Terry Pratchett Reading Order

8 books (1988–2010)

Start with Gaslight & Ghosts, the first of 8 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Gaslight & Ghosts 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Drabble Project 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Hidden Turnings 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	After the King 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Now We Are Sick 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Imagined Lives 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1988–1990)

Start with Truckers and read in order.

#	Title
1	Truckers 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Diggers 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Wings 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2014–2020)

Start with Dragons at Crumbling Castle, the first of 4 books in the Children's Circle Stories series.

#	Title
1	Dragons at Crumbling Castle 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Father Christmas’s Fake Beard 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Time-Travelling Caveman 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

45 books (1983–2015)

Start with The Colour of Magic. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	The Colour of Magic 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Light Fantastic 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Equal Rites 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Mort 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Sourcery 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Wyrd Sisters 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Guards! Guards! 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Pyramids 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Eric 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Moving Pictures 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Reaper Man 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Witches Abroad 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Lords and Ladies 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Small Gods 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Troll Bridge 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Men at Arms 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Interesting Times 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Soul Music 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Maskerade 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Feet of Clay 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Hogfather 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Jingo 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Carpe Jugulum 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Last Continent 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Sea and Little Fishes 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	The Fifth Elephant 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Truth 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Last Hero 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Thief of Time 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Death and What Comes Next 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Night Watch 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Monstrous Regiment 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Wee Free Men 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	A Hat Full of Sky 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Going Postal 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	Thud! 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	Wintersmith 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	Making Money 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Unseen Academicals 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	I Shall Wear Midnight 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Snuff 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Raising Steam 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	The Shepherd's Crown 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

35 books (1993–2021)

Start with The Streets of Ankh Morpork. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	The Streets of Ankh Morpork 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Discworld Companion 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Discworld Mapp 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Pratchett Portfolio 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Discworld's Diary Unseen University Diary 1998 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	A Tourist Guide to Lancre(With: Stephen Briggs) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Death's Domain 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Nanny Ogg's Cookbook(With: Stephen Briggs,Tina Hannan) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	GURPS Discworld Also(With: Phil Masters) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook & Diary 2002 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The New Discworld Companion 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Art of Discworld 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Discworld Almanac for the Common Year 2005 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007(With: Stephen Briggs) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	The Unseen University Cut-Out Book 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment(With: Stephen Briggs) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Folklore of Discworld(With: Jacqueline Simpson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Illustrated Eric 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Compleat Ankh-Morpork: City Guide 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion...So Far(With: Stephen Briggs) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Discworld Diary: We r Igors 2015: First and Last Aid 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook: To Travelling Upon the Ankh-Morpork & Sto Plains Hygienic Railway 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Discworld 2016 Diary: A Practical Manual for the Modern Witch 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	The Compleat Discworld Atlas 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Discworld Diary 2017 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Terry Pratchett's Discworld Colouring Book 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Terry Pratchett's Discworld Diary 2019 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Death and Friends: A Discworld Journal 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Ankh-Morpork City Watch Discworld Journal(With: The Discworld Emporium) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	The Ultimate Discworld Companion(With: Stephen Briggs) 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1992–2016)

Start with The Colour of Magic. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	The Colour of Magic 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Mort Big Comic 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Light Fantastic 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Small Gods 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2005–2012)

Start with Where's My Cow?. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	Where's My Cow? 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The World of Poo 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

18 books (2003–2015)

Start with The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents(With: Stephen Briggs). Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents(With: Stephen Briggs) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Going Postal(With: Stephen Briggs) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Jingo(With: Stephen Briggs) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Monstrous Regiment(With: Stephen Briggs) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Hogfather(With: Vadim Jean) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Colour of Magic(With: Vadim Jean) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Carpe Jugulum(With: Stephen Briggs) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Guards! Guards!(With: Stephen Briggs) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Interesting Times(With: Stephen Briggs) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Lords and Ladies(With: Stephen Briggs) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Men at Arms(With: Stephen Briggs) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Mort(With: Stephen Briggs) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Wyrd Sisters(With: Stephen Briggs) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Truth(With: Stephen Briggs) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	All the Discworld's a Stage(With: Stephen Briggs) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Making Money(With: Stephen Briggs) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Maskerade(With: Stephen Briggs) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Rince Cycle(With: Stephen Briggs) 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2012–2013)

Start with Dodger and read in order.

#	Title
1	Dodger 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dodger's Guide to London: Based on Original Notes Penned by Jack Dodger Himself 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

57 books (1915–2017)

Start with The Valley of Fear(By: Adrian Flynn), the first of 56 books in the Dramascripts series.

#	Title
1	The Valley of Fear(By: Adrian Flynn) 1915Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	All My Sons(By: Arthur Miller) 1947Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Death of a Salesman(By: Arthur Miller) 1949Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Crucible(By: Arthur Miller) 1953Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	A View from the Bridge(By: Arthur Miller) 1955Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Brother in the Land(By: Robert Swindells) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	A Question of Courage(By: Marjorie Darke) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Across the Barricades(By: Joan Lingard) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Paper Tigers(By: Steve Skidmore,Steve Barlow) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler(By: Gene Kemp) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Burston School Strike(By: Roy Nevitt) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Hot Cakes(By: Adrian Flynn) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	A Tale of Two Cities(By: Steve Skidmore) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	A Tale of Two Cities(By: Steve Skidmore,Steve Barlow) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Jane Eyre(By: Steve Skidmore,Steve Barlow) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Labyrinth: Play(By: David Calcutt) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Working Parts(By: Nick Jones) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Dracula(By: David Calcutt) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Frankenstein(By: Philip Pullman) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Johnny and the Dead 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents(With: Stephen Briggs) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Canterbury Tales(By: Martin Riley) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Deamon Headmaster(By: Nick Stafford) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Lady Macbeth(By: David Calcutt) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Snake-Stone(By: Berlie Doherty) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Doctor Faustus(By: Geraldine McCaughrean) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Salem(By: David Calcutt) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	The White Rose and the Swatiska(By: Adrian Flynn) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Troy 24(By: David Calcutt) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Bog Child(By: Siobhan Dowd) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Cry, the Beloved Country(By: Roy Sargeant) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	The Three Musketeers(By: Ken Ludwig) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	Solace of the Road(By: Siobhan Dowd) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(By: Adrian Flynn) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	King of Shadows(By: Susan Cooper) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	Werewolf(By: Adrian Flynn) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	The Invisible Man(By: Adrian Flynn) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	A Christmas Carol(By: Conor McReynolds,Richard Kidd) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	The Devil Walks(By: Anne Fine) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	The Garbage King(By: Oladipo Agboluaje) 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	Arson About(By: Mark Wheeller) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
42	Beowulf(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
43	Blood Brothers(By: Willy Russell) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
44	Dodger(By: Stephen Briggs) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
45	Flesh and Blood(By: Benjamin Hulme-Cross) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
46	Homer's Odyssey(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
47	Our Day Out(By: Willy Russell) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
48	Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror(By: Philip Pullman) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
49	Stone Cold(By: Robert Swindells) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
50	The Diary of Anne Frank(By: Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
51	The Hound of the Baskervill(By: John O'Connor) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
52	The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
53	Treasure Island(By: David Calcutt) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
54	Unman Wittering and Zigo(By: Giles Cooper) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
55	Cowgirl(By: G.R. Gemin) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
56	Tess of the D'Urbervilles(By: David Calcutt) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
57	The Brotherhood of Smoke(By: Adrian Flynn) 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1992–1996)

Start with Only You Can Save Mankind and read in order.

#	Title
1	Only You Can Save Mankind 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Johnny and the Dead 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Johnny and the Bomb 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1998–1999)

Start with Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King(By: Diana Gabaldon,George R.R. Martin,Orson Scott Card,Terry Brooks,Robert Silverberg,Neil Gaiman,Elizabeth Haydon) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Legends(By: Stephen King,Anne McCaffrey,Robert Silverberg) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Legends 3(With: Tad Williams,Robert Jordan,Robert Silverberg,Ursula K. Le Guin) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2012–2016)

Start with The Long Earth, the first of 5 books in the Long Earth series.

#	Title
1	The Long Earth 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Long War 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Long Mars 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Long Utopia 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Long Cosmos 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1989–2026)

Start with The Unadulterated Cat and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Unadulterated Cat 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A Slip of the Keyboard 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Discworld Bestiary 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (1996–2012)

Start with Johnny and the Dead(With: Stephen Briggs) and read in order.

#	Title
1	Johnny and the Dead(With: Stephen Briggs) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Nation(With: Mark Ravenhill) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Johnny and the Bomb(With: Matthew Holmes) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1999–2013)

Start with The Science of Discworld. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

#	Title
1	The Science of Discworld 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Science of Discworld II: The Globe 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1988–2015)

Start with Incubust, the first of 5 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Incubust 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Turntables of the Night 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Theatre of Cruelty 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Abominable Snowman 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Shaking Hands with Death 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

7 books (2004–2023)

Start with Once More* with Footnotes, the first of 7 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Once More* with Footnotes 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Dragons at Crumbling Castle and Other Tales 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Seriously Funny 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Ankh-Morpork Archives, Vol. 1(With: Stephen Briggs) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Ankh-Morpork Archives, Vol. 2(With: Stephen Briggs) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	A Stroke of the Pen 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1971–2008)

Start with The Carpet People, the first of 5 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Carpet People 1971Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Dark Side of The Sun 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Strata 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Good Omens(With: Neil Gaiman) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Nation 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible