Taking Stock

To finish all of Barbara Michaels’s novels, I need read only 7 more:

• The Master of Blacktower
• The Dark on the Other Side*
• The Walker in Shadows
• The Wizard’s Daughter*
• Someone in the House*
• Be Buried in the Rain
• Smoke and Mirrors

To finish all of Agatha Christie’s novels and short stories featuring Hercule Poirot, I must read these:

• The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (collection of short stories)
• Appointment With Death
• Dead Man’s Folly
• Five Little Pigs
• Mrs McGinty’s Dead
• Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (collection of short stories)
• Submarine Plans (a short story)

To finish all of the Top 100 Children’s Books, I must read these:

• Bridge to Terabithia*
• Maniac Magee*
• Harriet the Spy
• Hatchet*
• Winnie-the-Pooh*
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry*
• Are You there, God? It’s Me, Margaret
• When You Reach Me
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
• Ramona the Pest
• Bud, Not Buddy
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• Wind in the Willows*
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8
• Number the Stars*
• The Great Gilly Hopkins
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
• A Long Way from Chicago
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
• Henry Huggins
• Betsy-Tacy
• My Side of the Mountain
• Out of the Dust
• Love That Dog
• All-of-a-Kind-Family
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
• The Thief
• The Book of Three*
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School
• Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Ramona and Her Father
• The High King
• Swallows and Amazons*
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• The Indian in the Cupboard

An asterisk means that I own the book, so there’s no excuse for not reading it. And because I own so many unread books, the rule is that I can’t buy or borrow any other book from a list until I’ve read the ones that have asterisks. So, no more Michaels purchases/borrowings until I’ve finished the three I own, and no more children’s book purchases/borrowings until I’ve read the asterisked titles from that list. And I’ll go one further and say no more Poirot purchases/borrowings until I’ve finished the Michaels list.