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Books like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Loved Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from children's, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    Charlotte's Web

    E.B. White · 1952 · Children's

    A pig, a clever spider and a barnyard friendship that beats death; the gentle classic about loyalty.

  2. 2

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943 · Children's

    A pilot meets a small prince from another planet; a deceptively simple fable for all ages.

  3. 3

    Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

    Rick Riordan · 2005 · Children's

    A boy discovers he's the son of a Greek god; funny, fast modern myth for middle-grade readers.

  4. 4

    A Wrinkle in Time

    Madeleine L'Engle · 1962 · Children's

    Children travel across the universe to rescue a father; a strange, brave science-fantasy classic.

  5. 5

    Anne of Ingleside

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1939 · Children's

    Anne is the mother of five and happy with her life in Ingleside until she worries her husband may not love her anymore, so she's ready to make him fall in love with her all over again.

  6. 6

    Anne of Windy Poplars

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1936 · Children's

    Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the Pringles. They're known as the royal family of

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    Winnie-the-Pooh

    A.A. Milne · 1926 · Children's

    A bear of very little brain and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood; timeless and quietly wise.

  8. 8

    Rainbow Valley

    Lucy Maud Montgomery · 1919 · Children's

    The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley. Anne's children and the children of the widowed minister, Mr. Meredith, becom

  9. 9

    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum · 1900 · Children's

    A girl swept to a magical land seeks the way home; the founding American fairy tale.

  10. 10

    The Wind in the Willows

    Kenneth Grahame · 1908 · Children's

    Mole, Rat, Badger and the incorrigible Toad on the riverbank; a cosy, lyrical classic.

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