Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
Today’s topic is a broad one: books that we wish had more/less of X. I could list a multitude of books that need more romance, horror novels that need more terror, so instead of nitpicking specific issues I decided to nitpick quantity. Speaking of quantity, I couldn’t settle on 10. It is what it is.
Agnes and the Hitman by Jennifer Crusie & Bob Mayer
I’ve read many, many books over the years but Agnes has always stayed shining in my memory. She deserves more books.
The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
Levithan’s writing style in this will always be one of my favorites. More stories should be written in such a way.
School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins
I remember when this was supposed to be the start of a new series but then it wasn’t and ended up just being grouped in with Hex Hall. Izzy deserves her own series.
The Awesome by Eva Darrows
Maggie Cunningham is so fantastically snarky that I would love to read about her future antics.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Maybe Ernest Cline could come up with story where a sequel to OASIS was found in some attic like they keep claiming with Michael Crichton books.
Paradox series by Rachel Bach
MORE DEVI SPACE ADVENTURES. Rupert can come too, please.
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
I mean, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny grow up. They aren’t like those Land Before Time dinosaurs… so let’s have some grown up adventures, yeah?
Brian Froud’s Faerielands series
Each of these books are based off Brian Froud’s art. Each of the four are fantastic and I would love to see more stories based off his art.
Locke & Key series by Joe Hill
Joe Hill has always been one of my favorite horror authors but he knocks it out of the park with these graphic novels. I’d love to see more in this world.
Indexing series by Seanan McGuire
I’m not sure if more books are being planned but I sure hope so. McGuire’s dark fairy tales series is so much fun.
Newsflesh series by Mira Grant
I adored the original trilogy and the short stories are phenomenal but Feedback was… no.
Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
WHY DIDN’T SHE JUST LEAVE IT AT FIVE. Everything after Shadowfever (Iced and beyond) has been not good (yet I keep reading them). The latest, Feversong, is supposed to be the final installment. We’ll see if that sticks.
All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
I loved A Discovery of Witches but the following two installments in the trilogy were such an epic disappointment. I’m not sure where the series went wrong but wrong it went.
Me Before You series by Jojo Moyes
While I didn’t dislike After You as a great many did, I can agree that it was wholly unnecessary. Me Before You was a heartbreaking story but was complete and should have been left to stand on its own.
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
I love this series. But the last one? Holy hell, what a chore to get through. While the history of the time period is fascinating, it seems to be the story instead of the story that Gabaldon creates. I’ll keep reading them because I think the end is near, but I’d love if we could get back to what made these fantastic in the beginning.
Oh my gosh, I loved The Awesome! I’ve never met anyone else that’s read it!
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Terrible. More people need to read it! 🙂
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I haven’t read them yet, but I seem to remember something about Rachel’s ‘spirit’ series and that she was starting something new. Too bad it didn’t turn out to be anything more. I think I do own the first book (of the original series), so I’ll have to read it. 🙂
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Hex Hall was fun but I actually enjoyed School Spirits even more! Maybe it’ll happen someday. 🙂
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I completely agree with you, After You wasn’t necessary. Me Before You was beautiful enough on its own. Great list! 🙂
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Thanks, Chrissi!
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I totally agree with Ready Player one. I need more of it! And yeah, After You was unnecessary. Me Before You was painfully heartbreaking, and already doing well on its own.
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Yep! I wish authors would leave standalones as they are!
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Top Ten Tifteen, eh? 🙂
It’s got a nice ring to it, no?
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YES READY PLAYER ONE. I so wish I could see more of the world. I haven’t read Cline’s other book, but I am excited to see the movie. I just really hope they don’t screw it up, fingers crossed!
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Armada wasn’t nearly as good, but still enjoyable! And yes, I’m so very excited for the movie.
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Haven’t read After You but don’t need to. Sometimes authors simply shouldn’t capitalise on the success of a book by adding another. One that springs to mind is the sequel to The Rosie Project (which was The Rosie Effect). It was terrible.
You’re quite right. With the abundant series these days it doesn’t seem like authors can just stick with a standalone.
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While I found After You brutally believable in the story of Will’s walking away in his prior life (kind of a dead obvious metaphor though) I agree–the first was heartbreaking and beautiful. Outlander? One book was plenty for me. How much forced sex do I want to read…um…not that much, thanks. And, I love all things to do with Scotland, it’s history and a good romp thru the sheets never hurts a good book. Sadly romps in this book were not my thing!
I totally agree that Me Before You should have been a standalone. I didn’t even consider reading the sequel because it felt like there shouldn’t have been one.
I wasn’t planning on it either actually. It ended up being a spur of the moment library checkout and it wasn’t terrible but I certainly could have done without it.
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Oh gosh. I really hated Me After You. Such a let down. I haven’t gone on with the Harkness series, now I don’t want to. I lost interest in the Outlander series a long time ago. Great post, Bonnie.
The Harkness series got oddly historical and all that special, fun magic in the first one just disappeared… it was unfortunate.
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