The third book in the Harry Potter saga, following Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 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 a canon of related books written by C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, Diana Wynne Jones, Patricia C. Wrede, Jane Yolen, Diane Duane, and L. Frank Baum (The Tin Woodman of Oz [1918] features large beasts called "Hip-po-gy-rafs"). Numerous books with similar themes, characters, and plots as the Harry Potter novels are often overlooked.

Alexandre Dumas's The Man in the Iron Mask (1846) depicts the plight of a falsely accused man...