Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Da Vinci Code, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, War & Peace, Gone with the Wind, Animal Farm, Dune, The Bible.

I don’t think it’s really fair to compare them. Harry Potter was doing this during a time when reading had become a niche community. Those books were doing it when it was the popular medium for storytelling. I mean, I’d take a good book over a good movie, but I don’t think I’m in the majority.