I started with the tenth book, Atomic Lobster, which I still think is the best. You can start anywhere, but I’d start with the fourth book, Triggerfish Twist–Atomic Lobster is a direct sequel. The best books are from Triggerfish Twist to Shark Skin Suite, in my opinion. (Though I never read Orange Crush, I’ve read all the rest.)
Thanks! Sounds like an intriguing series, though I need a new one of those like I need a hole in the head. 
Nah. Start at the beginning - Florida Roadkill. Besides being the first, it also sets up the next 4 books directly. Little of Hammerhead Ranch Motel would make sense if you didn’t have the Roadkill set-up. After that you can read them as you find them, sorta. But there are some big reveals in later books that would totally spoil earlier ones. Orange Crush, for example, would be a bit spoiled if you read Stingray Shuffle first. The later books also have revelations about Molly and Maloney that can spoil things.
Sigh. O.k.
This is going to get pricey, or at least entail a lot of library trips. Dorsey’s books are addictive. You get to read them for the first time, you lucky bastard.
I relish this kind of lucky-bastardy.
“You’ve heard of her,” I say—a challenge, an assurance. To the woman on the neighboring hotel barstool who’s made the mistake of striking up a conversation, to the dentist who runs out of questions about my kids and asks what I’ve been up to myself. Sometimes they know her right away. Sometimes they ask, “Wasn’t that the one where the guy kept her in the basement?” No! No. It was not.
I Have Some Questions for You Rebecca Makkai (okay, that’s a bit more than a sentence, but I thought the context was helpful)
“Satchel Paige entered the world as Leroy Robert Page.”
Satchel by Larry Tye
“The first thing Antoinette Ricci ever lost was her father, but she was so young when it happened that she never really felt like she could be held responsible.”
Lost in the Moment and Found, book 8 of the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire
(Though the last paragraph of the predicate Authors Note needs to be read before this sentence, and is more memorable: “I just want to offer you this reassurance: Antsy runs. Before anything can actually happen, Antsy runs.”)
“Kneeling on the floor of their suite, Tesla Crane could just feel the vibrations of the centrifugal ring as it rotated around the interplanetary cruise ship Lindgren.”
The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal
"I had just gotten off the elevator on the floor of the School of American Ballet with Doris Jones, my dance teacher, when a door flung open and a female dancer came running out of a room crying and screaming, “I can’t! I can’t! I can’t!”
Chita, by Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco.
“Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.’”
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
“Before Mr. Whitmarsh leaves for work, he does something quite out of character.”
Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen, by Annabel Abbs
I used that story in high school Speech class! It was the only “A” that I got in that class. Fond memory. No other student had a story remotely like that. I had their attention. Mr. Goodman slammed his hand loudly on the desk and shouted “A!” Thanks for the memory.
( OOPS, I was replying to “Being a Murderer, Myself.” It was your June 18 entry.)
Revenge sped toward Japan at nearly four miles per minute, borne upon olive-drab wings.
Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan 1942-1945, by Barrett Tillman
Troy returned to the living and found himself inside of a tomb.
Shift, by Hugh Howey
Glad to bring back a good memory, boson!
“Way back, they’d build houses with green logs.”
Come Go With Me: Old-timer Stories from the Southern Mountains, edited by Roy Edwin Thomas. Note that this is a collection of reminiscences from people who lived in the Appalachians and Ozarks as young people. The above is from “Log Floors in Early Houses”, by Pearl Thomas Williams.
“Even in death the boys were trouble.”
The Nickel Boys: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
“They went out from Sidon Settlement in a straggling band, clanking and crunching over the hard-packed, worn-down purple plain.”
Against Infinity, by Gregory Benford
“I was not born a ballerina.”
Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland
“I don’t think I’m cut out to be a nurse.”
E. R. Nurses, edited by James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, and Chris Mooney (Note that this is a collection of reminiscences (published in 2021) of nurses. The above quote is from Angela Parawan.