The Best: Harry Potter books

Everyone knows the Harry Potter series. J.K. Rowling’s internationally bestselling books now exist in at least 69 languages and sold nearly 450 million copies for a staggering $7.7 billion total. To put that into perspective, that means that one in fifteen people have bought one of the books. More people own a copy than there were in the British Empire at its pinnacle (412 million in 1913). So what better place for our blog to start than with a ranking of the best Harry Potter books. For this list, we will be looking at the book series, and ignoring (for now) the spin-off books by Rowling. Spoilers, inevitably, will follow…

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Christchurch College Oxford dining hall, which the Hogwarts dining hall was modelled upon. Image from chensiyuan on Wikimedia Commons.

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