I would say to go publishing order . But since you ask you being ocd about it probably won ' t bother you so . Read the best ones first . Nightwatch , Going Postal , Monstrous Regiment are my favourites . Then you can go back and read everything in order . <| sep |> It depends a lot on what you ' re trying to protect yourself against . The Snoopers C h a r t e r s n o o p e r s c h a r t e r a l l y o u e v e r w a n t edtoknowanddidntdaretoask covers residential ISPs and wouldn ' t dare interfering with datacenter connections . Any VPN servers in the UK are likely to be in datacenters . If your VPN provider is not based in the UK , where they could eventually be forced to reveal UK server ' s logs , you should be pretty safe in that regard . Please take all the above with a pinch of salt , but you ' re probably okay if you just want to preserve privacy , keep your ISP in the dark or avoid ISP throttling for certain protocols .