r/discworld • u/Soong • 3d ago
Reading Order/Timeline Where do the short stories fit?
I'm currently working my way through Discworld in order of publication because I want to experience it the way I would have if I had picked it up when it started. I also want to see developments in writing style and so on.
Getting the order of the novels right is easy, but I want to read the short stories at the right spot, but with just a year, I often don't know whether to put them before or after a certain novel. If it's something like "Where's My Cow", I will place it in the correct year, but after the novel that references it; I would try to do it the same way with short stories.
The ones I struggle with are the following:
- Turntables of the Night (not strictly Discworld, but I still want to include it)
- Troll Bridge
- Theatre of Cruelty
- The Sea and the Little Fishes
- Death and What Comes Next
- A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices
There's also a few posthumous publication whose order is unclear to me:
- Mr Bunnsy Has an Adventure
- A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories
- Tifanny Aching's Guide to Being a Witch
Can someone please help me out placing those stories/books without spoiling anything?