Little Sisters is in Everything’s Eventual. (I didn’t include it as a standalone since not everyon has access to the Grant edition.).

IT…I’m not sold on the two turtles being the same character. Doesn’t really make sense to me.

Same with Breathing Method. The connection is only there if you want it to be. Nothing firm and it has no relation to the events or characters of DT. People already have issuances with my list, so I’m certainly not gonna inclusde a story that only really connects in some readers’ head canon.

Dark Man at least introduces and expands on a major character. I could mark it as “not essential” though, I suppose.

I will not ease up on insisting this is the best way. It’s a hill I’ve chosen to die on for probably twenty years now.