Is Potter a Classic?

I didn’t buy a copy of the latest Harry Potter book this weekend, but more than 8.3 million people did, breaking records set by the last Potter book.

I don’t actually own any of the books (yet), but I did the first two several years ago.

Right now, David is too young to start on the books, and my own “To Be Read” pile is too big to realistically add seven books to it and expect I’ll get to them in the next few years, so I may as well wait.

But I was wondering, as I look at the books on David’s bookshelf, whether Harry Potter will become a children’s must-read classic of the future, like Alice in Wonderland, Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island or Baum’s Oz books.

Will it become part of every well-read person’s childhood? Or is it fated to become a very, very big fad that fades over time?

Tags: harry potter, childrens classic, literature

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