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…
Witches Abroad begins with what sounds like a fairy tale correction and turns it into something far stranger. After a dying witch leaves Magrat Garlick both a wand and a responsibility, Magrat, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg set out for…
Moving Pictures begins when the Discworld discovers cinema and, being Discworld, turns it into something far stranger and more dangerous than entertainment. The alchemists of Ankh-Morpork stumble into the magic of “moving pictures,” and the new clicks industry soon migrates…
Guards! Guards! begins in Ankh-Morpork, where unrest is always close to the surface and the city’s Night Watch has long since fallen into shabby irrelevance. At the center is Captain Sam Vimes, a weary, heavy-drinking watchman who has become far…
Pyramids begins with Teppic, the son of a ruler, trying to escape the rigid expectations of his birthplace by training as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork. That alone gives the book an unusual angle for Discworld: instead of dropping straight into…
Wyrd Sisters takes the familiar shape of a royal murder and turns it into something stranger, sharper, and much funnier. A king has been killed, his throne seized, and the rightful heir hidden away, which sounds like the beginning of…
Sourcery begins with the arrival of something Discworld’s wizards should never have wanted: a sourcerer, a wizard who is not merely skilled in magic but a source of it. Unseen University, already full of vanity, rivalry, and bad judgment, is…