The Colour of Magic
The launch of the bestselling and best-loved comic fantasy series ever written — rougher than what followed, and historically indispensable: every Discworld reread starts somewhere, and the Luggage debuts here.
Series Guide
Discworld
Forty-one novels on a flat world carried by four elephants on a giant turtle: Pratchett's comic mirror in which wizards, witches, coppers and DEATH reflect everything that matters about the round one.
In the Guide
Mort
Widely cited as the point Discworld became Discworld — the first book carried by character and theme rather than parody — and the foundation of the Death sequence, the series' most beloved strand.
Small Gods
Routinely voted the best standalone Discworld novel and taught in theology and philosophy courses with a straight face; the series' clearest demonstration that comic fantasy can carry the heaviest cargo.
Night Watch
Generally acclaimed the finest Discworld novel and one of the great fantasy novels of its decade in any register: the annual 'wearing the lilac' tributes among readers each 25th of May are their own evidence.