Books like The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

Nothing to see here, traveler. Move along. Just me tracking my UMCRO progress.What is \ UMCRO?\ While, it's an \ Ultimate Malazan Chronological Reading Order,\ silly.\ 1.) Forge of Darkness 3.83 ✔\ \ 2.) Fall of Light 3.91 ✔\ \ 3.) Walk in Shadow*\ \ 4.) Dancer's Lament 3 ✔\ \ 5.) Deadhouse Landing 2.83 ✔\ \ 6.) Kellanved's Reach*\ \ 7.) Night of Knives 2.33 ✔\ \ 8.) Blood Follows 2 ✔\ \ 9.) The Lees of Laughter's End 3 ✔\ \ 10.) The Wurms of Blearmouth 3 ✔\ \ 11.) Gardens of the Moon 3.66 ✔\ \ 12.) Deadhouse Gates 4 ✔\ \ 13.) Memories of Ice 4.25 ✔\ \ 14.) The Healthy Dead 3 ✔\ \ 15.) Crack'd Pot Trail 4 ✔\ \ 16.) The Fiends of Nightmaria 3 ✔\ \ 17.) Midnight Tides 4.16 ✔\ \ 18.) House of Chains 3.41 ✔\ \ 19.) The Bonehunters 3.58 ✔\ \ 20.) Return of the Crimson Guard 2 ✔\ \ 21.) Reaper's Gale 3.83 ✔\ \ 22.) Stonewielder 3 ✔\ \ 23.) Toll the Hounds 3.33 ✔\ \ 24.) Goats of Glory 4 ✔\ \ 25.) Orb, Sceptre, Throne 3 ✔\ \ 26.) Blood and Bone 4 ✔\ \ 26.) Assail 3 ✔\ \ 26.) Dust of Dreams 3.58 ✔\ 29.) The Crippled God\ 30.) The God is Not Willing*\ ------------------------------------ All books written by both Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont about Malazan world. And I'm reading them chronologically.That's it. I told you there's nothing to see here. Except the list of 30 books.But you probably aren't interested in it. Late in 2017 authors themselves suggested chronological reading order. Which, of course, caused a lot of stir among fandom. Because, obviously fandom being fandom, always knows better than creators themselves, right? :DBut seriously. There were some fair criticisms out there. About spoilers, about key plots being ruined, even about boosting sails... Overall, fans simply, out of love for these series, expressed concern that new readers, who decided to follow that reading order, won't have that same phenomenal experience as they did.So, I decided to test this, to tweak my 'Suggested by Fans' reading order and adapt it to that of which authors prefer.My opinion, since I'm on half of it?\ New readers:\ Move away from this reading order and start with nothing else but Gardens of the Moon, first book in Malazan Book of the Fallen series and then continue onward by the order books were published.\ Fans:\ If you like puzzles, you'll like this suggested chronological reading order. Various parts of history are scattered all around in unfinished trilogies and new series and whatnot. And you get to collect them, all the way to crescendo of Crippled God, final book of the series, and you get to see complete picture. That's not necessarily the same picture you have seen for the first time.