The 10 Best Discworld Books, According to Goodreads - The Fantasy Review

The 10 Best Discworld Books, According to Goodreads

Here is a list of The 10 Best Discworld Books, According to Goodreads.

Night Watch

Best Discworld Books

Goodreads rating: 4.49

From the blurb:

For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution.

Men at Arms

Best Discworld Books

Goodreads rating: 4.40

From the blurb:

The City Watch needs MEN! But what it’s got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman… most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

Going Postal

Best Discworld Books

Goodreads rating: 4.40

From the blurb:

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put the ailing postal service of Ankh-Morpork – the Discworld’s city-state – back on its feet.

It’s a tough decision.

The Truth

Best Discworld Books

Goodreads rating: 4.40

From the blurb:

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’s first newspaper.

Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’s life – people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes.

The Shepherd’s Crown

Goodreads rating: 4.38

From the blurb:

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.

I Shall Wear Midnight

Goodreads rating: 4.35

From the blurb:

As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone – or something – is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches.

Thud!

Goodreads rating: 4.34

From the blurb:

In the city of Ankh-Morpork, tension is rising between dwarf and troll communities.

A dwarven fanatic has been stoking the flames of an old hatred born of the Battle of Koom Valley -an ancient war between the races that neither side has quite got over.

Guards! Guards!

Goodreads rating: 4.33

From the blurb:

The city of Ankh-Morpork is in turmoil, its citizens revolting. Again.

A shadowy secret brotherhood has summoned a dragon to spread terror throughout the city, intent on overthrowing the Patrician and ruling in his place. Too bad the dragon has ideas of its own …

Small Gods

Goodreads rating: 4.31

From the blurb:

Religion is a competitive business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion and their own gods, of every shape and size – all fighting for faith, followers, and a place at the top.

Feet of Clay

Best Discworld Books

Goodreads rating: 4.31

From the blurb:

Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is used to trouble. There’s always trouble in Ankh-Morpork.

But this is new: people are being brutally murdered and there’s no evidence of anything alive having been at the crime scene. At the same time, the most powerful man in the city has been poisoned and is clinging on to life by a thread.

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