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729 books · 367 voters · list created December 19th, 2010 by Kerri Thomson (votes) .
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message 1: by Kerri (new)

Kerri Thomson Please only add books that do not have sequels.


message 2: by Danna (new)

Danna You know, I made a list sort of like this one. I think yours great, may I add some more books? I mean, there's so MANY books with no sequel! Every second book or so stands alone...
Could you please, please, please vote at my list ? It's called "Books I wish had a sequel". You could look for the words:" sequel" or "goodreads".

THANKs


message 3: by Kerri (new)

Kerri Thomson Hi Danna,
Please feel free to add as many books as you would like. I will check out your list as well.
Happy reading,
Kerri :o)


message 4: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (last edited May 14, 2011 08:43AM) (new)

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Should I remove A Wrinkle in Time? It has not one, but four sequels!


message 5: by Kerri (new)

Kerri Thomson Sure,
Thanks for picking up on that.
Kerri


message 6: by Laura (new)

Laura i started to vote because there are some great books on this list, but as a general rule, i don't like sequels. i find sequel books to be formulaic and ultimately to lose their power.


message 7: by Kerri (last edited Aug 07, 2011 06:11PM) (new)

Kerri Thomson I couldn't agree more. That is why I created this list, so that we could find some good books without sequels. Unfortunately some of the books that have been added now have sequels but I try to keep a lookout and remove any that I find do.


message 8: by Laura (new)

Laura great!!! i'll vote and add to the list.


message 9: by [deleted user] (new)

Who put Clan of the Cave Bear? There are about a dozen sequels to that!


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Where'd you see it, Amelia? I'll remove it if I can find it.


message 11: by [deleted user] (new)

#218 at the minute, Susanna.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Thanks very much.


message 13: by Kerri (new)

Kerri Thomson This may be a silly question but how do you delete a book off of the list?


♥ Marlene♥ Hi there. I thought that I had discovered a list, called to die for stand alone books or something, then to my horror half of them if not more where again books of a series. Well this list was what I was searching for so thanks for making this. getting sick and confused reading so many YA dystopian books that are also part of series.

I loved lauren Oliver's book Before I fall. Highly recommend.


message 15: by Kerri (new)

Kerri Thomson Before I Fall is a great book. Glad you like the list.


message 16: by Kerri (new)

Kerri Thomson Does anyone know how to remove a book from the list? Beautiful Disaster (which is a good book) now has a sequel and should not be on the list.


message 17: by Matt (new)

Matt Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind (currently at #101) has two sequels, The Angel's Game and The Prisoner of Heaven.


message 18: by Kerri (new)

Kerri Thomson Yeah sorry but I still do not know how to remove books from this list. There are a few books now that have sequels.


message 19: by Kerri (last edited Jan 10, 2013 08:43PM) (new)

Kerri Thomson I think I've figured out how to remove books from this list that now have sequels - you have to delete them from your list of books that you voted for. For example: if you voted for "The Shadow of the Wind" then you have to delete the book from your list of votes.


♥ Marlene♥ Hi. I deleted shadow of The Wind. I checked first of course and Matt is right. There are 2 sequels.


Debbie is on Storygraph Took off the following books with sequels:
Beautiful Disaster
Reason to Breathe
The Giver
Hattie Big Sky (sequel coming out this year)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Princess Academy
The Grimm Legacy (sequel coming out this year)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Stargirl
Inferno
Paradise Lost


message 22: by [deleted user] (new)

Kerri wrote: "Please only add books that do not have sequels."

What about books like Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell did NOT write a sequel but some other idiots tried. I feel they should not have been allowed to do such a thing. It should be protected.


message 23: by Evey (new)

Evey #5 Anna and the french kiss

It actually has a sequel D:


Debbie is on Storygraph Evey wrote: "#5 Anna and the french kiss

It actually has a sequel D:"


Deleted.


message 25: by Krymson (new)

Krymson I had to add Term Limits because it is one of my favorite books, with no sequel!


message 26: by Stevie (last edited Aug 25, 2015 06:24AM) (new)

Stevie Holcomb To Kill a Mockingbird now has a sequel...

These others have sequels too:

#51 Flat-Out Love (Flat-Out Love, #1)
by Jessica Park

#74 Second Kiss (Second Kiss, #1)
by Natalie Palmer

#96 Impossible (Impossible, #1)
by Nancy Werlin

#178 A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1)

#192 Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by Sarah Addison Allen

#207 Cross My Heart (Cross My Heart, #1)
by Katie Klein

#219 The Grimm Legacy (The Grimm Legacy, #1)
by Polly Shulman

#233 On the Island (On the Island, #1)
by Tracey Garvis-Graves

#243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #1)
by Mark Twain

#244 Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)
by Tammara Webber

#304 The Reluctant Dom (Suncoast Society, #4)
by Tymber Dalton

#342 Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
by Paolo Bacigalupi

#342 Letter Perfect (California Historical Series, #1)
by Cathy Marie Hake

Plus, Fahrenheit 451 is on the list twice (currently #'s 138 and 139)


message 27: by Stevie (last edited Aug 26, 2015 02:37PM) (new)

Stevie Holcomb To Kill a Mockingbird now has a sequel...

These others have sequels too:

#51 Flat-Out Love (Flat-Out Love, #1)
by Jessica Park

#74 Second Kiss (Second Kiss, #1)
by Natalie Palmer

#96 Impossible (Impossible, #1)
by Nancy Werlin

#178 A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1)

#192 Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1)
by Sarah Addison Allen

#207 Cross My Heart (Cross My Heart, #1)
by Katie Klein

#219 The Grimm Legacy (The Grimm Legacy, #1)
by Polly Shulman

#233 On the Island (On the Island, #1)
by Tracey Garvis-Graves

#243 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, #1)
by Mark Twain

#244 Easy (Contours of the Heart, #1)
by Tammara Webber

#304 The Reluctant Dom (Suncoast Society, #4)
by Tymber Dalton

#342 Ship Breaker (Ship Breaker, #1)
by Paolo Bacigalupi

#342 Letter Perfect (California Historical Series, #1)
by Cathy Marie Hake

#387 The Friday Night Knitting Club (Friday Night Knitting Club, #1)
by Kate Jacobs

#389 The Summer of Skinny Dipping (Summer, #1)
by Amanda Howells

#400 Written in Red (The Others, #1)
by Anne Bishop

#408 Just Ella (The Palace Chronicles, #1)
by Margaret Peterson Haddix

#428 Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles, #1)
by Jessica Spotswood

#431 The Seer and the Sword (Healer and Seer, #1)
by Victoria Hanley

#455 When I Was Joe (When I Was Joe, #1)
by Keren David

#457 The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by Caleb Carr

#472 Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
by Daniel H. Wilson

#497 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
by Rachel Joyce

(I may have missed a few - smile)

Plus, Fahrenheit 451 is on the list twice (currently #'s 138 and 139)


message 28: by Sally (new)

Sally Dear Kerri, please come back to this list and remove the redundant books!


message 29: by WillowRaven (new)

WillowRaven Hi!

#80 - The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) - has a sequel (The Testaments) which is actually a continuation of the first book.


message 30: by WillowRaven (last edited Feb 09, 2021 06:18AM) (new)

WillowRaven Kerri wrote: "Does anyone know how to remove a book from the list? Beautiful Disaster (which is a good book) now has a sequel and should not be on the list."

A Librarian - or someone with Librarian status - can help you. Also, they have an ongoing thread for Listopia deletion requests, here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

When making the request, be sure to give the link to the list, and as much info on which books need to be removed.

And I understand the frustration. I have checked quite a few "stand alone" list and a good % of the list has series books on them. It's so difficult to find "true" stand alone books.


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