> Having read both the Chronicles and the Legends
>series of Dragonlance books (as well as a lot of
>the "mindless drek" that followed them :-) ),
>I'd recommend the Legends trilogy to you before
>I'd recommend the Chronicles series. You really
>don't absolutely have to have read Chronicles to
>follow the events that happen later in Legends,
>so you may want to tackle Legends first.

Heathen! Blasphemer! Never darken my path again with your wretched precense!

Anyone who suggests reading Legends without having already read Chronicals didn't really understand anything about the Dragonlance books. So there.

>If you
>need to pick only one Dragonlance book, it's
>hard to say, since most of the standalone
>entries in the series aren't all that
>wonderful. I liked The SoulForge (Margaret
>Weis), Brothers Magere (forgot the author), and
>Weasel's Luck (again, can't remember who wrote
>it).

I still maintain, and will until my dieing day, that it is completely pointless to read just about any Dragonlance book without first having taclked Chronicals, and preferably Legends too. Those six books set the tone and the feel for the entire rest of the series.

That being said, if you have to pick "Just one" book that comes *after* those six, I'd say "The Legend of Huma" is the one I'd pick. Like all the Dragonlance books, I haven't read it in a long time, so I have no idea if it holds up well, but it was my favorite book of all time for a stretch of about three years or so.