The New York times has reported that after 10 years “the Harry Potter books have fallen – as of the May 11 issue of the Book Review, which went to press last night – off The Times’s best-seller list.”

The first book in the series, ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’, crept quietly onto the bottom of the hardcover fiction list on Dec. 27, 1998. (How far back was that? Eight days earlier, Bill Clinton had been impeached by the House of Representatives.) Within a year and a half, however, Pottermania was in full bloom; the top three places on the hardcover fiction list were held by Rowling titles, and a fourth Potter book was on the way.