# The best Discworld novels

Terry Pratchett's Discworld books that fans and critics rate highest, led by the City Watch masterpiece Night Watch.

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- Nov 25, 2024 · Sean
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## Top 18

1. **Night Watch** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2002. Vimes is thrown back in time and has to train his younger self.
2. **Thud!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2005. A dwarf murder that could start a war.
3. **Small Gods** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1992. A god reduced to a tortoise; the classic entry point.
4. **Going Postal** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2004. Con man Moist von Lipwig runs the post office.
5. **The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2001. Discworld for younger readers, with a Carnegie Medal.
6. **Lords and Ladies** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1992. The witches against the elves.
7. **Wyrd Sisters** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1988. Three witches and a Macbeth parody.
8. **Guards! Guards!** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1989. The City Watch and a dragon in Ankh-Morpork.
9. **Hogfather** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1996. Death fills in for the Disc's Father Christmas.
10. **Men at Arms** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1993. The Watch takes in new recruits of every species.
11. **Monstrous Regiment** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2003. A young woman disguises herself as a man to join the army.
12. **Reaper Man** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1991. Death is forced to retire and works on a farm.
13. **Mort** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1987. Death takes on an apprentice.
14. **The Wee Free Men** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2003. Tiffany Aching and the tiny blue Nac Mac Feegle.
15. **Feet of Clay** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1996. Golems and a plot against the Patrician.
16. **Witches Abroad** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1991. The witches travel and mess with fairy tales.
17. **The Colour of Magic** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1983. Where it all began, with Rincewind.
18. **The Truth** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2000. Ankh-Morpork gets its first newspaper.

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