The Stories
February 4 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won the Children’s Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.
April – J.K. Rowling won The Booksellers Association/The Bookseller Author of the Year Award.
June – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets won one of the inaugural Scottish Arts Council Children’s Book Awards.
June 2 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was published in the US.
June 20 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets hit number one on the adult New York Times Best Seller list.
July 8 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published in the UK.
August 15 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone hit number one on the adult New York Times Best Seller list after being on the list for 34 consecutive weeks.
September 8 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published in the United States with a first printing of 500,000 copies.
September 26 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban hit number one on the adult New York Times Best Seller list.
October 22 – In a Chicago Sun-Times article, it was revealed that, at last count, 8.2 million copies of the Harry Potter books were in print in America alone.
December 1 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award in the 9–11 years category, and J.K. Rowling received a special certificate to celebrate her winning of this prize for the third year running.
