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Publishing order is best with any series, barring Discworld. Authors learn more about their series as they write them, and going out of order as a reader sometimes gives you answers to mysteries before you were ever introduced to a mystery.
Both full Discworld readthroughs were publish order lol. The last go round included Shepherds Crown.
And discworld has so much going on it prolly only matters for individual series. I have a cat named Eskarina and I'm sure a lot of readers barely remember her.
Discworld is the one exception for me because early Pratchett is much weaker, and he bashes one of my OTHER favorite authors which makes me frowny. And he has coherant sub-series with their own little casts of characters and it's easy to jump in with those. (I started with Guards! Guards! and the Night Watch and went forward/backwards from there.)
Everything else though I read publish order, though.
Try Malazan. Also you can message me for a library.