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Forty-one novels. One gloriously wandering world.

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The Colour of Magic
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A failed wizard escorts Discworld’s first tourist through a fast, chaotic tour of the setting.
Story eraRincewindContinuityDiscworld novels / screen adaptationIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1983 · 2008 TV
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The Light Fantastic
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The first book’s cliffhanger continues as the Disc approaches an apocalyptic celestial event.
Story eraRincewindContinuityDiscworld novels / screen adaptationIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1986 · 2008 TV
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Equal Rites
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Granny Weatherwax challenges the idea that wizardry belongs only to men.
Story eraWitchesContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1987
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Mort
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Death takes an apprentice, and Mort discovers that changing one fate can bend reality.
Story eraDeathContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1987
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Sourcery
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Rincewind returns when a child with nearly unlimited magic threatens a new age of wizard wars.
Story eraRincewindContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1988
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Wyrd Sisters
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Three witches confront royal murder, theatre and the dangerous power of stories.
Story eraWitchesContinuityDiscworld novels / screen adaptationIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1988 · 1997 animation
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Pyramids
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An assassin inherits a desert kingdom whose pyramids have been storing more time than they should.
Story eraStandaloneContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1989
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Guards! Guards!
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Sam Vimes and the Night Watch face a summoned dragon and begin one of Discworld’s richest long arcs.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1989
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Eric
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Rincewind is summoned as a demon by a teenage would-be Faust with three very bad wishes.
Story eraRincewindContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1990
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Moving Pictures
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Ankh-Morpork discovers cinema, celebrity and something ancient behind the silver screen.
Story eraIndustrial RevolutionContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1990
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Reaper Man
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Death is dismissed from his job and mortality begins overflowing into the world.
Story eraDeathContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1991
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Witches Abroad
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The witches travel to Genua to stop a fairy-tale ending from being imposed on real people.
Story eraWitchesContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1991
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Small Gods
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A powerless god and his only true believer expose faith, institutions and certainty.
Story eraStandaloneContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1992
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Lords and Ladies
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The witches defend Lancre when the elves behind the old stories return.
Story eraWitchesContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1992
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Men at Arms
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The Watch expands while a new weapon threatens Ankh-Morpork’s fragile civic order.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1993
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Soul Music
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Music with rocks in takes over the Disc while Death’s granddaughter inherits the family responsibility.
Story eraDeathContinuityDiscworld novels / screen adaptationIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1994 · 1997 animation
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Interesting Times
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Rincewind is sent to the Counterweight Continent during a revolution powered by conflicting myths.
Story eraRincewindContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1994
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Maskerade
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The witches investigate an opera house haunted by murder, masks and theatrical excess.
Story eraWitchesContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1995
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Feet of Clay
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A poisoning plot and a wave of golem crimes test what personhood means in the city.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1996
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Hogfather
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Death fills in for the missing Hogfather while Susan investigates an attack on belief itself.
Story eraDeathContinuityDiscworld novels / screen adaptationIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1996 · 2006 TV
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Jingo
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A newly surfaced island pushes Ankh-Morpork and Klatch toward a very manufactured war.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1997
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The Last Continent
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Rincewind lands in XXXX, where time, rain and national mythology are behaving strangely.
Story eraRincewindContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1998
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Carpe Jugulum
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Modern, organised vampires arrive in Lancre believing they have outgrown every old weakness.
Story eraWitchesContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1998
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The Fifth Elephant
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Vimes becomes an unwilling diplomat amid dwarfish succession, werewolves and international politics.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release1999
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The Truth
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The Disc’s first newspaper collides with movable type, public opinion and a political conspiracy.
Story eraIndustrial RevolutionContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2000
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Thief of Time
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A perfect clock threatens to stop time, drawing Susan and the History Monks into the same crisis.
Story eraDeathContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2001
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The Last Hero
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Cohen the Barbarian plans to return fire to the gods in a lavishly illustrated Discworld adventure.
Story eraRincewindContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2001
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
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A talking cat and intelligent rats run a profitable scam until they reach a town with a real evil beneath it.
Story eraStandaloneContinuityDiscworld novel / screen adaptationIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2001 · 2022 movie
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Night Watch
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Vimes is thrown into the city’s revolutionary past and must become the mentor he once had.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2002
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The Wee Free Men
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Young Tiffany Aching arms herself with a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle against a fairy queen.
Story eraTiffany AchingContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2003
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Monstrous Regiment
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Polly disguises herself to join a war and discovers nearly everyone is hiding something.
Story eraStandaloneContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2003
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A Hat Full of Sky
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Tiffany begins formal witch training while an ancient bodiless threat searches for a self.
Story eraTiffany AchingContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2004
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Going Postal
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A condemned con artist is ordered to revive the city’s post office and compete with the clacks monopoly.
Story eraMoist von LipwigContinuityDiscworld novel / screen adaptationIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2004 · 2010 TV
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Thud!
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A historic dwarf–troll battle echoes into the present as Vimes investigates a politically explosive murder.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2005
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Wintersmith
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Tiffany accidentally joins an elemental dance and attracts the dangerously literal attention of winter.
Story eraTiffany AchingContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2006
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Making Money
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Moist is moved from the Post Office to a bank that distrusts him almost as much as it needs him.
Story eraMoist von LipwigContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2007
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Unseen Academicals
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Unseen University enters football and discovers the game is inseparable from class, crowds and identity.
Story eraWizardsContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2009
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I Shall Wear Midnight
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Tiffany faces suspicion spreading through the Chalk and the return of a witch-hunting force.
Story eraTiffany AchingContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2010
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Snuff
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Vimes’s country holiday becomes an investigation into exploitation and the rights of goblins.
Story eraCity WatchContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2011
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Raising Steam
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The railway arrives, and Moist must help the city survive the speed of technological change.
Story eraMoist von LipwigContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2013
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The Shepherd’s Crown
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The final Discworld novel asks Tiffany to face grief, responsibility and a renewed fairy threat.
Story eraTiffany AchingContinuityDiscworld novelsIn-world placementNot yet fixedFirst release2015

Suggested routes

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01 · City Watch

Guards! Guards!

Move through the Watch novels as Ankh-Morpork grows around them.

02 · Death route

Mort

A compact way into one of Discworld’s most beloved recurring casts.

03 · No homework route

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Pick a sub-series and follow its internal order; the universe rewards wandering.

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Follow a threadKeep wandering.

Forty-one novels. One gloriously wandering world.

The Discworld universe, story by story

The Colour of Magic

The Light Fantastic

Equal Rites

Mort

Sourcery

Wyrd Sisters

Pyramids

Guards! Guards!

Eric

Moving Pictures

Reaper Man

Witches Abroad

Small Gods

Lords and Ladies

Men at Arms

Soul Music

Interesting Times

Maskerade

Feet of Clay

Hogfather

Jingo

The Last Continent

Carpe Jugulum

The Fifth Elephant

The Truth

Thief of Time

The Last Hero

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Night Watch

The Wee Free Men

Monstrous Regiment

A Hat Full of Sky

Going Postal

Thud!

Wintersmith

Making Money

Unseen Academicals

I Shall Wear Midnight

Snuff

Raising Steam

The Shepherd’s Crown

Choose a way in.

Guards! Guards!

Mort

Start anywhere

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What anchors this order.

Three related universes.

Wizarding World

Realm of the Elderlings

The Cosmere

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