18 books like Maskerade

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Lords and Ladies Terry Pratchett · 1992 · ★ 4.5 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The fairies are back - but this time they don't just want your teeth... Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. It's Midsummer Night. No times for dreaming... With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place. Shares: Granny weatherwax, Discworld, Witches, English literature

Witches Abroad Terry Pratchett · 1991 · ★ 4.2 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Be careful what you wish for...Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unforunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for… Shares: Granny weatherwax, Discworld, Witches, Fantasy

Carpe Jugulum Terry Pratchett · 1998 · ★ 4.2 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Carpe Jugulum (Latin for "seize the throat", cf. Carpe diem) is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty-third in the Discworld series. It was first published in 1998. In Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett pastiches the traditions of vampire literature, playing with the mythic archetypes and featuring a tongue-in-cheek reversal of 'vampyre' subculture with young vampires who wear bright… Shares: Granny weatherwax, Discworld, Witches, English literature

Reaper Man Terry Pratchett · 1991 · ★ 4.3 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate They say there are only two things you can count on ...But that was before DEATH started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now DEATH is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use.But like… Shares: Discworld, English literature, Fantasy

Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett · 1988 · ★ 4.2 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Maigrat have fairy godmother-dom thrust upon them. Shares: Granny weatherwax, Discworld, Witches, Fantasy

Small Gods Terry Pratchett · 1992 · ★ 4.3 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please... Shares: Discworld, English literature, Fantasy

Equal Rites Terry Pratchett · 1987 · ★ 4.1 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels, consistent number one bestsellers in England, have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody along with Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a… Shares: Granny weatherwax, Discworld, Fantasy

Night Watch Terry Pratchett · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 421p · ≈ 14h · Moderate One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved… Shares: Discworld, English literature

Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City K. J. Parker · 2019 · ★ 4.2 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate K. J. Parker's new novel is the remarkable tale of the siege of a walled city, and the even more remarkable man who had to defend it.A siege is approaching, and the city has little time to prepare. The people have no food and no weapons, and the enemy has sworn to slaughter them all.To save the city will take a miracle, but what it has is Orhan. A colonel of engineers, Orhan has far more… Shares: English literature, Fantasy

Pyramids Terry Pratchett · 1989 · ★ 3.9 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing… Shares: Discworld, Fantasy

Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett · 1989 · ★ 4.3 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Here there be dragons ... and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it… Shares: Discworld, English literature, Fantasy

The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate From the back cover: In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.... Shares: Discworld, English literature, Fantasy

Soul Music Terry Pratchett · 1994 · ★ 4.1 · 389p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Death goes walk-about and tries everything, including joining the French Foreign Legion, to forget a tragic carriage accident at dead man's curve. His independent-minded teen granddaughter has to surreptitiously take over the reaping biz. Three guys invent music with rocks in it or did the magick in this music invent them? Is time changing or - déjà vu all over again- is it rushing to a new… Shares: Discworld, English literature, Fantasy

Interesting Times Terry Pratchett · 1994 · ★ 4.2 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "May you live in interesting times" is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld -- especially on the distinctly unmagical sorcerer Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life. But when a request for a "Great Wizzard" arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's he who's sent as emissary. Chaos threatens to… Shares: Discworld, English literature, Fantasy

Sourcery Terry Pratchett · 1988 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.But that's not all...Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son -- a wizard squared… Shares: Discworld, English literature, Fantasy

Feet of Clay Terry Pratchett · 1996 · ★ 4.3 · 373p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Nineteenth in the Discworld universe and third entry of the City Watch series, this novel follows Captain Carrot, Commander Vimes, and the rest of the Night Watch as they attempt to unravel the mystery of who poisoned Lord Vetinari the Patrician. Shares: Discworld, Witches, Fantasy

Making Money Terry Pratchett · 2007 · ★ 4.3 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is running like . . . well, not at all like a government office. The mail is delivered promptly; meetings start and end on time; five out of six letters relegated to the Blind Letter Office ultimately wend their way to the correct addresses. Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig, former arch-swindler and confidence man, has exceeded all expectations—including his own.… Shares: Discworld, English literature

Mort Terry Pratchett · 1987 · ★ 4.2 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker. Shares: Discworld, Fantasy

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