Discworld Books in Order
Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy series set on a flat world balanced atop four elephants standing on a giant turtle swimming through space. Across 41 novels it weaves several character-driven sub-series, the Witches, Death, the City Watch, the wizard Rincewind, Moist von Lipwig, and Tiffany Aching, into one sprawling, satirical shared world.
Publication order
In the order the books were originally released.
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Buy on Amazon1983 · Terry Pratchett
The inept, cowardly wizard Rincewind becomes reluctant guide to Twoflower, the Disc's very first tourist, who carries vast wealth, a sentient and…
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Buy on Amazon1986 · Terry Pratchett
With a rogue spell lodged in his head and a red star looming ever larger over the Disc, Rincewind and the cheerful tourist Twoflower must survive a…
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Buy on Amazon1987 · Terry Pratchett
A dying wizard passes his staff to an eighth child believing it to be a son, only to discover the baby is a girl named Esk. As her wild magic grows…
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Buy on Amazon1987 · Terry Pratchett
Death takes on a gangly teenage apprentice named Mort, handing him the scythe and the duty of collecting souls. But when Mort lets his heart override…
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Buy on Amazon1988 · Terry Pratchett
A sourcerer is born, the eighth son of an eighth son who is himself a wizard, and his arrival unleashes raw, world-altering magic not seen since the…
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Buy on Amazon1988 · Terry Pratchett
Three very different witches, the formidable Granny Weatherwax, the earthy Nanny Ogg, and the young Magrat, become guardians of an infant prince…
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Buy on Amazon1989 · Terry Pratchett
Trained as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork, young Teppic unexpectedly inherits the throne of the ancient, pyramid-obsessed kingdom of Djelibeybi. When he…
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Buy on Amazon1989 · Terry Pratchett
Ankh-Morpork's hopeless and largely irrelevant Night Watch is roused from its drunken decline when a secret society summons a dragon to terrorize the…
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Buy on Amazon1990 · Terry Pratchett
A teenage demonology enthusiast named Eric attempts to summon a demon to grant him three wishes, but gets Rincewind instead, freshly escaped from the…
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Buy on Amazon1990 · Terry Pratchett
When the ancient magic of Holy Wood reawakens, the alchemists of Ankh-Morpork begin making moving pictures, and the whole city is swept up in the…
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Buy on Amazon1991 · Terry Pratchett
When Death is forced into unwilling retirement, he takes a job as a farmhand and learns what it means to be mortal. Meanwhile, with no one to collect…
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Buy on Amazon1991 · Terry Pratchett
After inheriting a magic wand and the role of fairy godmother, Magrat sets off with Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg to a distant city to stop a…
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Buy on Amazon1992 · Terry Pratchett
The Great God Om manifests not as a mighty bull but as a small, irritable tortoise, able to find only one true believer left: a simple, kindhearted…
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Buy on Amazon1992 · Terry Pratchett
Returning home to wed her king, Magrat finds the kingdom of Lancre menaced by the Lords and Ladies, the cruel and beautiful elves who slip through…
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Buy on Amazon1993 · Terry Pratchett
As Captain Vimes prepares to leave the Watch for marriage, the newly diversified force, now including a troll, a dwarf, and a werewolf, faces a…
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Buy on Amazon1994 · Terry Pratchett
A new kind of music with rocks in it sweeps through Ankh-Morpork, bewitching musicians and audiences alike with a beat that won't die. Meanwhile,…
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Buy on Amazon1994 · Terry Pratchett
The wizards of Unseen University are ordered to send a Great Wizard to the distant Counterweight Continent, and naturally dispatch Rincewind, who…
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Buy on Amazon1995 · Terry Pratchett
When Nanny Ogg's bawdy cookbook draws her and Granny Weatherwax to Ankh-Morpork, they take an interest in the city's Opera House, where a masked…
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Buy on Amazon1996 · Terry Pratchett
Commander Vimes and the City Watch investigate a series of murders and a plot to poison Ankh-Morpork's ruler, the Patrician, while the city's golems…
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Buy on Amazon1996 · Terry Pratchett
When the Hogfather, the Disc's Hogswatch gift-giver, vanishes, Death himself dons the red suit and takes up the sleigh to keep belief alive. His…
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Buy on Amazon1997 · Terry Pratchett
When a long-sunken island suddenly rises from the sea between Ankh-Morpork and the desert nation of Klatch, both lay claim to it and lurch toward…
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Buy on Amazon1998 · Terry Pratchett
Stranded in the heat-blasted land of Fourecks, Rincewind struggles to survive a continent of dangerous wildlife and stranger customs. Back home, the…
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Buy on Amazon1998 · Terry Pratchett
Invited to a royal naming in Lancre, a modern and progressive family of vampires decide they will no longer be bound by the old rules, and they…
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Buy on Amazon1999 · Terry Pratchett
Sent as a diplomat to the dwarfish homeland of Uberwald, Commander Vimes is plunged into the treacherous politics surrounding the coronation of a new…
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Buy on Amazon2000 · Terry Pratchett
When movable type arrives in Ankh-Morpork, William de Worde stumbles into founding the city's first newspaper and discovers a hunger for news he…
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Buy on Amazon2001 · Terry Pratchett
A brilliant clockmaker is commissioned to build the perfect glass clock, a device that, if completed, will stop time itself and freeze the universe.…
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Buy on Amazon2001 · Terry Pratchett
The aging barbarian Cohen and his geriatric Silver Horde set out on a final quest: to return fire to the gods, with interest, by blowing up their…
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Buy on AmazonThe Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
2001 · Terry Pratchett
A streetwise talking cat named Maurice runs a clever scam with a band of educated rats and a boy who plays the pipe, staging plagues so the boy can…
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Buy on Amazon2002 · Terry Pratchett
Chasing a vicious killer through a thunderstorm, Commander Vimes is flung thirty years into Ankh-Morpork's past, to a time of brutal revolution and a…
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Buy on Amazon2003 · Terry Pratchett
A practical nine-year-old named Tiffany Aching, armed with a frying pan and a sharp mind, discovers she has the makings of a witch when her little…
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Buy on Amazon2003 · Terry Pratchett
Determined to find her missing brother, a young woman named Polly cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy to enlist in the army of a small,…
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Buy on Amazon2004 · Terry Pratchett
Now a young apprentice, Tiffany Aching is sent away to learn witchcraft from an experienced mistress, leaving her chalk-country home and the…
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Buy on Amazon2004 · Terry Pratchett
Con man Moist von Lipwig is saved from the gallows on the condition that he resurrect Ankh-Morpork's defunct and dilapidated Post Office. Facing…
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Buy on Amazon2005 · Terry Pratchett
On the anniversary of an ancient battle between dwarfs and trolls, a fanatical dwarf is found murdered, and ethnic tensions threaten to ignite…
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Buy on Amazon2006 · Terry Pratchett
When Tiffany Aching impulsively joins the ancient Morris-style dance of the seasons, she catches the eye of the Wintersmith, the elemental spirit of…
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Buy on Amazon2007 · Terry Pratchett
Having tamed the Post Office, reformed con man Moist von Lipwig is pressed by the Patrician into rescuing the city's troubled Royal Bank and Mint.…
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Buy on Amazon2009 · Terry Pratchett
When the Patrician decrees that Unseen University must field a football team or lose a vital bequest, the wizards reluctantly take up the rough…
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Buy on Amazon2010 · Terry Pratchett
As the only witch for miles, teenage Tiffany Aching shoulders the unglamorous, essential work of caring for her chalk-country community. But an old…
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Buy on Amazon2011 · Terry Pratchett
Dragged to the countryside for a holiday by his wife, Commander Vimes cannot help noticing that something is very wrong on the genteel estates, where…
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Buy on Amazon2013 · Terry Pratchett
When a young inventor builds a working steam locomotive, Ankh-Morpork is gripped by railway fever, and Moist von Lipwig is handed the job of guiding…
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Buy on Amazon2015 · Terry Pratchett
Now established as the witch of the chalk country, Tiffany Aching faces her greatest responsibilities yet when the boundaries between worlds weaken…
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Companion & related books
Short-story collections and companion titles in this series.
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Buy on AmazonThe Colour of Magic / The Light Fantastic
1993 · Terry Pratchett
This volume collects the first two Discworld novels, following the cowardly wizard Rincewind and the Disc's first tourist, Twoflower, through their…
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Buy on Amazon1999 · Terry Pratchett
This omnibus gathers the early Rincewind novels, chronicling the misfortunes of the Disc's most cowardly and inept wizard as he flees from danger…
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Buy on Amazon2012 · Terry Pratchett
This anthology assembles Terry Pratchett's shorter fiction written over decades, including early pieces published under a pseudonym and stories set…
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Frequently asked questions
What order should I read the Discworld books in?
Publication order — Widely recommended by readers and booksellers as the simplest single linear path; publishers and fan guides note the sub-series can also be followed independently Start with “The Colour of Magic.”
How many books are in the Discworld series?
We list 41 books by Terry Pratchett , published between 1983–2015.
Where can I buy the Discworld books?
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Reading order compiled from author/publisher guidance and verified bibliographic data. Spotted an error? We continuously correct the catalog.