I am getting ready to run Kingmaker too, our first trip into Golaron
The Guide to the River Kingdoms is not necessary from what I can tell, but if your players want to get into the realations on their southern boarder it could be useful. Its also got a lot of neat nations that you could drop in other settings. Its almost all fluff, and has only a couple of pieces of crunch, which I personally like.
Classic Treasures is only about a couple of the more iconic and flavorful magic items. I don't have it, but from what I understand it dedicates a couple of pages to each one. The same with Classic Horrors.
Classic treasures is a must have in my opinion. It has variant bags of holding, decks of many things, and orbs of annihilation.
While "Guide to the River Kingdoms" can flesh out the general area a little more I haven't seen it make that much of a difference in the first 3 kingmaker books. Seekers of Secrets is a good book and has quite a few cool things, but its only a must have for Pathfinder Society play. If you're looking to add more items to the game, instead of Classic Treasures, I'd recommend you look at the Adventurer's Armory.
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I don't think Guide to the River Kingdoms meshes particularly well with Kingmaker. The products read like they were developed simultaneously, and don't really tie together all that well. Plus, Kingmaker only interacts with a pretty small portion of the area covered in the Guide to the River Kingdoms - a lot of it is entirely unrelated. If you're players are the real go-off-the-map types, you might want to have a copy so you can flesh out the areas around it.
Gods and Magic seems to be highly regarded. I think Sean Reynolds wrote a substantial portion of it and his articles about various faiths have always been extremely good. I tend to not pay much attention to pantheons and I think I'd skip those articles altogether if it weren't for Sean's talent. I should really set aside time to read G&M - it came out when I was busy, got put in a stack of books, and hasn't been seen since.
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First let me say I think they are all good. From what you have said this is the order I would recommend buying them in. Mostly in what I think would be the most help to you.
-Pathfinder Chronicles: Guide to the River Kingdoms
-Pathfinder Chronicles: Gods & Magic
-Pathfinder Chronicles: Book of the Damned Volume 1- Princes of Darkness
-Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Horrors Revisited
-Pathfinder Chronicles: Classic Treasures Revisited
The last 3 you could buy in any order. I would say go with what you find the most interesting. The last 3 I listed in order of which i thought was the best book in order. The first two I listed on what I thought was the most useful books.