Asking for help from Philip K. Dick fans

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6. I would start with The Penultimate Truth & Time Out of Joint

They are relatively minor but both give a real sense of all of Dick's themes while still in a tight genre framework.

His best book is Ubik (IMHO) so read that at some point, but I wuldn't start with it.

Man in the High Castle, for which he won the Hugo, is about the least Dick-esque of his major novels so put that one off for a while.

This not a spoiler, but a funny theme running through most of his work. The woman with very large breasts is connected to a higher power and someone to be trusted. (And any woman described as flat-chested is unreliable.)

When Dick went mad and decided he was a first century Christian experiencing the modern world as a satanic delusion the proximate trigger was a small fish necklace a young woman (who was delivering a pain-killer prescription) was wearing.

The mental picture of Dick looking down the front of the girl's shirt and everything snapping into place is hilarious if you've read enough Dick because that's pretty much how it had worked in his books for 20 years before he got the Zap. I would bet large money as to the delivery girl's build.