Kaku-Ryu

I picked up a few books by Terry Brooks and I was just wondering how you're suppose to read them. Inside the book it says all the books he wrote and it says in one group "Shannara" and I have all the books under that.
But THEN it says "The Heritage of Shannara" and "The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara"
Are all the books part of the same series with the same characters or what? Or are they each a new group about something a little different with new characters?

__________________
I’m so sane that it drives me insane. So to stop myself from being insane, I must not be sane.

PamHKyle

The list (in the right order) is on his website (www.terrybrooks.net) under 'novels'

__________________
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want. (Irving Kristol)

Keep a stiff upper lip, because your lower one is trembling. (William Shatner)