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Top 10 The Best of Discworld! : Small Gods, Hogfather, Witches Abroad, Feet of Clay, The Wee Free Men, Thief of Time, The Truth, The Fifth Elephant, Making Money, Lords and Ladies

Small Gods
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552152978
Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt....
Hogfather
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552154288
Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn't that her parents didn't believe in such things. They didn't need to believe in them. They know they existed. They just wished they didn't.

There...
Witches Abroad
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061020613
Be careful what you wish for...

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata....
Feet of Clay
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552153257
'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew his own sword; it made an almost silken sound - 'and of course you can't blame a sword if someone thrust it at you, sir.'

For members of the City Watch, life consists of troubling times, linked together...
The Wee Free Men
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0060012382
"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back."

"Why?" said Tiffany.

"There's no one to stop them."

There was silence for a moment.

Then Tiffany said, "There's me."

Armed only with a frying pan and her common...
Thief of Time
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061031321
Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.
And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater -- how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.
But the construction...
The Truth
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0413771164

I think I've only read this Pratchett novel once before, and on the re-read, I enjoyed it more than I expected to.

Don't get me wrong. The worst Terry Pratchett novel is still wonderfully enjoyable. And while I don't think this one is *the* best, it's *among* the best. Definitely on his A list....
The Fifth Elephant
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552154229
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That its finest practitioners are subtle, sophisticated individuals for whom nuance and subtext are meat and drink. And that mastering it is a lifetime's work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It's not something you can just pick up on the...
Making Money
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061161640
It's an offer you can't refuse.

Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door?

It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.

The Chief Cashier is almost certainly...
Lords and Ladies
AuthorTerry Pratchett
A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewseyy Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in the morning...Everything ought to be going like a dream. But the Lancre All-Comers Morris Team have...
Carpe Jugulum
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061051586
In a fit of enlightenment democracy and ebullient goodwill, King Verence invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But once ensconced within the castle, these wine-drinking, garlic-eating, sun-loving modern vampires have no intention of leaving....
Wintersmith
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0060890312
Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance — the crossover from summer to winter — she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And draws the attention of...
Jingo
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552154164
'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.'

Throughout history, there's always been a perfectly good reason to start...
Soul Music
AuthorTerry Pratchett
Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off.
Yes. There's a Death in the family.

It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe – especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone...
Pyramids
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061020656
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid...
Maskerade
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0575058080
THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT...

The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork...a huge, rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely-familiar eveil mastermind in a hideously-deformed evening dress...

At least,...
Sourcery
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061020672
When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.

But that's not all....

Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that...
The Last Continent
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552154180
'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'

There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Especially when...
Interesting Times: The Play
AuthorStephen Briggs
ISBN0413772195
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels
The Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some well-intentioned rebels overthrow the Emperor.

He's assisted by toy-rabbit-wielding...
Raising Steam
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0857522272
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist...
Men at Arms: The Play
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552144320
In this latest #1 international bestseller, the hilarious and twisted author of Soul Music delivers readers once again into Discworld. Since the captain of the City Watch has left the force to become a gentleman, Discworld is in search of a few good cops. And being a cop in this unpredictable universe...
The Discworld Almanak: The Year of the Prawn
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0385606834
In this latest accessory to the Discworld phenomenon, Terry Pratchett joins forces with Bernard Pearson to produce the definitive Almanak to the Common Year of the Prawn, for the city of Ankh-Morpork and Surrounding Areas & Benefices. Here you will find a Compendium to all Knowledge, and a sure...
Small Gods: A Discworld Graphic Novel
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0857522965
'Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.'

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: 'Hey, you!' This is the Discworld, after all, and religion is a controversial business. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods, of every shape and size, and all...
The Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0575071052
RULES OF THE UBERWALD LEAGUE OF TEMPERANCE ANKH-MORPORK:

MISSION OBJECT
To further the cause of temperance and of total abstinence from drinking human blood (The Old Practice), to provide recreation and means of social intercourse for its members and to encourage by meetings, lectures,...
The Discworld Graphic Novels: The Colour of Magic & The Light Fantastic
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0061685968
“Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz.”
—A.S. Byatt

 

The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic—the first two volumes of Terry Pratchett’s phenomenally successful, New York Times bestselling Discworld series—are now available in this special...
A Tourist Guide to Lancre
AuthorTerry Pratchett
ISBN0552146080
Not only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's more, er, picturesque kingdoms.

Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there. Lancre could hardly be somwhere ordinary, could it?

Magic glues...
Theatre of Cruelty
AuthorTerry Pratchett
Punch and Judy on the Discworld.

This is a very short and very early Discworld story, first published in 1993 and you can get this for free online. Carrot is still a Constable.

Fred Colon and Nobby Nobbs have found a murder victim and after ruling out suicide (barely) they engage in some...
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