Hi everyone! How are you doing? What’s the last book you bought? I still have some unread books on my shelves from my last shopping spree, but my fingers are itching to buy some more! And when I do, I’ll probably focus on the series I still need to finish. The amount of first-book-in-the-series novels on my shelves is Extremely. High. So I decided to make a list of all the sequels I want to read soon!
How did I go about this? First, I went through my Goodreads shelves and wrote down all the series I started but didn’t finish yet. Then, I added the book titles for all those sequels. This resulted in a grand total of 143 books (spread out over 74 series) I still need to read… *sobs*
The next step was sorting these series according to priorities, in other words: which ones do I want to read first? And which are the ones I don’t care about that much? If not all books in a series are published yet, I automatically gave that series the lowest priority. This way, I can focus on binge-ing books to cross them off my list. (I’m very strict here, if the series finale will be published next month, I’m still counting them as unfinished and therefore lowest priority)
PS: I’ve reviewed nearly all of the first installments of these series. Take a look at my overview of reviews if you want to know what I thought of them.
This is the resulting list of sequels in complete series:
| Priority | Series | Author | # of Unread Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next shopping list | An Ember in the Ashes | Sabaa Tahir | 2 |
| Hollow Crown | Zoraida Córdova | 1 | |
| The Poppy War | R.F. Kuang | 2 | |
| The Broken Earth | N.K. Jemisin | 2 | |
| Arc of a Scythe | Neal Shusterman | 1 | |
| The Winternight Trilogy | Katherine Arden | 2 | |
| The Merciful Crow | Margaret Owen | 1 | |
| The Nevernight Chronicle | Jay Kristoff | 1 | |
| Must have | Bone Grace | Kathryn Purdie | 1 |
| Courting Darkness | Robin LaFevers | 1 | |
| Serpent & Dove | Shelby Mahurin | 2 | |
| The Beholder | Anna Bright | 1 | |
| Stalking Jack the Ripper | Kerri Maniscalco | 2 | |
| Cursebreakers | Brigid Kemmerer | 2 | |
| King of Scars | Leigh Bardugo | 1 | |
| Want to know how it ends | Shades of Magic | V. E. Schwab | 2 |
| Woven in Moonlight | Isabel Ibañez | 1 | |
| The Blood of Stars | Elizabeth Lim | 1 | |
| The Books of Ambha | Tasha Suri | 1 | |
| The Storm Crow | Kalyn Josephson | 1 | |
| Kingsbridge | Ken Follett | 2 | |
| The Gilded Wolves | Roshani Chokshi | 2 | |
| The Kiss Quotient | Helen Hoang | 2 | |
| The Conqueror’s Saga | Kiersten White | 2 | |
| Flame in the Mist | Renée Ahdieh | 1 | |
| Strange the Dreamer | Laini Taylor | 1 | |
| Iskari | Kristen Ciccarelli | 2 | |
| Caraval | Stephanie Garber | 2 | |
| If I find the time | Shielded | KayLynn Flanders | 1 |
| Sands of Arawiya | Hafsah Faizal | 1 | |
| A River of Royal Blood | Amanda Joy | 1 | |
| Gumiho | Kat Cho | 1 | |
| Shadow Players | Heidi Heilig | 2 | |
| Seafire | Natalie C. Parker | 2 | |
| Sea Witch | Sarah Henning | 1 | |
| Shadow of the Fox | Julie Kagawa | 2 | |
| Isles of Storm and Sorrow | Bex Hogan | 2 | |
| Circle of Shadows | Evelyn Skye | 1 | |
| Master of Crows | Grace Draven | 1 | |
| The Smoke Thieves | Sally Green | 2 | |
| Stream Raiders | Sara Raasch | 1 | |
| Mirage | Somaiya Daud | 1 | |
| Sky in the Deep | Adrienne Young | 1 | |
| Heart of Thorns | Bree Barton | 2 | |
| Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard | 3 | |
| Rime Chronicles | Mindee Arnett | 1 | |
| Empirium | Claire Legrand | 2 | |
| Three Dark Crowns | Kendare Blake | 3 | |
| The Folk of the Air | Holly Black | 2 | |
| Everless | Sara Holland | 1 | |
| Passenger | Alexandra Bracken | 1 | |
| The Great Library | Rachel Caine | 4 | |
| The Crimson Empire | Alex Marshall | 2 | |
| Blackthorn & Grim | Juliet Marillier | 2 | |
| Not going to finish these | Something Dark and Holy | Emily A. Duncan | 2 |
| The Confectioner Chronicles | Claire Luana | 2 | |
| Magisterium | Holly Black & Cassandra Clare | 4 | |
| The Hazel Wood | Melissa Albert | 1 | |
| Hibiscus Daughter | Lana Popovic | 1 |
And these are the incomplete series:
| Priority | Series | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Incomplete as of now | A Song of Ice and Fire | George R.R. Martin |
| Shamanborn | Lori M. Lee | |
| The Beautiful | Renée Ahdieh | |
| Veronica Speedwell | Deanna Raybourn | |
| The Witchlands | Susan Dennard | |
| Dark Shores | Danielle L. Jensen | |
| The Aurora Cycle | Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff | |
| A Hundred Names for Magic | Rin Chupeco | |
| Legacy of Orïsha | Tomi Adeyemi | |
| Girls of Paper and Fire | Natasha Ngan | |
| A Forgery of Magic | Maya Motayne | |
| Skyward | Brandon Sanderson | |
| The Bone Season | Samantha Shannon | |
| Gentleman Bastard | Scott Lynch | |
| Lady Sherlock | Sherry Thomas |
Whew! That’s quite an intimidating list, if you ask me. Let’s be honest, I probably won’t even finish half of these. Not with all the other amazing-sounding books on my TBR list! But a girl can dream, right?
Which series do you still need to finish? And do you prefer to read new books as they are published, or do you wait for the sequels before you dive in? Let me know in the comments below. Happy reading!
