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[alexseanchai]

Discworld Reading Order Guide 2.0 (flowchart image)

Which Discworld novel should I start with? (flowchart image)

There, now I don't have to google this shit or bug lannamichaels further when next I want to contemplate which Discworld to read.

(I have read: Hogfather, loved it; Equal Rites, didn't care for it but I expect if I'd encountered it same time I first encountered Tamora Pierce's Alanna (published around the same time and occupies the same feminist-fiction niche) then I'd have loved it; the first bit of Mort, didn't grab me at all; assorted Sam Vimes quotes that suggest I'll love him when I meet him.)

...I already have a "fandom: discworld" tag? What's on it? Oh, my explanation of how Equal Rites is the same niche as Alanna—with the note that I liked Equal Rites, huh, apparently my memory is weird. (News at eleven...)

ETA: Lanna also recommends this fic for after Watch books

Comments

[ruuger]

The Lancre witches subseries is my favourite, and I recommend it despite the shaky start it gets with Equal Rites (I think you'd like the Tiffany Aching series even more, but it merges with the Lancre witches series in the second book, so it's better to read that one first).

I think you'd also enjoy Small Gods (a total standalone despite what many reading order charts claim), which is about the power of belief, or Monstrous Regiment (stand-alone, but with cameos from other books - including Sam Vimes), which is sometimes known as "the one with the lesbians and the crossdressing" :)

[alexseanchai]

shiny :)

[fred_mouse]

Agree with all of this! Early Pratchett is a bit patchy.

Mind you, I would probably recommend Wee Free Men ahead of the Lancre Witches stories (or avoid them entirely - I read all of the Tiffany Aching ones not having read all of the Witches ones and loved them).

And some of the 'themed' stories work really well on their own - I read 'Fifth Elephant' and the Phantom of the Opera one fairly early on, and enjoyed them despite not knowing much of the world.

[auguris]

Hey, thanks for posting this! I've considered reading Discworld now and again, but it's a long series and a little daunting.

[alexseanchai]

Glad to help!

[wohali]

i *love* the rincewind novels. Highly recommend those.

[alexseanchai]

Cool, thanks :)

[conuly]

Personally, my favorites are Truth and the Moist books - pity he didn't manage to make any more of those :(

[alexseanchai]

Shiny :)

well, not the sad part obv

[conuly]

Yes. Unfortunately, when it took him, it took him fast - Unseen Academicals is barely readable, and I only managed Raising Steam once. Didn't even bother with the last Tiffany book - I've been told it's a perfectly fine book, but it reads like it was written by somebody else. And maybe it was :(

[alexseanchai]

*nod* :(

[meepettemu]

This is brilliant!

[alexseanchai]

:)