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edited 2026-05-21A complete reading order for Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld — all 41 novels from The Colour of Magic (1983) to The Shepherd's Crown (2015). Includes the traditional publication order and a sub-series reading order that follows one character thread at a time (Rincewind, the Witches, Death, the City Watch, Tiffany Aching, and the Industrial Revolution of Ankh-Morpork).
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01NOVEL
1983The first Discworld novel, published in November 1983 by Colin Smythe. Failed wizard Rincewind is forced to guide Twoflower, the Disc's firs…
205 pp›02NOVEL
1986Direct sequel to The Colour of Magic, picking up moments after the cliffhanger. Rincewind and Twoflower are returned to the Disc by the Octa…
216 pp›03NOVEL
1987The first Witches novel and the first time the Discworld breaks free of pure parody to tackle a social issue. Dying wizard Drum Billet passe…
200 pp›04NOVEL
1987The first Death novel, published in November 1987 by Gollancz. An awkward teenager named Mort is taken on as Death's apprentice and discover…
224 pp›05NOVEL
1988The fifth Discworld novel, returning to Rincewind. The eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son, Coin, becomes a source of magic — a sou…
256 pp›06NOVEL
1988The second Witches novel, completing the trio of Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick. After the king of Lancre is murdered by h…
251 pp›07NOVEL
1989The first City Watch novel and the introduction of Captain Sam Vimes, Sergeant Colon, Corporal Nobbs, and the impossibly upstanding rookie C…
317 pp›08NOVEL
1989A standalone Discworld novel set largely outside Ankh-Morpork. Teppic, crown prince of the Ancient-Egypt-analogue kingdom of Djelibeybi, tra…
272 pp›09NOVEL
1990A short illustrated Discworld novel parodying the Faust legend. Teenage demonologist Eric Thursley summons a demon to grant his three wishes…
160 pp›10NOVEL
1990A standalone Discworld novel set in and around Ankh-Morpork. The alchemists discover a way to capture moving images on octocellulose film, a…
279 pp›11NOVEL
1991The second Death novel. The Auditors of Reality decide Death has developed too much personality and force him into retirement; he takes a jo…
253 pp›12NOVEL
1991The third Witches novel. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick travel to the foreign city of Genua, where Magrat has inherited a…
252 pp›13NOVEL
1992The fourth Witches novel, returning to Lancre as Magrat prepares to marry King Verence. Crop circles on the Dancers (a stone circle marking…
288 pp›14NOVEL
1992A standalone Discworld novel set in the theocratic empire of Omnia, hundreds of years before the rest of the series. The Great God Om, expec…
288 pp›15NOVEL
1993The second City Watch novel. Captain Vimes is preparing to retire and marry Lady Sybil Ramkin; in his absence Corporal Carrot inherits the d…
288 pp›16NOVEL
1994The fifth Rincewind novel. Rincewind is teleported from a desert island to the Agatean Empire — a Discworld parody of imperial China — to fu…
283 pp›17NOVEL
1994The third Death novel and the first to feature his granddaughter Susan Sto Helit. Death, grieving the loss of his adopted daughter Ysabell a…
288 pp›18NOVEL
1995The fifth Witches novel. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg travel to Ankh-Morpork to recruit local witch Agnes Nitt — who has fled to the Ankh…
285 pp›19NOVEL
1996The third City Watch novel. Lord Vetinari is being slowly poisoned; two elderly men have been murdered seemingly by a golem; and the golems…
288 pp›20NOVEL
1996The fourth Death novel. The Auditors of Reality hire the Assassins' Guild to inhume the Hogfather, the Discworld's Father-Christmas-equivale…
285 pp›21NOVEL
1997The fourth City Watch novel. A long-submerged island, Leshp, rises from the Circle Sea exactly between Ankh-Morpork and the Klatchian city o…
288 pp›22NOVEL
1998The sixth Witches novel. King Verence of Lancre invites the Magpyr family of modernised, immune-to-garlic-and-religious-symbols vampires to…
285 pp›23NOVEL
1998The sixth Rincewind novel. Rincewind, marooned on the unmapped continent of XXXX (Pratchett's affectionate parody of Australia), is informed…
280 pp›24NOVEL
1999The fifth City Watch novel. Sam Vimes is dispatched as Ankh-Morpork's ambassador to Überwald — werewolf, vampire, and dwarf territory — to a…
317 pp›25NOVEL
2000A Discworld novel that launches the Ankh-Morpork modernisation thread later carried by Moist von Lipwig. William de Worde, hired writer of a…
319 pp›26NOVEL
2001A standalone Discworld novel and Pratchett's first deliberately written for younger readers. Maurice, a sentient cat, and a band of newly-in…
209 pp›27NOVEL
2001A short illustrated Discworld novel by Pratchett and artist Paul Kidby. Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde decide to return fire to th…
160 pp›28NOVEL
2001The fifth Death novel. The Auditors of Reality commission Ankh-Morpork clockmaker Jeremy Clockson to build a glass clock that will trap and…
316 pp›29NOVEL
2002The sixth City Watch novel and a turning point in the series' tone. Pursuing the murderer Carcer through the Unseen University library durin…
368 pp›30NOVEL
2003A standalone Discworld novel set in Borogravia, a militaristic Balkans-analogue nation perpetually at war with neighbouring Zlobenia. Polly…
329 pp›31NOVEL
2003The first Tiffany Aching novel. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching, growing up on the Chalk in a family of shepherds, sees things others don't — a…
318 pp›32NOVEL
2004The second Tiffany Aching novel. Eleven-year-old Tiffany leaves the Chalk to apprentice with the elderly witch Miss Level in the Ramtops, an…
349 pp›33NOVEL
2004The first Moist von Lipwig novel and the start of the Ankh-Morpork Industrial Revolution arc. Career conman Moist von Lipwig, executed-then-…
352 pp›34NOVEL
2005The seventh City Watch novel. A dwarf demagogue is found murdered in his deep-Ankh-Morpork cavern; ethnic tensions between dwarfs and trolls…
362 pp›35NOVEL
2006The third Tiffany Aching novel. Thirteen-year-old Tiffany, apprenticing under the dour witch Miss Treason, accidentally inserts herself into…
399 pp›36NOVEL
2007The second Moist von Lipwig novel. Bored with running a now-functional Post Office, Moist is press-ganged by Lord Vetinari into reforming th…
350 pp›37NOVEL
2009A standalone Discworld novel set at Unseen University. To preserve a sizeable financial endowment, the wizards must field a football team —…
400 pp›38NOVEL
2010The fourth Tiffany Aching novel. Now fifteen and the working witch of the Chalk, Tiffany is the only person nursing the dying old Baron. Aft…
349 pp›39NOVEL
2011The eighth City Watch novel. Commander Vimes is dragged on holiday to the Ramkin country estate at Crundells, where his policeman's instinct…
400 pp›40NOVEL
2013The third Moist von Lipwig novel. Young engineer Dick Simnel arrives in Ankh-Morpork with a working steam locomotive named Iron Girder; entr…
380 pp›41NOVEL
2015The fifth and final Tiffany Aching novel and the last Discworld novel. With the death of Granny Weatherwax, Tiffany inherits both the Chalk'…
333 pp›