The Real first and Presumed first

[Wayfarer]

Originally Posted by mithrand1r

I am inclined to say read MN first, but I do not think you can go wrong regardless of which book you read first.

The way the Chronicles are set up, most of them don't need to be read in chronological order. There are significant chronological gaps between most of them, and the setting changes enough between stories that you can read any of them as a stand alone without much confusion.