19 Books You Wish There Were Sequels To
When
we really love a novel, we can't just let it go at "the end."
By Dawn Raffel
6 of 19
Gone Girl
By Gillian Flynn
422 pages;
Broadway Books
Why
We Love It:
Flynn made us forget our own problems—actually, she made us forget
our own lives—while we tore through the
story of Nick and Amy Dunne, quite possibly the world's most dysfunctional
couple. Afterward, we kept asking two questions: How well do we really know the
people around us? And, are there any other novels like that
one?
The
Sequel: Surely, a couple this perversely perfect for each other
has many more years of (riveting) nasty machinations ahead of them. Gone
Girl begins with Amy's disappearance on the Dunnes' fifth wedding
anniversary. Let's set this one on their tenth anniversary—when baby
enters preschool.
— Dawn Raffel
Published 05/20/2016
