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1. Night Watch

2. Small Gods

3. Monstrous Regiment

Remaining books:

The Colour of Magic

The Light Fantastic

Equal Rites

Mort

Sourcery

Wyrd Sisters

Pyramids

Guards! Guards!

Eric

Moving Pictures

Reaper Man

Witches Abroad

Small Gods

Lords and Ladies

Men at Arms

Soul Music

Interesting Times

Maskerade

Feet of Clay

Hogfather

Jingo

The Last Continent

Carpe Jugulum

The Fifth Elephant

The Truth

Thief of Time

The Last Hero

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

Night Watch

The Wee Free Men

Monstrous Regiment

A Hat Full of Sky

Going Postal

Thud!

Wintersmith

Making Money

Unseen Academicals

I Shall Wear Midnight

Snuff

Raising Steam

The Shepherd's Crown

Not a direct reference, but these pugs reminded me of Lords Venturi and Selacchii in Night Watch.

Also a bit of Lord Rust when they become belligerent.

1. Nanny Ogg
2. Scumble
3. ...Well, mostly apples.

Is the part that isn't apples another intoxicant or entheogen, or is it just the yeast and maybe spices?

I was recently perusing the reading order guide infographic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Discworld_Reading_Order_Guide_3.0.jpg and theres a minor connection between Faust Eric and Moving Pictures.

Does anyone know what the connection is?

I'm rereading Nightwatch and it just hit me. When Sweeper takes a key from around his neck and inserts it into a small door, leaving Vimes behind in the Inner City Garden of Tranquility and through a time portal to 700,000 years before? Who is he going to see? James Bond fans will appreciate that he's going to see Q (Qu) and frankly I don't know why I never realized it before. 🤦

Hi again,

Another line I don't get:

The dwarf nodded again, still looking into a bundle of arrows bigger than his head.

'Capital. See how we get on when we simply talk? And now I suggest that you arrest me.'

'You want me to arrest you?'

'Yes. And Lady Sybil. We place ourselves under your personal jurisdiction.'

'That's right,' said Sybil. 'I demand to be arrested.' > She drew herself up and out, righteous indignation radiating like a bonfire, causing the dwarfs to back away from what was clearly an unexploded bosom.

What does the last sentence mean please?

"It's not like there's any intention of never delivering it, sir."

I think the colours got away from me a bit on this one.

#disctober #disctober2026

Was thinking about Pyramids and it occurred to me that I can't recall the kingdom ever being mentioned again in the series. We get mentions of Fourecks and Agatean Empire, but not Djelibeybi. Is there ever a reference that I am forgetting?

Day 18. Flightless

The little dragon turned on Vimes a gaze that would be guaranteed to win it the award for Dragon the Judges would Most Like to Take Home and Use as A Portable Gas Lighter.

Total whittle Vimes thought. He wasn't sure of the precise
meaning of the word, but he could hazard a shrewd guess. It sounded like whatever it was you had left when you had extracted everything of any value whatsoever. Like the Watch, he thought.
Total whittles, every one of them. And just like him. It was the saga of his life.

Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

#inkoctober2026 #inktober #terrypratchett #discworld

After more than a year of reading every Discworld novel, I have finally finished the final one. Despite the fact that I've read through the series many times, it was actually only my second time reading The Shepherd's Crown.

And in these final parts, it was so great to see familiar names appear, like old friends waving at you. It makes the world feel alive and dynamic, knowing that characters like Hwel, Esk, Keli and others are still around and living their own lives. And it was a really nice reference to Dactylos from the very beginning of the journey, as well as our old friends Xeno and Ibid.

Well, time to move on, there's a whole list of new books to read. I feel sad to leave Discworld, but I know I'll come back to it, I always do.

Hi all, I am trying to complete a book bingo challenge. The prompt I am hoping to complete is Time Manipulation. Im thinking thief of time just by the name. But the end of the year is near and I also want to read a TPratchett book since its been a few months so im hoping to hit two birds with one stone.

But what i technically require is a book containing Time Manipulation and some form of romance (the book bingo is fantasy romances 2026 challenge). I'm pretty open to the barest hint of romance but do any of the discworld books stand out as fitting?

I read Night Watch last year so cant use that one

Any suitable ideas?