@kapierce65 - calibre has to sort them by "something". Whether that is title, author, series, publication date, a custom column (or any combination thereof) - there has to be some piece of information which it can use to sort the books you see on screen.
Tell us exactly what it is you want to do and someone will have a suggestion. For instance if you are wanting to keep them in an order that you want to read them in, there are a couple of options - you could manually maintain a custom column that you type a number into, or you could use the Reading List plugin which allows you to create ad hoc lists and drag/drop them around in a special dialog. If you say they should be in a series but just don't have the numbers in the order you want, perhaps the Manage Series plugin is the solution. It really does depend exactly what you are trying to achieve.
