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Now try this for Terry Prachett books lol
Came in here to talk about Discworld. I generally agree with OP but for Discworld I usually recommend one of the standalones first because it’s a good way to get a feel for his writing and to see if you like it, whereas Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic are quite different from the other ones since he hadn’t really gotten into stride yet. Also depending on the person I usually recommend one I think they’ll like because it’s about something I know they enjoy. But I would never try to prescribe a whole reading order, that’s insane
I always recommend Guards! Guards! first because it introduces characters that reoccur throughout most of the other books and is itself the start the Vimes mini-series within the series.
If you don't love Pratchett at his "parodying Anne McCaffrey for 37 pages," you don't deserve him at his "doing extremely problematic fantasy racism with a troll named goddamned fucking Coalface whose 'characterization' sounds like a straight-up 4chan meme"
Paragraph 4, and CW should be obvious:
https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Constable_Coalface
The City Watch series is a land of contrasts
Wow, how did I not get this?
Because we're so accustomed to racist cop dramas that it didn't strike anyone as out-of-place in a fantasy comedy series?
I'd avoid basing the reading order on the story arcs for most part, it's more fun to randomly run into known characters again. Other than that, it's difficult to mess up. I'd consider the Nomes as a start too. For the Nomes I'd read the books in order and consecutive.
Release order is incredibly rewarding because you see the little in-jokes and back-references as they're cropping up in canon.