New York Times Bestsellers
J.K. Rowling has placed 7 books on the New York Times bestseller lists, spending a combined 317 weeks on the charts. 6 titles reached #1.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter Illustrated Editions Series with Jim Kay
82 weeks on the Times Hardcover Fiction list · peaked at #1 · debuted Dec 1998
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The Ickabog
J.K. Rowling Other Novels
59 weeks on the Times Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list · peaked at #1 · debuted Nov 2020 · 61 weeks across 2 NYT lists
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Reading Order
13 series · 46 books| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's / Philosopher's Stone | 1997 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 1998 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2008🏆 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2008🏆 Golden Archer Award 2008🏆 Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards 2006🏆 British Book Award 1999Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 1999 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2008🏆 Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards 2005🏆 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2004🏆 Soaring Eagle Book Award 2002🏆 Golden Archer Award 2001🏆 Locus Award 2000🏆 Bram Stoker Award 1999🏆 Whitbread Award 1999+3 moreFull award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2000 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2008🏆 Golden Archer Award 2002🏆 Hugo Award 2001🏆 Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek 2001🏆 Audie Award 2001🏆 Corine Internationaler Buchpreis 2001Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Phoenix | 2003 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 6 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2005 | 🏆 Audie Award 2006Locus Award 2006Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 7 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | 2007 | 🏆 Audie Award 2008🏆 Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards 2008🏆 Puddly Award 2008🏆 Andre Norton Award 2007Locus Award 2008Odyssey Award 2008Carnegie Medal 2008Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 8 | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ( With: Jack Thorne, John Tiffany) | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Harry Potter Companion Series
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| 1 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (As: Newt Scamander) | 2000 | 🏆 Goodreads Choice Award 2017Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | Quidditch Through the Ages (As: Kennilworthy Whisp) | 2001 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Tales of Beedle the Bard | 2016 | Locus Award 2019Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 4 | The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac | 2023 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Harry Potter: A Journey Through... Series
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| 1 | A Journey Through Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | A Journey Through Potions and Herbology | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | A Journey Through Divination and Astronomy (Short Story) | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | A Journey Through Care of Magical Creatures | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Harry Potter Short Stories/Novellas
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| 1 | Harry Potter: The Prequel (Short Story) | 2008 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Harry Potter Picture Books
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| 1 | Christmas at Hogwarts (Short Story) ( With: Ziyi Gao) | 2024 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition | 1997 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2008🏆 Prijs van de Nederlandse Kinderjury 2002🏆 South Carolina Book Award 2001🏆 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2001🏆 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2001🏆 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award 2001🏆 Audie Award 2000🏆 Grand Canyon Reader Award 2000+8 moreFull award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: The Illustrated Edition | 1998 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2008🏆 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2008🏆 Golden Archer Award 2008🏆 Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards 2006🏆 British Book Award 1999Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition | 1999 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2008🏆 Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards 2005🏆 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award 2004🏆 Soaring Eagle Book Award 2002🏆 Golden Archer Award 2001🏆 Locus Award 2000🏆 Bram Stoker Award 1999🏆 Whitbread Award 1999+3 moreFull award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Phoenix: The Illustrated Edition | 2003 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: The Illustrated Edition | 2019 | 🏆 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 2008🏆 Golden Archer Award 2002🏆 Hugo Award 2001🏆 Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek 2001🏆 Audie Award 2001🏆 Corine Internationaler Buchpreis 2001Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Fantastic Beasts The Original Screenplay Series with Steve Kloves
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - The Original Screenplay | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original Screenplay | 2018 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Secrets of Dumbledore – The Complete Screenplay ( With: Steve Kloves) | 2022 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
Pottermore Presents Series
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| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Short Stories from Hogwarts of Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 4 | Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide | 2016 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
| ✓ | # | Book Title | Year | Awards | Buy |
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| 1 | The Cuckoo's Calling | 2013 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | The Silkworm | 2014 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | Career of Evil | 2015 | 🏆 Audie Award 2016Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2016Goodreads Choice Award 2015Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 4 | Lethal White | 2018 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 5 | Troubled Blood | 2020 | Gold Dagger 2021Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 6 | The Ink Black Heart | 2022 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 7 | The Running Grave | 2023 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 8 | The Hallmarked Man | 2025 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.K. Rowling Other Novels
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| 1 | The Casual Vacancy | 2012 | 🏆 Goodreads Choice Award 2012Full award history → | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | |
| 2 | The Ickabog | 2020 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Christmas Pig ( With: Jim Field) | 2021 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.K. Rowling Short Story Collections
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| 1 | From the Wizarding Archive: Curated Writing from the World of Harry Potter | 2024 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.K. Rowling Non-Fiction Books
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| 1 | Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination | 2015 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
J.K. Rowling Anthologies
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| 1 | Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female | 2006 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 2 | A Love Letter to Europe | 2019 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia | ||
| 3 | The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht: Voices from the Front Line of Scotland's Battle for Women's Rights | 2024 | Buy from Amazon U.S / Intl. Buy from Amazon Australia |
About the Author
Joanne "Jo" Murray, OBE (née Rowling), better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived whilst on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, and been the basis for a popular series of films.