What's the Reading Order for the Sartorias-deles Series?

That seems a simple question, but it's not simple to answer when one has been writing a long, interconnected story all one's life. I started writing in this world as a child, so the early stories are kids' adventure stories from a kid's POV. But when I reached my teens, I began playing around with why this or that happened, or how things got the way they were, reaching for connections beyond the immediate, including back in history. Originally, INDA was going to be pretty much a kids' story at the academy, for ex.

The storyline grew up with me. But I couldn't just dump the early stuff because everything interrelates.

Many readers don't want to read the kids' stories, but they hit A SWORD NAMED TRUTH and feel they've been plopped into the middle of a series. Which, *kaff* they have. 

To get up to speed, my suggestion is to read SPY PRINCESS (and perhaps its sequel SARTOR). Both are from a kid POV but touch on world events; POOR WORLD, which again, is from a kid POV, but again leads straight into world events, and SENRID, which introduces one of the most important characters of the entire sage.  If you can't stand Kyale's voice at the beginning of SENRID, skip to the second part; this one is actually four novelettes/novellas centered around Senrid.  A STRANGER TO COMMAND next, and  FLEEING PEACE, the last of the stories from the kids'-eye view as they are thrown into world events. After that, A SWORD NAMED TRUTH might make a whole lot more sense.

That said, here is a list of all the Sartorias-deles stories in timeline order.</a> They are grouped in arcs:

HISTORICAL ARC

"Lily and Crown"
Inda
The Fox
King's Shield
Treason's Shore
Time of Daughters (two volumes)
Banner of the Damned

MODERN ERA

CHILDREN'S STORIES, (written when I was a kid) which introduce many of the characters central to later arcs.

CJ Notebooks 
Senrid
Spy Princess
Sartor 
Fleeing Peace
A Stranger to Command 

ROMANCES 

(they mostly stand alone:

Crown Duel
The Trouble with Kings
Sasharia En Garde

RISE OF THE ALLIANCE 

A Sword Named Truth
The Blood Mage Texts 
The Hunters and the Hunted 
Nightside of the Sun 

The Wicked Skill 

THE NORSUNDER WAR

Ship Without Sails 
Marend of Marloven Hess 
Seek to Hold the Wind 
All Things Betray 
A Chain of Braided Silver 

POST-WAR  

Let the Torrent Dance Thee Down 
Antiphony 
"Beauty" published in REMALNA STORIES
"Court Ship" [published in REMALNA STORIES
"The Art of Masks"