@astralstreeting I think you could read any of them without reading the others, they're not too dependent on each other overall. The sixth one is quite different from the others though, it's a lot more meta and covers his process of writing the books and fallout with various family and then he just sorta goes off the rails and talks about writing and philosophy and Hitler for a few hundred pages, I lost steam around then. So I switched to audiobook and listened while working the xmas rush to power through it... I was pretty determined to finish. But I didn't enjoy this one. Truly my struggle lol.