The approach to finding different paths to your outcome (gaining the knowledge you want) is a good thing - however, I wouldn't limit myself to those specific books, or even reading them myself.
Maybe you could find someone who read the books and could tell you the gist in a much shorter time? Or find summaries? Or different books? Maybe you can go on educational leave for some time and get a part of the reading done?
If you restrict yourself to a specific way of getting things done (in this case having two years to do nothing but reading and surviving) you'll have it a lot harder than it has to be.
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