So, for those of you who do not know Terry Pratchett, he is the author of the wonderful Discworld series, which has over thirty books I think. The Discworld is a flat disc that sits on the backs of four elephants who in turn stand on the great A'tuin, a giant turtle. It sits on the edge of reality, and is home to several people, who are the subject of the arcs.

The books are comprised of several arcs, or a little miniseries. Below, I list the character and the books he/she is in. Note, if I miss any of these just post them up.

Rincewind the "Wizzard" (Extra Z intentional.)

The Color of Magic

The Light Fantastic

Sorcery

Eric (with Josh Kirby)

The Last Continent

The Last Hero

Death who stars in:

Mort

Reaper Man

Samuel Vimes who stars in:

Guards! Guards!

Men at Arms

Feet of Clay

Jingo

The Fifth Elephant

Night Watch

Thud

Granny Weatherwax and the Witches star in:

Wyrd Sisters

Witches Abroad

Lords and Ladies

Maskerade

Carpe Jugulum

Moist Von Lipwig stars in:

Going Postal

Making Money

Susan Stars in:

Soul Music

Hog Father

So for those of you who like Pratchett, pick your favorite.

And ofr those of you who haven't read them, READ THEM!!!

Edited April 25, 200915 yr by DoctorDude234

You forgot Death and Susan and Tiffany Acheing and the Wee Free Men in series plus the "stand alone" books are just as good, oh and The Last Hero counts as a Rincewind book.

Soul Music, Hogfather and Thief of Time are my three favourite books Sir Terry wrote.

My favourite series are the Death and Susan books. Soul Music was the first I read, Hogfather is very funny and Thief of Time brilliantly written.

I like all of the books and I have most of the Discworld books, Good Omens, all the Johnny Maxwell books plus some supplemental material including the Unseen University Challenge, The Art of the Discworld, Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (technicly my Mum's) and the updated Discworld Companion.

You forgot Death and Susan and Tiffany Acheing and the Wee Free Men in series plus the "stand alone" books are just as good, oh and The Last Hero counts as a Rincewind book.

Sorry. But I did put Death in, with Mort and Reaper Man.

Oh, and have you looked at the Discworld Map and Death's Domain?

My favorite arc is Rincewind's but thats mainly because of my *signed* copy of The Last Hero, illustrated by the wonderful Paul Kidby, and is, IMHO, the best of the best!

~A.S.

Edited April 26, 200915 yr by AwesomeStar

Sorry. But I did put Death in, with Mort and Reaper Man.

Oh, and have you looked at the Discworld Map and Death's Domain?

No luck with that I am afraid, I found the others cheap in bookshops but the Map and Death's Domain may have been published before I was into Discworld and more than likely too young to boot.

So far, my personnal favourites are the Tiffany Aching books. I don't really know why, since they aren't the funniest ones nor the best written, but those characters have a little something that makes them stand apart in my mind...

And of course, Eric holds a special place by being the first I read.

But then again, they're only my favourite by a very thin margin. I love them all. I haven't read all of them yet, (I must be to my fifteenth so far) but they've never diminished in quality, quite the contrary.

My favourit is the Watch, with Rincewind and witches as a close second.

Tiffany is not a part of the Discworld series btw. The story is placed on Discworld but that is a different story

I feel lucky to own "all" the (reading) books and the maps. I pass on coockbooks and callenders. The books I buy double first in English and mostly a year later the Dutch version when it arrives.

And then we have the map of Ankh-Morpork and Lancre as well.

If you click the L below you can see my entire collections under "boeken"

EDIT: last friday sir Terry won the LA Times prize for best young adult literature for Nation

Edited April 28, 200915 yr by L-space

Um, Tiffany is in the Discworld. The Chalk is part of the Disc, hence Granny Weatherwax mentoring her, the staying with Nanny Ogg bit, the fact that in every book the Witches of Lancre turn up.... It's one of the younger reader books set upon the discworld, so I guess from that point of view it isn't "proper discworld" but not one fan I have ever met claims it isn't part of the Discworld.

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated rodents is also Discworld, he had a mention in Reaper Man.

All the "series" that make up the Discworld novels are set on the Disc and interact with creating the discworld series proper, if Tiffany and the Wee Free Men aren't Discworld, then from the same extrapolation The Watch, The Witches, Moist von Lipwig, Death, Susan and Rincewind (plus all the "one shot" stories) are not.

Bit confused to the reasoning there...

Its so hard to choose - no character consistently trumps the others for me.

Only the early books and a couple of the Vimes books fall below standard in my estimation.

I especially liked the Tiffany (definately discworld) and Moist Von Lipwig.

Maurice and his Amazing rodents could well be my favorite.

But right now the one I want to read again (I must have read them all two or three times each) is Thief of Time.

Um, Tiffany is in the Discworld. The Chalk is part of the Disc, hence Granny Weatherwax mentoring her, the staying with Nanny Ogg bit, the fact that in every book the Witches of Lancre turn up.... It's one of the younger reader books set upon the discworld, so I guess from that point of view it isn't "proper discworld" but not one fan I have ever met claims it isn't part of the Discworld.

The Amazing Maurice and his Educated rodents is also Discworld, he had a mention in Reaper Man.

All the "series" that make up the Discworld novels are set on the Disc and interact with creating the discworld series proper, if Tiffany and the Wee Free Men aren't Discworld, then from the same extrapolation The Watch, The Witches, Moist von Lipwig, Death, Susan and Rincewind (plus all the "one shot" stories) are not.

Bit confused to the reasoning there...

Don't get me wrong I do think they all feature on the Discworld.

However, technicly some are not part of "the Discworld series"

As it says on the cover of the Wee Free Men "a story of Discworld" and not "number x of the Discworld series" and on the backcover "Set on the Discworld".

I think this derives from the fact that the Discworld series (the books where it says "the Discworld series") are aimed at adults and Tiffany and Maurice are childrens books.

Be it what may, I enjoy reading them all and that's what counts in the end.