The book that touched off the craze is none other than Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first volume in the Harry Potter series, published in Taiwan by Crown.
以近年在台灣書市掀起的長篇小說閱讀風潮為例，開疆闢土的代表作，莫過於 2000 年皇冠出版的《哈利波特》第 1 集〈神秘的魔法石〉。