Guards! Guards! discussion

I was wanting to read all of the Discworld books with Captain Vimes and was wondering what is the chronological order of Vimes's books.

This diagram is very helpful for books on specific characters.

http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-o...

The diagram is incomplete, as there is another Watch Novel after Thud! - Snuff. And apart from the Watch Novels, Vimes also appears as a secondary character in The Truth, Monstrous Regiment and Raising Steam.

Steven wrote: "This diagram is very helpful for books on specific characters.

http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-o..."

Thanks I always worry I missed some Pratchetts books!

The wikipedia discworld page also has a good list of all the books and which characters are in each book.

Steven wrote: "The wikipedia discworld page also has a good list of all the books and which characters are in each book."
great I iwll read them all again when I retire!

Haha I started reading the whole series last September. I'm on Unseen Academicals at the moment. I started buying them as well. Since there's no definitive collection I decided to buy them second hand. I don't want them to look uniform either, so buying them used helps. And, in true Pratchett style I bought the last one, Raising Steam, first.

Also does it matter if you read them in chronological order? The vimes books.

It's good if you do. Vimes changes and grows a lot as a character. His status also changes considerably over the series. All of this makes more sense if you read the books in order.

Thanks guys. I have read Going Postal and really enjoyed it. And friends recommended to start the Vimes series as well. Super excited to read more of Pratchett's work.

Small Gods is my favourite

http://epliss.com/files/pratchett_e.jpg - this one has "Raising Steam".
The original review and smaller image is with "Raising Taxes" - I guess left uneditted: http://wickershamsconscience.wordpres...
Anyway, for me it was always a better way to just read them chronologically, disregarding the series a book is in.
Here is a similar (older) image, that names Pyramids and Small Gods as "Ancient civilisations", and Moving Pictures, The Truth, Going Postal, Making Money and (unfinished) Raising Taxes as "Industrial Revolution". Basiclly "Rasining Steam" would fit in "Industrial Revolution" pretty nicely. It lacks "Snuff", but that's pretty obvious a Vimes /Watch/ book.

http://zapfod.wordpress.com/photos/pr...

I'd love to see a similar diagram with "Ankh-Morpork" series, too (that would include various books from all the other series).
Something else I liked, but unfortunatelly it's in the bulgarian language wikipedia page only - the main motiv of a certain book - I keep reminding myself to transfere this into the English wikipedia page, cause it's pretty helpful. Here it is transleted in English via google translate :

https://translate.google.com/translat...

I love discworld, but especially the Ankh Morpork ones. And yes, I get confused, too.
ALthough my favourite is Small Gods The idea of Gods getting smaller if no-one believes in them. Brilliant.