Every Harry Potter Book, Ranked by Readers
Rank all seven Harry Potter books head-to-head, Sorcerer's Stone vs Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire vs Deathly Hallows, plus The Cursed Child. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets1998 · Book 2
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince2005 · Book 6
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 8 start.
How the Harry Potter Books bracket works
This Harry Potter book ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone or Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire? — and after 7 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. The awkward pairings are the point: they are the calls a drag-and-drop tier list quietly lets you avoid.
This bracket runs 3 rounds at the default 8-slot size (Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 8 books in the field. The draw changes every day and New draw reshuffles it whenever you like, so the same book can meet a different opponent in round one and finish somewhere else entirely.
7 picks, 3 rounds
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 8 entrants
All 8 entrants are listed below, including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone1997 · Book 1
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets1998 · Book 2
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban1999 · Book 3
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2000 · Book 4
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix2003 · Book 5
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince2005 · Book 6
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows2007 · Book 7
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child2016 · Play script
Tier list instead?
Load all 8 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own Harry Potter book bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Choose the book you would press into a friend's hands first, not the one you think you should rate higher.
- Replay it — the shuffle changes which books meet early, and close calls in round one change the whole ranking.
- Undo exists for a reason: an early-round mistake propagates all the way to the final, and there is no shame in taking it back.
Questions people ask
How many books are in the Harry Potter Books bracket?
The pool holds 8 books. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 7 picks across 3 rounds: Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final.
Which books are included?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Harry Potter Books bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 7 choices at the default size. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other book grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 7 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two books that never met. If you would rather place the books into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 8 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these books?
Every completed bracket feeds the Harry Potter Books community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 8 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own harry potter books bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own books, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 8 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.