I started my reading adventure 5 yrs ago with 3 authors reading each from their 1st to their last published and have added new authors based on recommendations from these authors and now I have 50 authors I follow reading each new book as they are released for a total of 1070 books read. So yes I prefer to start from the first in series as subsequent in a series tends to spoil plots for previous books in the series. I like surprises!