Reddit reviews The Annotated Chronicles (Dragonlance: Dragonlance Chronicles)

You are in for a wild ride! I grew up reading DL and have not revisited it in a long while.

This is the most comprehensible resource for Chrono & Pub reading orders: https://dragonlancereadingorder.com/. I love reading series in Chrono order. However, DL is an exception. You should:

1. Sart with Chronicles (Skip Summer Flame)
   
2. Legends
   
3. The Raistlin Chronicles
   
4. The Second Generation
   
5. Summer Flame
   
6. Lost Chronicles
   
   From there the Sky's the Limit. I would go pack and read all of the stand alone and early Chrono books before moving into War of Souls, (more of) the Chaos Wars or anything from the 5th age.
   
   I want to also share 2 of my most prized editions:
   
   

• The Annotated Chronicles
  
• The Annotated Legends
  
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  I wish Brandon Sanderson would publish his annotation in a physical volume like this. Same with WOT.

I don't think it matters, both are good reads. After those two it kinda goes down hill. If afterwards you wanted to look into other series in forgotten realms, look for:

• Erevis Cale trilogy by Paul S Kemp
  
  
• Twilight War Trilogy by Paul S Kemp - Follows up the events of the previous.
  
  
• Elminster Series by Ed Greenwood - First three or four are pretty good, Elminster's daughter is a bit of a slip and I haven't yet gotten around to the last two released.
  
  Also slightly related to Forgotten Realms (via Baldur's gate 2) is the Dragonlance series. This series is one of my favourites for AD&D. Margate Weis & Tracy Hickman are a fantastic duo, if you are at all into D&D I suggest picking up the Annotated Chronicals and the Annotated Legends. Those contain the first 6 books with notes, thoughts and stories from all the players (including the authors, artist, and close friends of theirs) in the campaign they went through.

Nice thing is you can grab the annotated chronicles for pretty cheap.