Friday, August 28, 2009

Book series recommendation: Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Genre: Humour in a Fantasy setting.

The entire Discworld series of book are excellent. Terry Pratchett's books mix humor, good stories and life lessons to make them a fun read. The Discworld novels are a large body of work with 36 published novels and 1 more planned for October 2009. All the novels can be read standalone. However there are a few miniseries and while there is no overarching story line, its fun to read them in order and see the characters grow.

My personal favourite in terms of characters comes from the 'Watch series' followed closely by the 'Witches series', either of these would make a very good entry point into the series. There are also 4 young adult novels, but don't let that put you off, they are good reads too.

Here are the books with links to Amazon. The series are listed in the order that you should read them.

The Watch series (Recommended as a first read of the Discworld series)

Guards! Guards!

Men at Arms
Feet of Clay

Jingo
The fifth elephant
Night watch
Thud

The Moist series (Best enjoyed if read once you have read the Watch series)

Going Postal
Making Money

The Witches series
(Recommended as a first read of the Discworld series)

Equal rites
Wyrd sisters
Witches abroad
Lords and ladies
Maskerade
Capre Jugulum

The Tiffany Aching series (Young adult novels, best enjoyed if read after the Witches series)

The wee free men
A hat full of sky
Wintersmith

The Death series (Recommended as a first read of the Discworld series)

Mort

Reaper man
Soul music
Hogfather
Thief of time

The Rincewind series


The Color of Magic
The light fantastic
Sourcery
(Faust) Eric
Interesting times
The last continent

Standalone Novels
(Read in any order)

Small gods
Pyraminds
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents ( A young adult novel)
The truth
Moving Pictures
Monstrous regiment

Link to a Amazon store that list all the Discworld books.

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