Well duh , he ' s had two good games . <| sep |> Get Christina Aguilera on it , stat . <| sep |> Unless you can get a good sale today there is no reason not to wait till Monday . The card would most likely not ship till then anyway . <| sep |> Wait , in this imaginary construct of yours , Modi would have gone ahead , but God Rajan would have not printed notes thereby utterly collapsing the economy ? And you find my response hilarious ? Also in case you forgot to read your own link , the recommendations come from the GoI . <| sep |> Discworld It ' s a long series , but all of the books can be read as standalones , so you can jump in at any point . There are various charts for the different subseries and reading orders , but I still recommend reading them in publishing order . It takes Pratchett a few books to develop as an author , so the very first Discworld novels are a lot weaker than the later ones , but they ' re still enjoyable . And this way you get to see how Discworld develops from a mere parody of other fantasy worlds into one of the most detailed settings in fantasy . That said , there are several good points to start Color of MagicThe Light Fantastic The first two books and the only ones that can ' t really be separated from each other . They ' re very much a parody of traditional fantasy Conan , Fafhrd the Gray Mouser , Lovecraft etc . and roleplaying games . They lack the satire and social commentary of many of the later books in the series , but they still work as an introduction . Mort The first book featuring Death as a main character , still an early volume , but it already shows glimpses of what you can expect from the series as a whole . Guards ! Guards ! Starts the City Watch subseries , which are probably my favorite part of the Discworld books . Small Gods A standalone , with probably the best balance between being a relatively early book , but still showing of the best elements of the series . Going Postal The introduction of Moist van Lipwig , a con man tasked with rebuilding the postal system . Also the first in a subseries and in my opinion one of the best Discworld books . Wee Free Men It ' s fairly late in the series , but it starts the Tiffany Aching subseries which is aimed at younger readers and written to introduce newer readers to the series . If you want something more YA , this should be right up your alley . Alternatively , if you want to give Pratchett a try without jumping straight into Discworld , Good Omens cowritten with Neil Gaiman is fantastic and his YA novel Nation is great as well . Jasper Fforde Depends what you ' re in the mood for The Thursday Next books are his first series , following the adventures of a police detective in a alternate version of our world the Crimean war has been going on for about a century , there ' s vampires and werewolves , timetravels , cloned Dodos and Neanderthals , cheese is a controlled substance etc . , who , while hunting a dangerous master criminal , discovers that she can enter books and interact with the characters . It gets crazier from there . The Nursery Crime books are a spinoff from the Thursday Next series although you don ' t have to read those first , featuring the police department of a city populated by characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes . Shades of Grey is my favorite Fforde novel , it ' s dystopian scifi in a world where color has almost completely disappeared and people ' s status depends on which colors they can see . I ' ve been waiting for a sequel for years , but Fforde is prioritizing his other series so far . Lastly , the Last Dragonslayer series is aimed at younger readers , but still enjoyable for grownups . It ' s set in yet another version of England , fractured into many different kingdoms , slowly recovering from the Troll Wars and dealing with the effects of magic slowly seeping from the world . I enjoyed all of the series , and any of them are a good place to start . None of the series is finished though and Fforde ' s next book will be a new standalone , so if that bothers you I ' d recommend going with Nursery Crime , because right now it has the least cliffhangery ending . Or the first four Thursday Next books , because they form a fairly complete story arc and the fifth one is set several years later .