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Harry Potter: the Complete Series
J. K. Rowling · 2007 · 435 pages
recommended by 27 people
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Andrej Karpathy
“I don't think any one of the books are Amazing, but the sum total of the entire Harry Potter story line and universe is.”

Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“[JK Rowling's] position in the culture is kind of weirdly split right because on the one hand there's her continuing legacy as the author of The Wizard books and on the other hand there's like almost her entire public persona that which we mostly experienced through Twitter which is basically obsessive bigotry towards trans people that's become sort of her definitive thing.”

Sheryl Sandberg
“I would love to meet J. K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every Harry Potter book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.”↗

Taylor Swift
“So good!”↗

Nathaniel Drew
“Tell me if you can relate to this. You were an avid reader of fiction as a kid. The Harry Potter series, The Hunger Games, Bobby Pendragon, Percy Jackson. You ate them like ice cream, you drank them like water in summertime after running around at the park. You would spend hours in your bedroom, in another world, in another universe. I was one of those kids.”

Simone Giertz
“Also inspired by @thephysicsgirl that read Harry Potter in Spanish”↗

Fredrik Backman
“I’ve never really longed to relive my childhood. Except for this: I wish I could be 7 years old again, just to be able to read Harry Potter for the very first time. There are certain things in a story like that one that an adult can never fully understand. We get old; we forget how to be that smart.”↗

Phil Keoghan
“My daughter and I read all of the Harry Potter books together. I read every page to her.”↗















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