Reading order

There is no single correct reading order, but there are definitely wrong ones, and most of them involve starting with a book that assumes you have read four others.

These are the routes I actually recommend, sorted by why you are here rather than by what a chronology chart says. Every step links to its catalogue entry. Where a step says catalogued here, not yet reviewed, the publication details are verified but the write-up is still in the queue — the book is listed anyway, because the route would be dishonest without it.