Discworld

I bow to your superior emoticon use :o

Lol I never noticed that

Because someone really dislikes colour blind people :P

It also seems the color for “young adult novel” isn’t used at all.

comedy

I’m considering that for my next read through.

I just finished The Last Continent next up is Carpe Jugulum

There's a lot of opinions on this. I found Small Gods to be a good jumping in place because it's a stand alone book and late enough that he had found the tone he wanted for the series. But a lot of other people recommend picking a subseries and starting with the first book there. The Vimes books are very popular so a lot of people recommend Guards, Guards as a starting point.

The reason a lot of people don't recommend publishing order is that the first two books are written in a very different style to the later ones. They're pretty straight parodies of heroic fantasy. But Pratchett becomes so much more later.

You can do whatever I think, either read them by series (rincewind, witches, city guard, etc.) or by publishing order, starting with the colour of magic.

Witches look self-contained. For the rest, pick a group and read up to before the series crossover, then proceed to the next series's starting book

Mort

That was the first one I read, and it got me hooked. Very good stand alone book with minimal references to the rest of the series.

my personal favorite after decades of dedicated fandom, and self-contained enough that it's one I recommend everyone start with.

Meh, read 'em in order. I was all but done with the series when I saw posts like this.

You can read them any which way you like. I started with Hogfather because it sounded wild. If you go in order you catch more of the jokes and characters from the previous books.

The opposite. There's no need to read all of them. Each is self contained. So this amount just means you have a lot more to consume of you liked them

Not only is each self-contained, but I have found that each "sub-series"- if I can call them that- has a different vibe from the other, and are oftentimes entirely unrelated. So it's not like you're missing out on part of the story you were reading in Mort and Reaper Man by not reading a Rincewind book. Not many people actually read every book anyway.

Should be the opposite, there's a lot of options for where to start.

I think pterry was personally fond of Rincewind as a character, which may have influenced this recommendation.

Basically, while all of the novels take place in the discworld, different books in the series focus on different groups of characters, making it so that there are different subseries within the series. A lot of people choose to read the subseries in order instead of going through the books in publication order. This is also because the first two books, while not bad, have a very different tone from the later books. They're kind of straight parodies of heroic fantasy rather than being more focused on the unique setting and characters within the discworld.

So most people would recommend starting with one of the major subseries. The city watch books start with Guards Guards (this is probably the most popular subseries). The witches start with Equal Rites. Death starts with Mort. And Rincewind starts with The Color of Magic. Or you could pick one of the stand alone books to get a taste of Pratchett's style without continuity. Small Gods is probably the best choice for this IMO.

I asked Pratchett's ghost. He said it didn't matter.

Small Gods was mine. If I'd started with the Rincwind books I might never have finished any of them.

Mine was "Eric"

Young Adult.

The Tiffany Aching books are a young adult subseries that spins off from the witches series. Very much worth reading even if you're not huge on YA stuff, especially since they essentially finish off the witches storyline.