Of course it's the best! Well, actually I'd still say POA, but eh...

Azkaban was the best.

I liked HBP best, but at least it was an HP book! WOOT!

Though maybe I'll stand corrected with Deathly Hallows...JKR says its her favorite...hope it'll be mine!

Wow! First Jerry Falwell starts his permanent vacation in Hell, and now this! What a great week. :-)

Yeah, I think PoA is my own personal favorite, but it's definitely a deserved honor.

Great:)

Go SS! I like HBP, but whatever.

Great! Id still go with OOTP though...

cool, still PoA and OotP are my favourites but PS started it all and without it being so brilliant the others would never have happened, it was such a break through at the time so thats probably why they chose it

To right its the best book! lol...

The movie ruined the book little. I would stick to OotP and PoA. But nothing would be the same without PS.

I liked GOF more but PS was an excellent book. People need to give JK her ratings. It's the movies that have made people forget just how brilliant JK is. The movies have spoiled the books with their oversimplified and retarded plotlines in my opinion.

Just wondering here, but why did they change the title to Sorcers Stone in america? I personally think the title Philosophers stone is much better... maybe im a bit prejudiced as that was the title i grew up with but still, Philosophers Stone sounds better...

well it is a harry potter book...what did you expect?????? SugarxSpu nxQuill - i didn't get that either (changing the name fo the ps) but the americans have different names for lots of things.....like jelly is jelo or something...and jelly is jam instaed....confusing.... well done anyway...all of them are brill but my fav is probably gof or poa

@SugarxSpunxQuill: Well, I cannot be sure, but since it is a name for a substance the alchemists was looking for, I'd guess that it had different words for it already... I mean, Rowling didn't invent the word "Philosophers stone", so if it had another name in american english, then they should translate it, shouldn't they? But hey, I'm Swedish, so what do I know... Neither one of them can be found in my English Dictionary anyway.

top 20 whooo!!!!! and of course

JK Rowlingg, congratulations! I'm so PROUDD!!

Naa, I liked OOTP best. Or maybe HBP. But, oh well, PS is great, too!!

I agree with RedHeadNuphar. OOTP, or HBP, are the best HP books... so far. At least it WAS a Harry Potter book

GBP was okay... But I LOVED order of the Phoenix. It was DEFINATELY the best book! After that I'd have to agree with PotterManic and RedHeadNuphar... POA was top two. Oh, by the wayThey changed the name from Philosophers sone to Sorceres stone in America because there are different names. They both basically mean the same thing though.

Well it was the book that started it out, the one that introduced us to the magic. It was the one that had me craving for more. GOF is my fav out of all though, then it goes to HBP.

The Philosopher's Stone was (is) a mythical substance that could be used to turn any metal into gold. It was around way before JKR was a glint in anyone's eye. :-) They changed the title to Sorcerer's Stone in America because they felt that Americans wouldn't pick up a book with the word "Philosopher' in the title. After all, everyone knows that we Americans all walk around falling down and bumping into stuff cuz weer so dum, u no. :-)

Everything begann with this book. All the mystery and magic of the Potter Universe. Good choice!

I agree with Quiscalus: HBP is my favourite, too, but any HP book is perfect and will outdo all competition regardless! I think I'll be going to a Waterstones party on July 20th midnight - anyone going to any parties in the South Wales area, perchance? :-)

HBP is my favorite and did anyone find the 3:00 question? i looked at every page.

The best in 25 years? Best out of *all* books from the last 25 years? For goodness sake, leave the exaggerated claims to the fangirls!

GoF and HBP are my favorite books, but I also loved P/SS, the one that started it all. I'm just glad they said one of the HP books was the best book in 10 years- they couldn't have been more right about that:)

Nimue, it's just one bookstore chain. And it's a few months before the next (last) HP book comes out. Publicity!

Thats exciting, but SS is the worst book in the series. You would think that one of the others would have won.

Thanks to sticky, Northern_light, hogwartsempress and AnyaMarcos for helping to clear up my question! Its just one of those things i've always wondered, so thanks again!! xxx

na eldest was better then hp #1.. #4 was best

Wow...I really love Philosopher's Stone, but seriously, best book in 25 years? There have got better books than that... I mean, that's not even my favorite HP book. It's not really the best book in 25 years. I would be really sad if it was, because as cool as that would be, that would mean a lot of the "not greatest" books would really suck. You know what I'm saying? I love HP more than anything in the world, but come on... There's really nothing better?

Gof is better

Awesome! :)

i dont disagree. yay!

yay!!!

harry potters not the best book that iv'e read [but that still doesn't mean it's not good!] but, i must admit, it IS a bit funny. I think Malfoy is the funniest charater, but I like Ron the best ^^

PS is like a magazine in comparison to the last 3 books released.

Yay!

WOW!!! that is amazing!!!!!!! but i would probably say HBP... lol but still a hp book right???? lol, gooo jo!!! u r the best writer ever!!!!!!!!1

thats awesome! i still like OOTP and HBP the best, but i lurve PS/SS, too...i lurve all the books

Awsome!!! Well she is the best author ever so im not soo surprized but i still think that HBP or GoF was better :P i like smillies =D GO SMILLIES! :)

POA, is soo mmy homie gee, but i think you sould do a survey on every1's fave after the 6th comes out... (i'd like to see this movie because WHEN harry dies, i;ll pretend that dan is really dying fo sho!)

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PoA was okay, But I like the GoF the best!

NIICE dude!!! thats tiight gottas love that book. its defiantly a keeper forever!

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IMO, the movies aren't at all resemblent to the books they represent, it's that they change little things that don't need to be changed- like in the COS book Prof. Binns told them the legend of the Chamber of Secrets (our very favorite Headmistress told them in the movie)- no one gained anything by that being changed, it wasn't any faster or more effective with her telling them but it made a big difference (at least to me) that they sacrificed the acuracy of the film for no apprent reason. GOF was my fave book, just because about everything fell into place at the end, there was alot of build-up during it with people being murdered randomly or being kidnapped (Bertha Jorkins) that tied it up so nicely. SS (or PS) was (I think) the most acurate movie of the HPs.

Rubbish. PS is either the worst or the second worst of the series. Just because its the foundation stone of a whole empire...blah, blah, blah. StM