<p>Platinum Jubilee judge Susheila Nasta defended the choice to cut J.K. Rowling&#8217;s books from Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s reading list in honor of her 70 years on the throne.</p>
<p>During the emeritus professor of modern literature at Queen Mary University of London&#8217;s interview for BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Tuesday, Nasta said there were several reason&#8217;s that Rowling&#8217;s &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; series was cut out of the Queen&#8217;s Platinum Jubilee Reading list specifically the first installment, &#8220;Harry Potter and the Sorcerer&#8217;s Stone,&#8221; and that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s &#8220;a children&#8217;s book,&#8221; <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-jubilee-reading-list-b2060646.html">reported</a> the Independent.</p>
<p>The professor also explained that the whole purpose of the list is to highlight books that others &#8220;might not have read before,&#8221; noting that the Harry Potter series has sold more than &#8220;500 million books worldwide since 1997,&#8221; not to mention all the billions in profits from the eight-part movie franchise.</p>
<p>The famed British author didn&#8217;t make the final cut after the list of 153 books was shortened to only include 70 books by Commonwealth authors in honor of the queen&#8217;s 70 year reign.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The list is a real opportunity to discover stories from across continents,&#8221; Suzy Klein, head of arts and classical music at BBC TV shared as she noted that the books chosen were those &#8220;that we might never have otherwise read&#8221; and &#8220;authors whose work deserves a spotlight to be shone on it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The piece noted that the list was compiled with the help of librarians across the United Kingdom along with input from readers in 54 countries during a search that lasted five months.</p>
<p>Some have pointed out that if the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; books are for &#8220;children,&#8221; then they question why Australian author Markus Zusak&#8217;s 2005 &#8220;The Book Thief&#8221; made the cut, despite many considering it to be a children&#8217;s book as well.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Thief-Markus-Zusak/dp/0375842209/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ZW978P3A03XA&amp;keywords=The+Book+Thief&amp;qid=1650397265&amp;sprefix=the+book+thief%2Caps%2C248&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon&#8217;s description</a> it says &#8220;The Book Thief&#8221; is for teens and young adults. And the book is about the Holocaust.</p>
<p>&#8220;Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can&#8217;t resist–books,&#8221; part of the description read. &#8220;With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.&#8221;</p>
<p>The removal of her book comes after Rowling recently slammed a new transgender bill in Scotland that would lower the age at which a person can legally change their gender to from 18 to 16, a move she said will hurt &#8220;the most vulnerable&#8221; women in our society, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-k-rowling-slams-new-transgender-bill-she-says-will-hurt-the-most-vulnerable-women">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.</p>
<p>The famed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-deletes-trans-activist-video-with-j-k-rowling-death-threat-after-initially-saying-it-didnt-violate-safety-policies">British author</a> has been the target of trans-rights activists because of her unwavering defense of biological women&#8217;s rights and protections.</p>

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