i kind of get itits really long and really depressing and harry spends a lot of it yelling, though not as much as youd thinkb. As the story progresses each book gets scarier so parental guidence may be needed for kids aged 710 when reading the last few books. The best books to read if you love harry potter time. Welcome to rharrypotter, the place where fans from around the world can meet and discuss everything in the harry potter universe. The play opened on 30 july 2016 at the palace theatre, london, england. How would you rank the books from your favorite to.
From the opening line of harry potter and the sorcerers stone through the poignant end of harry potter and the deathly hallows, few book series are as gripping as j. In this video im ranking the harry potter books from worst to best, or well. There will be a brandnew harry potter book this summer. Rowling released harry potter and the sorcerers stone more than 20 years ago, kids have been devouring the books, watching the movies, and at least for superfans playing games and apps and visiting websites devoted to the young wizard. Having sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, 6 7 8 harry potter by j. On june 26, 1997, british publishing company bloomsbury took a risk and released a book titled harry potter and the philosophers stone. Search, watch, and cook every single tasty recipe and video ever all in one place. At what age should you read each harry potter book. Whether you want to complete your harry potter series in hardcover, or gift a dazzling illustrated edition to your favorite wizard, the options are endless. The author, an unknown writer named joanne rowling, had sent the manuscript to 12 different publishers before bloomsbury picked it up. The harry potter controversy has gone on, in one form or another, for years, particularly before the series ended. An extremely long and extremely popular fic, based on the peerage system of the wizarding world. Until the sixth book came out, we had lord voldemort, a villain with no depth what so ever. It was published in the united states as harry potter and the sorcerers stone by scholastic corporation in 1998.
On one side of the harry potter controversy are those who say that j. Hogwarts library hardcover dobby bookend by noble collection. The novels chronicle the life of a young wizard, harry potter, and his friends hermione granger and ron weasley, all of whom are students at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. As the curtain rises on the fifth potter film, the wizarding world is in a tizzy over lord voldemorts return, split between two factions. Harry potter and the cursed child is a 2016 british twopart play written by jack thorne based on an original story by j. Dec, 2017 this was a repurchase for me as my original harry potter book is battered from years of reading. The first in the series, harry potter and the sorcerers. In this book, harry and his best friends ron weasley and hermione granger decide to carry out albus dumbledores request of harry to find the remaining horcruxes in order to finally defeat voldemort.
Three 17year old barely qualified wizards on a journey to destroy the most evil wizard of the age is not an easy undertaking, physically and. Harry learns hes a wizard, goes to a school full of wizards, and is filled with amazement and wonder at all the. Every harry potter book, ranked from worst to best. This book was written by newt scamander the fake name of j.
Some of these books arent very useful to anyone in the series at all, especially those by gilderoy. All books of a religious, ideological, philosophical or political nature have thus been excluded from the below lists of best selling books for these reasons. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone is the us title of harry potter and the philosophers stone. Harry potter movies ranked from worst to best collider. Rowlings first novel harry potter and the philosophers stone was published in the u. Rowlings harry potter archives are being released as ebooks. Harry potter paperback box set books 17 paperback harry potter. Dreamed up on a train to london in 1990, honed over the next few years in various cafes and cities most notably edinburgh the philosophers stone was finally published in 1997, with an initial release of just 500 copies. Never before had muggles been privy to these richly imaginative stories, including the wizard and the hopping pot, and the tale of the three brothers. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets off to the races with a little controversy. Rowling 1999 harry potter 5 book lot scholastic paperback books j. Rank all of the harry potter books from worst to best. The tales of beedle the bard is a collection of classic wizarding fairy tales which first emerged in the seventh and final book in the harry potter series, harry potter and the deathly hallows. Aug 02, 2016 the scriptbook brought the harry potter novels back to the usa today bestseller list, both in the top 50 and in the top 150 titles.
One could argue that in the latest harry potter book, the order of the phoenix, author joanne rowling has not let success get to her head and made the harry potter more mainstream in content. One of the delights of discovering harry potter is that. I stand by my opinion that one of rowlings original titles, harry potter and the peverell quest would have been awesome. They said boys wouldnt want to read a book written by a woman, so they encouraged her to go by her initials. Harry potter script soars to top of usa today best sellers list. I speak of books three and four, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban and harry potter and the goblet of fire. Not without his share of controversy, harry potter is more often lauded for encouraging children to read more often, especially at the dawn of the internet age, and with telling such an accessible and entertaining story filled. Aug 18, 2016 a collection of short stories from author j. Just finished speed reading the new harry potter book. Rowling, harry potter and the order of the phoenix by j. While the first book pulled readers in with its fantastically designed world and introduced the characters effortlessly while having the subplot of voldemort in the background, the. When harry potter and the deathly hallows came out in 2007, author j. It is the first novel in the harry potter series and rowlings debut novel, first published in 1997 by bloomsbury.
These books range from spell books used at hogwarts to autobiographies to fairy tales, and everything in between. Theres a book coming out in november about the wands from harry potter and the characters who use them its called harry potter. All seven harry potter books, ranked the portalist. It was written by jack thorne, based on a story by j. Harry potter series read online free read free book online. Basically, harry potter was first conceived as a childrens book, and as such fits the narnian mold perfectly. You are, in short, a huge harry potter fan, and huge harry potter fans are always in need of good fantasy book recommendations. Shop harry potter fantasy novels here the scholastic. Rowling was writing a sequel to her beloved sevenpart series, they couldnt wait to get their hands on the book. A first edition of harry potter and the philosophers stone for bloomsbury that was later sold for 12,000 pounds. If you like harry potter books, youll love chronicles of narnia.
In the years since 2007s release of harry potter and the deathly hallows, nascent fans havent quite experienced the pleasure agony of waiting for a new harry potter book. To me, its probably also the most fun read of the series because the stakes are kind of at their lowest for most of the book this is the only one where the fact that something is wrong isnt entirely obvious from the beginning and its full of the childlike wonder that harry feels as hes introduced to the world as well. The beginning can be a little slow for younger readers as a lot of it is not in the movies, but the remaining 85% is and can be completely imagined throughout. After reading the whole series of the harry potter, this book could be read again to know more about the behavior of professor snape towards harry. If your interest was peaked by the character of nicolas flamel in harry potter and the sorcerers stone, then michael scotts sixbook fantasy series centered on teenage twins sophie and josh.
Here are colorfully described scenes of newt scamanders adventures, wellknown beasts from the harry potter novels, the magician world in 1920s, and, of course, the evil enemy grindelwald. The wand collection hardcover harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban. See how it compares to the top 100 best sellers of all time. Its been 11 years since the last book was released, seven years since the last movie hit theaters, and yet the ip is as strong. Shop the fantasy book series for sale here at up to 30% off. Rowlings harry potter books are wonderful fantasy novels with powerful messages for kids and the ability to make even reluctant readers eager readers. Decades after the tales of the boy who lived were first published, these books continue to enchant and inspire readers of all ages.
If you think were a bunch of squibs, you get to rerank them. The 83 most devastating harry potter chapters, ranked mtv. Harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban became the most liked and wellplotted book of this series. Rowling was pretty insistent that the seventh installment had closed the book on the adventures of the boy who lived. The harry potter book series is considered one of the greatest series in literary history, beginning its commercial life on this day, twenty.
I choose you to write more about harry potters characters. Jun 26, 1997 harry potter and the philosophers stone is a fantasy novel written by british author j. Azkaban there are few places as immediately recognizable and full of dread in the harry potter series as azkaban. Rowling the top rated book on goodreads has to be harry potter and the deathly hallows unless you count the harry potter boxset as a book, rated at 4. Rowling and was designed like it is harry potters book. Harry potter and the sorcerers stone alright, alright, i know this is a major copout. Harry potter has had his story translated into more than 60 languages, and is the best selling book series of all time. Ive reread this book since and of course, i loved it. The seven harry potter books ranked from worst to best. Seriously harry, have a glass of butterbeer or something, because you need to chill your ass out.