What’s a book you think deserves a sequel?

• if i could force one author to write a sequel right now, it would be sylvia plath with the bell jar
• i know she’s gone, but hear me out
• that ending always leaves me feeling so hollow and heavy
• esther finally gets out of the hospital but it feels so fragile… like she’s one bad day away from slipping back under that glass jar
• i want to know what happens next
• does she actually heal?
• does she find real love with someone who doesn’t try to fix her but just sits with her in the dark?
• does she write more books, travel, have a kid one day if she wants, and still keep that fire in her chest?
• i want her to live, not just survive
• another one i’d kill for a sequel is dune
• i want to see what happens after paul’s story — the golden path, the long-term consequences, the way power corrupts even the best intentions
• and honestly?
i’d love a sequel to some of the messy romance books i read as a teen
• the ones where the girl ends up with the bad boy who “changes” for her
• i want to see what happens five years later when real life hits — bills, kids, mental health, all of it
• books that leave you wondering “what happens next?” are the ones that stick with you
• they make you care about the characters like they’re real people
• and right now, pregnant and nesting, i’m extra soft for stories that feel like they could keep going
what about you? what book do you wish had a sequel?
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