Discworld series

A parody of modern, harried society in which the venerable Monks of History control time, dishing it out to those who supposedly need it most--but when a young horologist is commissioned to create the world's first Perfect Clock, History Monk Lu-Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd must prevent the clock from starting, or time itself will stop.

Polly Perks, fearing that the national deity's decree against female ownership of a business is going to cause her to lose the family's inn, disguises herself as a man in order to join the military and find her brother who she fears has been killed in Borogravia's latest war.

A dying wizard is trying to pass on his powers to the son of an eighth son, who is just being born, when it's discovered that the son is actually a daughter. But the discovery comes too late--the powers have gone to her.

While Archchancellor Ridcully, at the request of benevolent tyrant Lord Ventinari, attempts to assemble a capable football team from the unathletic rabble at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University, handsome yet lazy Trev falls for dim yet pretty kitchen maid Juliet.

Combines comedy and action in the final adventure of Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men as the young witch faces an insidious new foe, one who whispers threats of violence and quietly unleashes mayhem.

A satirical comedy in which great hostility exists between trolls and dwarfs.

In the first story, a young witch-to-be named Tiffany Aching teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland. In the second story, Tiffany learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.

Susan's grandfather, the Grim Reaper himself, takes a sabbatical and leaves Susan in charge, but her underworld activities are soon threatened by her attraction to a musician who has found a magical guitar that can make all his dreams come true.

When Discworld's opera house is found to be haunted, a trio of witches is summoned to flush out the unwanted ghost but the results only seem to complicate matters.