Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Anticipated Sequels

It's Top Ten Tuesday Time hosted by the amazing people over at The Broke and the Bookish.  So I guess it's time for a confession.  I don't go out and get a book I'm absolutely dying to read on the day it comes out.  If there's the slightest whiff of cliffhanger I wait until I can get at least 2 at once.  Obviously in a long running series it isn't possible to own all 15 books before I start reading (though I have tried) but I normally have at least 2 or 3.  If it's a trilogy or quartet I generally wait until I have all 3 or 4.  So for my Top Ten Anticipated Sequels I'm kind of drawing a blank.  After lots of thinking I went with the books that made me go buy the sequel or the next one in the series while I was still reading the first and then the authors whose books I request without without even reading the summary.

1.  Spackled and Spooked by Jennie Bentley - I love this series!  It's not a flawless cozy series but I love the home renovation mixed with mystery and love reading what Avery is getting up too.  There's always a little history connected to the mystery which is always a win for me.

2.  Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay - McKinlay is one of my favorite cozy authors and the library series is my favorite of her series.  She's a librarian!  How can I not love that?

3.  Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott - So while this sequel was probably published 100 years before I was born it took forever for me to find it!  I read Eight Cousins which was hands down my favorite Alcott book before the internet and the all reaching power of Amazon.  Finding this book took years and tons of searching.  I can still remember how excited I was when I finally had a copy in my hands!

4.  Treasure on Lilac Lane by Donna Alward - About 2/3 into The House on Blackberry Hill I knew I had to spend more time in Jewell Cove and went out and found Lilac Lane.  I'm really looking forward to reading it!

5.  Hollow City by Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine was weird but kind of awesomely weird and I wanted to see where the story goes.  Of course the sequel's been out for awhile and I still haven't read it but I'm looking forward to it.

6.  Nora Roberts - While I haven't loved every book she's written and I'd like to forget about pretty much every book she wrote in the 80s all I need to see is Nora Roberts on the cover and the book gets bought.

7.  Julia Quinn - Another romance author that I immediately buy.  I don't even have to look at the blurb!

8.  Tony Horwitz - I kind of want to be Tony Horwitz.  He comes up with great topics - like traveling Captain Cook's route and then does them and writes fascinating books that are informative and entertaining.  His book Baghdad Without a Map taught me more about the Middle East than anything else and made me laugh until I cried!

9.  Laurie R. King - I love Her Holmes/Russell series and even though I'm a few books behind it's always a series I look forward to revisiting.

10. Deborah Crombie - Basically everything I said about King!  Her Kincaid/James series is absolutely one of my favorite mystery series and her books are always on my autobuy list!