The sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has been released in audio adaptations: the British version is read by Stephen Fry, and the American recording is told by Jim Dale. A movie based on the first Harry Potter book will be released in November 2001. Many Harry Potter resources recommend books by Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, but many books with similar themes, characters, and plots as the Harry Potter novels are often overlooked.

These books include Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) in which the protagonist, like Harry in the Chamber, must figure out how to escape from a cave where he is trapped.

Racism is a recurring theme in Carolyn Meyer's books, including White Lilacs (1993), in which an early twentieth-century AfricanAmerican neighborhood is forced...