Although the Harry Potter franchise has pretty much been spread across every medium in 2024, it was the Harry Potter books that first truly captured the magic. I started reading these novels back when you still had to wait in line at your local bookstore for the midnight release of the next book in the series. Nowadays, there are a lot of different ways to enjoy the Harry Potter books, including illustrated editions and audiobooks.
If you're completely new to the wizarding world, it can be a little daunting. For those of us who grew up reading the books and watching the movies, the reading order probably seems really obvious. But if you just happen to have a used copy of one or two of the novels, you may have no idea where to start.
There are now even additional works outside of the main series that have become plays and an entirely new film series. To help you figure out where to begin, we've put together this quick guide to reading the Harry Potter books in order below. If you're looking at just the main series, there are a total of seven Harry Potter books written by J.
K. Rowling. These are the novels that inspired the original Harry Potter movies (which was actually eight movies).
Outside of the main series, Rowling has also published three side books which make up the Hogwarts Library Texts. And although it isn't a book exactly, there's also Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , which is a play that is currently on Broadway. Harry Potter Book Sets Below, we've split the Ha.