Book · 1997 · series:Harry_Potter
Harry Potter
#134 of 16,793 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 19
- people
- 17
- podcasts
- 15
- episodes
- 19
- recommendations
- 0
I was really into the Harry Potter novels at that time. They were fairly new, you know. I just wanted to sink into fiction and go to another place.
What they say about it
- Read the books5
- Sales and success“best selling books of all time”2
The best things said about it
For those of us who read Harry Potter, maybe those of us who were dweebing it like me and read it a few times in the story of Harry Potter were the muggles.
Candace Owens Candace · Feb 2026 Harry Potter which is about a boy who's an aspirational character he's heroic.
If you look up the best selling books of all time Harry Potter 500 mil.
I love the Harry Potter series.
Reginald Dwayne Betts People I (Mostly) Admire · Aug 2023 More copies than Harry Potter like that that that's absurd.
Mark Manson Modern Wisdom · Feb 2023 JK rling described this idea in the Harry Potter books as quote fear of a name only increases fear of a thing itself.
Dave Rubin The Rubin Report · Nov 2015 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
17 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Harry Potter is a globally celebrated fantasy book series following a young wizard's epic struggle against the dark wizard Voldemort. While primarily discussed in conversational contexts rather than formally recommended, the series appeared across numerous prominent podcasts. Candace Owens mentioned the books on Candace to draw thematic parallels between hidden spiritual realms and the magical world. Dr. Katy Milkman shared on The Mel Robbins Podcast that she immersed herself in these fantasy novels as a graduate student to escape into fiction. Ky Dickens recounted a remarkable story on On Purpose with Jay Shetty about a non-speaking individual who absorbed the entire series by tuning into his sister's mind. Jeff Kinney noted on Freakonomics Radio that he read the books while writing his own series, contrasting his flawed protagonist with Harry's aspirational heroism. Ruth Whippman brought up the characters on The Jordan Harbinger Show to illustrate archetypal school tropes, while Kyla Scanlon mentioned reading the series in her youth on Conversations with Tyler. Tina Jordan discussed listening to Jim Dale's audiobook narration on The Book Review, and Shaan Puri used the central conflict on My First Million to explain narrative tension between a protagonist and a powerful antagonist.
Every mention
Dave Rubin JK rling described this idea in the Harry Potter books as quote fear of a name only increases fear of a thi… 2
Discussed
“if the woman who wrote all the Harry Potter books is richer than - or whatever she bought a hell of a lot of pleasure and so on to other be right I will frequently write an author if I really like their I might be fiction or whatever you know or a singer a performer I really like that's”
Discussed
“JK rling described this idea in the Harry Potter books as quote fear of a name only increases fear of a thing itself”
Brad Barrett she was just going to pick out a book and she asked me this question it was like a Sophie's Choice type sce… 1
Discussed
“she was just going to pick out a book and she asked me this question it was like a Sophie's Choice type scenario where she basically said to me daddy would you rather me watch the Star Wars movies or read Harry Potter my brain exploded because like I want her to do both those things”
Candace Owens For those of us who read Harry Potter, maybe those of us who were dweebing it like me and read it a few tim… 1
Discussed
“For those of us who read Harry Potter, maybe those of us who were dweebing it like me and read it a few times in the story of Harry Potter were the muggles.”
Codie Sanchez and what is interesting is you can kind of tell because if you look up the best selling books of all time H… 1
Discussed
“and what is interesting is you can kind of tell because if you look up the best selling books of all time Harry Potter 500 mil Twilight 160 50 Shades 150 there're there's like kind of morphing together and so I'm curious to see what happens next”
Dr John Delony it's the reason why she will let our kids read a Harry Potter book well my 14-year-old is is past it but my… 1
Discussed
“it's the reason why she will let our kids read a Harry Potter book well my 14-year-old is is past it but my daughter's young read a certain Harry Potter book without watching it yet”
Jeff Kinney at the time that I was writing Wimpy Kid I was reading Harry Potter which is about a boy who's an aspiratio… 1
Discussed
“at the time that I was writing Wimpy Kid I was reading Harry Potter which is about a boy who's an aspirational character he's heroic Greg isn't heroic”
Katy Milkman I was really into the Harry Potter novels at that time. They were fairly new, you know. I just wanted to si… 1
Discussed
“I was really into the Harry Potter novels at that time. They were fairly new, you know. I just wanted to sink into fiction and go to another place.”
Ky Dickens one of my favorite stories is one of the non-speakers once he started communicating knew all the things the… 1
Discussed
“one of my favorite stories is one of the non-speakers once he started communicating knew all the things there was to know about Harry Potter or different books and the parents thought how and this individual said I I read them through my sister's mind when she was reading them”
Kyla Scanlon so I read the gracing series and Harry Potter 1
Discussed
“so I read the gracing series and Harry Potter”
Mark Manson you know it's like if I expected my my next book to sell I don't know more copies than Harry Potter like th… 1
Discussed
“you know it's like if I expected my my next book to sell I don't know more copies than Harry Potter like that that that's absurd that's like a completely absurd metric of success”
Megyn Kelly but instead i found harry and so i said hey i hope that harry drowns tomorrow in the lake 1
Critiqued
“but instead i found harry and so i said hey i hope that harry drowns tomorrow in the lake”
Reginald Dwayne Betts so I'm going to maybe embarrass myself but I love the Harry Potter series 1
Discussed
“so I'm going to maybe embarrass myself but I love the Harry Potter series”
Ruth Whippman and you know Harry Potter you see heray and is like this swaty kind of like School focused girl and Harry's… 1
Discussed
“and you know Harry Potter you see heray and is like this swaty kind of like School focused girl and Harry's this like slacker genius but a slacker you know”
Seamus Coughlin you know as I tell people you know my parents didn't let me read Harry Potter not because of the the Demoni… 1
Discussed
“you know as I tell people you know my parents didn't let me read Harry Potter not because of the the Demonic elements”
Shaan Puri so you know Harry Potter wants to live what's in his way Voldemort trying to kill him the most powerful wiz… 1
Discussed
“so you know Harry Potter wants to live what's in his way Voldemort trying to kill him the most powerful wizard of all time is trying to kill him”
Tim Pool If I had only read one single book in my entire life I might compare him to voldemort [Laughter] He was sel… 1
Discussed
“If I had only read one single book in my entire life I might compare him to voldemort [Laughter] He was self-made right george soros didn't he come from well look like a lowly the left apparently the only book they've ever read are harry potter that's true the thing all they ever reference are harry potter and the handmaid's”
Tina Jordan so it's been a while and I actually had to struggle to Remember When first started and it was when the Harr… 1
Discussed
“so it's been a while and I actually had to struggle to Remember When first started and it was when the Harry Potter books were coming out and being narrated by Jim Dale”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“there is parents out there that are showing their kids harry potter and telling them that magic is real”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (55: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“You plus an agent can keep basically three Harry Potter books in your head.”
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“I think liberals just in a second plug themselves in more so so they can be Harry Potter, but I think there are a lot of moderate to conservative types that won't go into the Matrix permanently the way we we think you know, many liberals would.”
Passing
“Well, it was it's written in the books that she has those glasses books.”
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“Like I'm not reading Harry Potter books. I'm not doing it.”
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“Three Harry Potter hard coverver books.”
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“They grow up and then what happens? They are adult children. They are 40-year-old dudes who dress in Harry Potter costumes and go play games.”
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“Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz.”
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“read all the Harry Potter books when I was a little kid. All seven of them.”
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“I've read Harry Potter 30 times and uh when I watched the movie I was like hermayan.”
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“Yeah, more than Harry Potter, which is crazy.”
Passing
“And honestly, they were almost all young adult fiction because mostly I just read the books that my kids were reading like Harry Potter and the Twilight series.”
Passing
“I had that with Harry Potter. I was like 11 when the books came out”
Passing
“Snitch is Harry Potter for sure. Oh, snitch is Harry Potter. Sorry, I'm getting my len snitch.”
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“I hadn't read anything that was about science or about psychology since I was in grad school, maybe. It's been great for me to just spend time reading what smart people are thinking and then having to pull that all together with the discipline of deadlines. The other thing that's been great for me about Puma is I have almost”
Passing
“So JK Rowling who wrote Harry Potter and, you know, billionaire author, right?”
Passing
“Like she she asked my wife a few weeks ago um because she's she reads all the time and she's burning through all the Judy Bloom books and the Harry Potter book, everything.”
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“Um, which is kind of amazing even in Japan beating Harry Potter.”
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“Then one day they wind up ruling the world. Like it's kind of Harry Potterish.”
Passing
“it is you ever see Harry Potter when he goes to the train station and there's that little Voldemort sitting on the ground like that that's what the Democrats are right now”
Passing
“it's not Harry Potter we're not reading spells it's not a spell”
Passing
“or will my almost daily rewatching of friends and rereading of Harry Potter hinder my ability to form quote normal relationships in the long run”
Passing
“She's like a character in a Harry Potter novel, seriously.”
Passing
“I'm telling you when I was reading this book I haven't I don't think I've read a book that quickly since the last Harry Potter came out”
Passing
“so most people think of it when like the example I even gave was Harry Potter trying to live and E most evil War are trying to kill him”
Passing
“I'm looking for the next Harry Potter movie”
Passing
“and it's one of those things every time I read about Harry Potter guy but when it comes to the movies everything I've read about like how both the parents of those kids”
Passing
“and I kept going back and forth like I I compared in the book to Harry Potter I was like is there a platform I'm not seeing here”
Passing
“it is not the Harry Potter Sorting Hat that is often branded in the media like and honestly if it were an IQ test then no one would ever be able to improve their score”
Passing
“where did I get all my badge book Suns right away because I was so focused on the love of reading that I have for Harry Potter or something like that”
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“I was actually not a Blog but favorite book of all time I'm a big fiction fan so I'd have to say the Harry Potter series true millennial Goblet of Fire is probably my favorite in the series I just you know there's so many valuable lessons and stories that I could basically reread them anytime so I have to”
Passing
“have you ever watched Harry Potter she asked this is the golden snitch it is chaos chaos”
Passing
“I'm telling you, it's probably in a Harry Potter book somewhere.”
Passing
“he goes well could you at least read the book”
Passing
“author behind the biggest literary sensation since Harry Potter., the Thursday Murder Club series.”
Passing
“i think we were even talking about a movie like harry potter and i could tell that he didn't he wasn't registering what we were talking about”
Passing
“and the 18 year old who actually listened it reminded me of Harry Potter the boy who lived there was something about it that just stuck out to me”
Passing
“And he's like yeah, they all read Harry Potter, but like they read it aloud and they read it like in the voices.”
Passing
“millennials are like the government should give me free stuff i know i should sit around reading harry potter and the handmaid's tale and get money for it”
Passing
“or will my almost daily re-watching of friends and rereading of Harry Potter hinder my ability to form quote normal relationships in the long run”
Passing
“who is watching tragically decided in the first version of it he'd watch harry potter like is this tesla's fault i don't think so”
Passing
“it's like two homeless dudes you know coming on each other probably harry potter books open you know open bro”
Passing
“How did you learn to write a screenplay? And she was like, Cuz I read a Harry Potter book one time that was a screenplay.”
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“Are you a Harry Potter fan? I'm a huge Harry P-”
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“like since I was really little I thought you know what I'm going to be a best-selling author like JK Rowling I'm gonna make the next Harry Potter series by the time I'm 20 and just live off of that the rest of my life”
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“We've been we've been treating the patient's diet like in the Harry Potter movies, Voldemort, you know, the the name that must not be spoken. Don't ask what the patient's eating.”
Passing
“he does have a vibe of like like like the bad guy in a Harry Potter movie Michael Ian Black”
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“And uh All right, Harry Potter. All right, Harry Potter. Well, no, you just you just hit them in the ass and they run around.”
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“she reads the next Harry Potter [ __ ] novel”
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“like you know he talks about Harry Potter a lot or the story of Pinocchio or just different things”
Passing
“I read Harry Potter and the coldest saucer is whatever and I was able to chat up”
Passing
“They put out books. Their big deal seems to be prepping people for the new world order, which they've done since the early days of the internet. They're still around today and still claiming the end is nigh, just as they were when Bush was in office.”
Passing
“I did a little research I see something about Harry Potter or some character name there I'm like what the hell does this have to do with me”
Passing
“and I remember when they were waiting in line for Harry Potter when Harry Potter was coming out and people would drive him by earlier yell and now Dumbledore dies at the end another”
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“you guys tell me if what are you Harry Potter no i'm not we're bartering”
Passing
“I landed I just thinking like I'm in a [ __ ] Harry Potter movie or something dude it might have [ __ ] program something in your brain”