I'm not gonna say you're doing it wrong reading in a different order. You're just not doing it right.
Full updated reading order below:

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The RAFOO:
1 Elantris
2 The Hope of Elantris
3 The Emperor’s Soul
4 White Sand Omnibus
5 Mistborn: The Final Empire
6 The Well of Ascension
7 The Hero of Ages
8 The Eleventh Metal
9 Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
10 Sixth of the Dusk
11 Warbreaker
12 The Way of Kings
13 The Alloy of Law
14 Words of Radiance
15 Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania
16 Shadows of Self
17 Edgedancer
18 Oathbringer
19 The Bands of Mourning
20 Mistborn: Secret History
21 Dawnshard
22 Rhythm of War
23 The Lost Metal
24 Tress of the Emerald Sea
25 Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
26 The Sunlit Man