[Barry the Sprout]

The Discworld books are a bit odd, you don't have to read them in order but it helps for most of them. To date, I think, the orders are:

The Witches Books: Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, and Carpe Jugulum.

The Gaurds Books: Guards! Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, and Jingo.

The Rincewind Books: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Sourcery, Eric, Interesting Times, and The Last Continent.

The Death Books: Mort, Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather, and Thief of Time.

The Wizard Books: (the Rincewind ones and sometimes pre-requisites for these as well, but not essential) Moving Pictures, Reaper Man, Soul Music, Hogfather, ajnd The Last Continent (yes, I know these are in other lists as well... its hard to explain, especially Reaper Man)

Misc: Pyramids, Small Gods, and The Truth.

I must have missed some out here, anyone else with more encylopeadic knowledge willing to help...

EDIT - BTW, this is not the order the books were written in. All of the books are written about the one world, but mostly they focus on one of several reccurring groups of characters, like the Witches or the Wizards. So you don't have to read them in the sequence they were written - just the sequence according to the central characters. Even then, its hardly essential.

[ 10-07-2002, 06:49 AM: Message edited by: Barry the Sprout ]