Leakey’s Bookshop - Inverness, Scotland

Happy Birthday, Harry Potter!

In honor of Harry Potter’s birthday, Who Wins illustrator Tom Booth created some incredible fanart!  

Happy 20th, Harry Potter!!!! 

World Map of literature

The Americas

Canada - Anne of Green Gables U.S.A - To Kill a MockingBird  Mexico - Pedro Paramo  Guatemala - Men of Maize  Belize - Beka Lamb  Honduras - Cipotes  El Salvador - Bitter Grounds  Nicaragua - The Country Under my Skin  Costa Rica - La Isla de los hombres solos  Panama - Plenilunio  Colombia - 100 Years of Solitude  Venezuela - Dona Barbara  Guyana - Palace of the Peacock  Suriname - The Price of Sugar  French Guiana - Papillon  Ecuador - The Villager  Brazil - Dom Casmurro  Peru - Death in the Andes  Bolivia - Bronze Race  Paraguay - I the Supreme  Argentina - Ficciones  Chile - The House of the Spirits  Uruguay - Soccer in the Sun and Shadow  Cuba - Havana Bay  Haiti - Breath, Eyes, Memory  Dominican Republic - Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao  Bahamas - The Measure of a Man  Jamaica - A brief history of Seven Killings  Puerto Rico - When I was Puerto Rican  Lesser Antilles - Wide Sargasso Sea  Greenland - Islands, the Universe, Home

Europe & Russia

Norway - Hunger  Iceland - Jar City  Sweden - Gosta Berling’s Saga  Finland - The Unknown Soldier  Denmark - Feeling for Snow  Latvia - Nāvas Ena  Estonia - Truth and Justice  Lithuania - Black Sheep  Belarus - Voices from Chernobyl  Ukraine - Death and the Penguin  Moldova - A Siberian Education  Romania - Forest of the Hanged  Bulgaria - Under the Yoke  Poland - Pan Tadeusz  Germany - Buddenbrooks  Netherlands - The Discovery of Heaven  Belgium - The Sorrow of Belgium  Luxembourg - In Reality: Selected Poems  United Kingdom - Great Expectations  Ireland - Ulysses  Czech Republic - The Good Soldier  Slovakia - Rivers of Babylon  France - The Count of Monte Cristo  Spain - Don Quixote  Portugal - Baltasar and Blimunda  Austria - The Man Without Qualities  Switzerland - Heidi  Italy - The Divine Comedy  Slovenia - Alamut  Croatia - Cafe Europa  Hungary - Eclipse of the Crescent Moon  Bosnia and Herzegovina - Zlata’s diary  Serbia - Dictionary of the Khazars  Montenegro - Montenegro: A Novel  Albania - The General of the Dead Army  Macedonia - Freud’s Sister  Greece - The Iliad  Russia - War and Peace

Asia and The Middle East

Turkey - My Name is Red  Georgia - Knight in the Panther’s Skin  Armenia - The Fool  Azerbaijan - Blue Angels Iran - Shahnameh  Iraq - The Corpses Exhibition and Other Stories  Syria - The Dark Side of love  Lebanon - The Hakawati  Israel - Mornings in Jenin  Syria - The Dark Side of Love  Kuwait - A Map of Home  UAE - The Sand Fish  Saudi Arabia - Cities of Salt  Qatar - The Emergence of Qatar  Yemen - The Hostage  Oman - The Turtle of Oman  Kazakhstan - The Book of Words  Turkmenistan - The Tale of Aypi  Uzbekistan - Chasing the Sea  Kyrgyzstan - Jamilia  Tajikistan - Hurramabad  Afghanistan - Kite Runner  Pakistan - The Reluctant Fundamentalist  Nepal - The Palpasa Cafe  India - The God of Small Things  Bhutan - the Circle of Karma  Bangladesh - A Golden Age  Myanmar - Smile as they Bow  Laos - In the Other Side of the Eye  Thailand - The Four Reigns  Vietnam - The Sorrows of War  Cambodia - First they Killed my Family  Taiwan - Green Island  Sri Lanka - Anil’s Ghost  Mongolia - The Blue Sky  North Korea - The Aquariums of Pyongyang  South Korea - The Vegetarian  Japan - Kokoro  China - The Dream of the Red Chamber  Malaysia - The Garden of Evening Mists  Brunei - Some Girls  Indonesia - This Earth of Mankind  Philippines - Noli Me Tangere  East Timor - The Redundancy of Courage

Australiz, New Zealand & The Pacific Islands

Australia - Cloudstreet  Papua New Guinea - Death of a Muruk  Vanuatu - Black Stone  Solomon Islands - Suremada  Fiji - Tales of the Tikongs  New Zealand - The bone People

Africas

Algeria - The Stranger Libya - In the Country of Men Egypt - Palace Walk Morocco - The Sand Child Mauritania - Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery Mali - Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali Niger - Sarraounia Chad - The Roots of Heaven Sudan - Lyrics Alley Nigeria - Things Fall Apart Cameroon - The Old Man and the Medal Central African Republic - Batouala South Sudan - They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky Ethiopia - Beneath the Lion’s Gaze Somalia - The Orchard of Lost Souls Democratic Republic of the Congo - The Antipeople Uganda - Abyssinian Chronicles Kenya - Petals of Blood Tanzania - Desertion Angola - A Gloriosa Familia Zambia - Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Mozambique - Sleepwalking Land Zimbabwe - The House of Hunger Namibia - Born of the Sun Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency South Africa - Disgrace

Sometimes the Strand book flags wind up in…fun places.

Bookseller humor is the best. Or possibly the worst, depending on your point of view. 

A beautiful book & all royalties donated to @plannedparenthood. Match made in heaven.

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You can buy it here.