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I only started reading Discworld books about ten years ago, having somehow managed to miss them entirely as a young adult. In retrospect, that's a bit of a regret as I'm sure teenaged me would have loved them.

In particular I really like the 'classic' Corgi mass-market paperback editions with Josh Kirby cover art. From what I can find online these A-format (110x178mm) editions only ran until 1999's The Fifth Elephant, with The Truth onwards switching to the larger B-format size (and art by Paul Kidby, following Kirby's death in 2001). As well as being the copies I remember friends having back in my childhood, these are also the copies which most frequently seem to appear in local charity shops, which is where most of mine are from.

As you can see below, I'm about half-way through reading them in mostly chronological publication order: my one cheat so far has been pausing half-way through Feet of Clay to read Hogfather over Christmas and Boxing Day 2022.

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