You can save yourself a lot of time if you concentrate on just the seven authentic letters of Paul, and the four gospels:
1 Thessalonians
Galatians
Philemon
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Romans
Philippians
Mark
Matthew
Luke
John
No matter whether they give early dates to these books, or very late dates, almost every bible scholar on the planet agrees that these particular books were written in the order listed above. Yes, there are still debates going on - some say that Galatians was written before 1 Thessalonians - but that is just fiddling about at the edges and it won't have any great impact on the lesson we can learn by reading the books in the order listed here. And the lesson is that the story of Jesus is not based on facts. The story of Jesus is a legend that grew and grew as the years went by.
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