Jingo
Jingo is a Discworld novel set in Ankh-Morpork and centered on Sam Vimes and the City Watch, but its real subject is what happens when politics, pride, and public feeling start pushing ordinary tensions toward war. The story begins when…
Jingo is a Discworld novel set in Ankh-Morpork and centered on Sam Vimes and the City Watch, but its real subject is what happens when politics, pride, and public feeling start pushing ordinary tensions toward war. The story begins when…
Hogfather is a Discworld novel built around Death and Susan Sto Helit, and it uses the festive season of Hogswatch as the starting point for a much stranger crisis. When belief in the Hogfather begins to fail, Death steps in…
Feet of Clay is a Discworld novel set in Ankh-Morpork and centered on Commander Sam Vimes and the City Watch. The story opens with a pair of linked mysteries: someone is killing seemingly harmless old men, and Lord Vetinari has…
Maskerade is a Discworld novel that brings the witches into the world of opera, performance, and backstage intrigue. The story centers on Agnes Nitt, a young woman from Lancre who goes to Ankh-Morpork hoping to make a career with her…
Interesting Times is a Discworld novel built around Rincewind, the chronically unwilling wizard who keeps finding himself at the center of events he would much rather avoid. This time he is drawn into turmoil in the Agatean Empire, where political…
Soul Music is one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels and the third book in the Death sequence, though it can still be read on its own. It brings the series into collision with “music with rocks in,” Pratchett’s comic fantasy…
Men at Arms is a Discworld novel set in Ankh-Morpork and focused on the City Watch, making it one of Terry Pratchett’s police-centered fantasies rather than one of the more overtly magical branches of the series. The story follows Captain…
Lords and Ladies is a Discworld novel centered on the Lancre witches, especially Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick. The story begins when they return home to find that dangerous old powers are pushing back into the world. In…
Small Gods is one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, but it stands on its own, so readers do not need prior knowledge of the series to follow it. The book begins in a world where gods draw their strength from…
Reaper Man begins with one of Terry Pratchett’s best premises: Death is fired. The Auditors of Reality decide he has become too individual, too interested in humanity, and remove him from the job that holds a basic part of the…