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The Discworld is a weird series in that regard... It doesn't really make sense for a new person to read it in release order... unless you really want to explore how Terry Pratchett evolved as an author over his career. Even Terry Pratchett himself doesn't recommend that people start with The Colour of Magic...

The odd thing is that the "Discworld series" is more of a "universe" than a series, and it then consists of several sub-series. In the chart in my previous comment, you can better see the actual series.

"Guards! Guards!" is the first book in the "Watch" series, a series about the city watch of Ankh-Morpork. The actual sequel would be "Men at Arms", and then "Feet of Clay" and so on. These books continue following the Watch, and Vimes, and still has a bit of the "detective novel" vibe.

I myself started reading from "Colour of Magic" (The first of the "Rincewind" series), and I liked it quite a lot, but I'm fairly certain that the reason I found it funny and interesting was due to me playing a lot of pen-and-paper role playing games as a wizard, and having a lot more experience with all of the tropes and themes of old-school fantasy. If I didn't have that background, I'm fairly certain I would have bounced-off, hard...

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If I were you, I would really continue with the Watch series, it has some great characters and storylines, and it will make you fall in love with the Discworld universe.

Once you have either read all the watch books, or feel like you need something different, then I would probably try out the Witches series. (or possibly the "Death" series, eventhough the first book "Mort" is a bit rough.

And only then would I circle back and take on the Rincewind series. The Rincewind series starts out rather rough, compared to most of the other books (but they were also the first), and there's a number of details and characters that are not consistent with the rest of the books as Terry Pratchett was still figuring things out at that point, and while the Rincewind series becomes very very enjoyable as it develops, I will say that the first two books are a bit harder to get into than the rest of the Discworld series.

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