Does the books of “pern” need to be read in order, or can you jump around?

Some of the books take place simultaneously so I would say you’d do better to read dragonquest and dragonflight first before jumping around to avoid confusion.

Ja Ive read the series and its better in the reading order. However they weren’t published in that way. So rather check the list on reading order, that helped me.

And yes read in order