Because every Discworld book is a standalone story. Some repeating characters such as Rinceworld, Death, Witches, etc. make up a series as shown in the chart, but It doesn't matter which order you read in. I read in the publication order, so I recommend you do the same.
Some people like wizards, some people like witches, some people like Death, some people cop procedurals, some people like random tales.
The alternate orders didn't come about for at least the first 20 books, when suddenly new fans had a lot to read. And Pratchett just happened to be such a good writer they almost all stand on their own.
The colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic are a direct continuation.
After that everything gets a bit hazy as pratchett went off to create a lot of mostly unrelated tales within the same world, sometimes there is crossover.
You can't go wrong with publication order since most of his books are worth reading except the later ones like monstrous regiment which I found was just an absolute slog and never had much relevance to any other book
Mort is the first really good one, I think. IIRC, it was fourth after Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, and TP said himself it was the first one with a really good overall plot rather just a bunch of incidents.
Guards! Guards! is the first of the City Watch; you want to read those in order, ideally.
If you're going to read about the witches then I think Wyrd Sisters is the best place to start. (It helps if you know Macbeth as it's sort of a big parody of it.) As mentioned above, Equal Rites was before he was quite into his stride.
Small Gods might be the best stand-alone.
He has so much punning and wordplay generally it's hard to imagine them in translation. But who knows? Maybe they're BETTER in Slovenian.
Assuming you plan to read the whole thing, then definitely read it in publication order. The little breaks between characters make them feel like old friends when you revisit them and the gradual buildup of world building is a nice journey to see.
I'm reading them in publication order. It's nice to switch between the different characters and settings and the books are super easy to read.
(I'm also reading them in translation, some puns are explained, some are not, but whatever). Maybe on my second reading in 10 years I'll do it in English.
there weren't really that many puns from what i remember of it
if it still exists check out the L-space annotated pratchett files.
They went over moth of the books and explained a lot of the more obscure pop culture references.
The Light Fantastic (Hungarian translation)
But I don't know Hungarian
Just read it in the publication order
Why do all these charts go out of order though? Is there a good reason for it?
Because every Discworld book is a standalone story. Some repeating characters such as Rinceworld, Death, Witches, etc. make up a series as shown in the chart, but It doesn't matter which order you read in. I read in the publication order, so I recommend you do the same.
Oops, Rincewind*
Some people like wizards, some people like witches, some people like Death, some people cop procedurals, some people like random tales.
The alternate orders didn't come about for at least the first 20 books, when suddenly new fans had a lot to read. And Pratchett just happened to be such a good writer they almost all stand on their own.
The colour of Magic and the Light Fantastic are a direct continuation.
After that everything gets a bit hazy as pratchett went off to create a lot of mostly unrelated tales within the same world, sometimes there is crossover.
You can't go wrong with publication order since most of his books are worth reading except the later ones like monstrous regiment which I found was just an absolute slog and never had much relevance to any other book
*But ironically Nightwatch which came out only a year before is I think one of the best and most engaging books he had ever written.
Mort is the first really good one, I think. IIRC, it was fourth after Colour of Magic, Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, and TP said himself it was the first one with a really good overall plot rather just a bunch of incidents.
Guards! Guards! is the first of the City Watch; you want to read those in order, ideally.
If you're going to read about the witches then I think Wyrd Sisters is the best place to start. (It helps if you know Macbeth as it's sort of a big parody of it.) As mentioned above, Equal Rites was before he was quite into his stride.
Small Gods might be the best stand-alone.
He has so much punning and wordplay generally it's hard to imagine them in translation. But who knows? Maybe they're BETTER in Slovenian.
Actually the one I read is apparently the only good Slovenian translation, I'm gonna get the others in English
Equal rights was a confusing one but you'll need it to read sorcery and the other wizard series
Assuming you plan to read the whole thing, then definitely read it in publication order. The little breaks between characters make them feel like old friends when you revisit them and the gradual buildup of world building is a nice journey to see.
I'm reading them in publication order. It's nice to switch between the different characters and settings and the books are super easy to read.
(I'm also reading them in translation, some puns are explained, some are not, but whatever). Maybe on my second reading in 10 years I'll do it in English.
>OP has regressed
there weren't really that many puns from what i remember of it
if it still exists check out the L-space annotated pratchett files.
They went over moth of the books and explained a lot of the more obscure pop culture references.
Seems it still very much is a thing
https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html
Witches > Death > Ancient Civilizations > Industrial Revolution > Watch > Rincewind > Science > Tiffany
>Ancient Civilizations
which is that meant to be? small gods?
>The turtle moves
Why would anyone consume such a huge amount of goyslop? Genuinely curious
It's comfy, chuddie.
It surely must get boring after the 20th book in the series
I don't know, we'll see.
The Holy Bible has 66 books in it.
that's the freemasonified version
>goyslop
where did this psyop start?
it's just consoomerism
How was he so prolific; why can't IQfy compete?
The books are rather short.