Suggested reading order for D&D 5e rule books?

[Vorenus]

Greetings, Adventurers!

I have read the Player's Handbook, the Dungeon Master's Guide, the Monster Manual, Storm King's Thunder, The Hoard of the Dragon Queen, The Rise of Tiamat, and the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. Next up I have in my queue Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, and Xanathar's Guide to Everything. My question: Is there a preferred order to read the last three? In other words, does reading Mordenkain's Tome of Foes build on the lore in Volo's Guide to Monsters or perhaps the other way around? Eventually I will have read them all, but if one of them is a foundation text for the next one it would be good to know that in advance.

Thanks.

--Vorenus

[bc56]

To answer your question:
No, those books do not build on each other. You could read them in any order.

However, if you read Xanathar's Guide looking for lore, you can expect to be disappointed. The guide is given almost entirely to mechanics. If you're specifically looking for lore information, I would read Mordenkainen's, then Volo's, since Mordenkainen's is setting and race lore, while Volo's is lore about specific types of monsters.

[JackPhoenix]

No. The books are entirely independant on each other.

[Anderlith]

Read PHB-DMG-MM. The players guide is kind of the meat & potatoes of understanding D&D. The DMG should really only be read by aspiring players & DM’s only. After that browse the Monster Manuel

[Vorenus]

Thank you, bc56 and Jack Phoenix.

[JackPhoenix]

After that browse the Monster Manuel

This one?
https://i.imgur.com/gBA0MVF.jpg

[Anderlith]

This one?
https://i.imgur.com/gBA0MVF.jpg

The very same