Terry Pratchett audiobooks in order
Everything Terry Pratchett has on this site: 1 series, 42 books published 1983–2015.
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Where to start
Publication order is listed below, but it is not the usual recommendation. Most listeners start with a sub-series instead — Guards! Guards! for the City Watch, Wyrd Sisters for the Witches, Mort for Death, or Going Postal for Moist von Lipwig. The first two books are the weakest and put a lot of people off entirely. One warning about recordings: almost every Discworld recommendation you will read online names Nigel Planer or Stephen Briggs, who narrated the series for decades. Those readings are no longer sold on Audible UK — the current set is the re-recording released from December 2021, with one lead actor for each sub-series and a different lead on each standalone. Do not go hunting for the old ones. One exception: A Blink of the Screen, a collection of Pratchett's short fiction that Audible files under Discworld, is still sold in its 2012 recording by Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs. It is listed at its publication point and is optional.
Series in order
Discworld in order42 books · One lead actor per sub-series in the current recordings — Jon Culshaw for the City Watch, Indira Varma for the Witches and Tiffany Aching, Colin Morgan for Rincewind and the wizards, Sian Clifford for Death, Richard Coyle for Moist von Lipwig — and a different lead on each standalone, with Bill Nighy on the footnotes and, on most of the books, Peter Serafinowicz as Death; A Blink of the Screen is read by Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs
Every book, in order
All 42 books across 1 series. Each links to its Audible listing.
- 1
The Colour of Magic (1983) - 2
The Light Fantastic (1986) - 3
Equal Rites (1987) - 4
Mort (1987) - 5
Sourcery (1988) - 6
Wyrd Sisters (1988) - 7
Pyramids (1989) - 8
Guards! Guards! (1989) - 9
Eric (1990) - 10
Moving Pictures (1990) - 11
Reaper Man (1991) - 12
Witches Abroad (1991) - 13
Small Gods (1992) - 14
Lords and Ladies (1992) - 15
Men at Arms (1993) - 16
Soul Music (1994) - 17
Interesting Times (1994) - 18
Maskerade (1995) - 19
Feet of Clay (1996) - 20
Hogfather (1996) - 21
Jingo (1997) - 22The Last Continent (1998)
- 23
Carpe Jugulum (1998) - 24
The Fifth Elephant (1999) - 25
The Truth (2000) - 26
Thief of Time (2001) - 27The Last Hero (2001)
- 28
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001) - 29
Night Watch (2002) - 30
The Wee Free Men (2003) - 31
Monstrous Regiment (2003) - 32
A Hat Full of Sky (2004) - 33
Going Postal (2004) - 34
Thud! (2005) - 35
Wintersmith (2006) - 36
Making Money (2007) - 37
Unseen Academicals (2009) - 38
I Shall Wear Midnight (2010) - 39
Snuff (2011) - 40
A Blink of the Screen (short stories) (2012) - 41
Raising Steam (2013) - 42
The Shepherd's Crown (2015)
Which recording should you buy?
Books by Terry Pratchett sold as more than one recording — where an abridgement or a dramatisation sits beside the full text under a near-identical listing:
Going Postal2 recordings compared
Small Gods2 recordings compared
Thief of Time2 recordings compared
Unseen Academicals3 recordings compared
Mort2 recordings compared
Guards! Guards!2 recordings compared
The Colour of Magic2 recordings compared
The Light Fantastic2 recordings compared
Equal Rites2 recordings compared
Sourcery2 recordings compared
Wyrd Sisters2 recordings compared
Pyramids2 recordings compared
Eric2 recordings compared
Reaper Man2 recordings compared
Witches Abroad2 recordings compared
Lords and Ladies2 recordings compared
Men at Arms2 recordings compared
Soul Music2 recordings compared
Interesting Times2 recordings compared
Maskerade2 recordings compared
Feet of Clay2 recordings compared
Hogfather2 recordings compared
Jingo2 recordings compared- The Last Continent2 recordings compared
Carpe Jugulum2 recordings compared
The Fifth Elephant2 recordings compared
The Truth2 recordings compared
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents2 recordings compared
Night Watch2 recordings compared
The Wee Free Men2 recordings compared
Monstrous Regiment2 recordings compared
A Hat Full of Sky2 recordings compared
Thud!2 recordings compared
Wintersmith2 recordings compared
Making Money2 recordings compared
I Shall Wear Midnight2 recordings compared
Snuff2 recordings compared
Raising Steam2 recordings compared
The Shepherd's Crown2 recordings compared
Who reads Terry Pratchett
- Andy SerkisThe Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
- Indira VarmaThe Cazalet Chronicles, Wyrd Sisters
- Sian CliffordMort, Reaper Man
- Jon CulshawGuards! Guards!, Feet of Clay
- Colin MorganThe Colour of Magic, Interesting Times
- Bill NighyDiscworld (current recordings), Harry Potter (full-cast editions)
- Peter SerafinowiczDiscworld (current recordings, as Death), Men at Arms
- Richard CoyleGoing Postal, Making Money
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Portraits — Agatha Christie: Photo: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo · CC0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Andrzej Sapkowski: Photo: Niccolò Caranti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Ann Cleeves: Photo: TimDuncan · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Anthony Trollope: Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; Arthur Conan Doyle: Photo: Walter Benington · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.