What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s second Harry Potter novel?

J.K. Rowling’s second Harry Potter novel is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

The book was published in the United Kingdom in 1998, following Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It returns Harry to Hogwarts for his second school year, where a hidden chamber is connected to a series of attacks on students.

The story introduces or develops important parts of the wider mythology, including the diary of Tom Riddle, the basilisk, and the house-elf Dobby. Readers sometimes mix up its title with the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which concerns Sirius Black and Harry’s family history.

The American edition uses the title Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, just as the British edition does. Unlike the first novel, whose American title changes “Philosopher’s Stone” to “Sorcerer’s Stone,” the second title remained the same in the United States.