– This is also the earliest appearance of the Nac Mac Feegles, an unexpected treat this early in the series. – A Witch novel featuring a big bad who feels like a genuine threat – everyone loves a vampire story, after all! – Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg display all of the promise here that they would come to fulfil later on as some of Pratchett’s best loved creations.ġ5. – Pratchett’s most finely crafted parody novel, perfectly sending up ‘Macbeth’ and, with the play within a play, sneaking in a bit of ‘Hamlet’ too. – Agnes Nitt is a lovely character, one I dearly wish could have featured more often than she did. – I love this because it is a ‘Phantom of the Opera’ parody and I am easily entertained, but it also features Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg out on the town in Ankh-Morpork, causing all the related chaos imaginable. – Tiffany’s brief visit to Ankh-Morpork, featuring bumping into a disgruntled Sam Vimes, is a wonderful scene that you feel is written directly for the fans. – A very dark Tiffany Aching novel, one which does not shy away from exploring the darkness that can sometimes be found in ordinary people, despite being for younger readers. – Om, the disgruntled god and Brutha, his only follower, are my favourite characters who make a one book appearance in the series. – One of the novels in which Sir Terry clearly has a statement to make in this case, the danger of investing yourself so deeply into a set of ideals that you are blind to any other way of thinking. – The first novel of the ‘species acceptance stories’, which means it’s fresh reading it here. – Sir Terry was really getting into the swing of the Watch novels by this, the third one all of the characters are distinctive and in possession of strong moral compasses that set them apart from others on the Disc. So each book received a rating out of ten and a position in the charts, and I hope the result is vaguely fair and gives you a good impression of the quality of the books as well as just how gosh darn enjoyable I found them.

I wanted to try and take those scores into account, knowing that my own opinions will always be biased. This isn’t the first time a ranking of the Discworld books has been done and I doubt it will be the last, but what makes my countdown different is that it’s partly personal to me, partly based on the scores each book received on a well-known book reading and rating website.

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