Terry pratchett-like books

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Hello, I’ve read discworld so many times. Are there any other authors who do the engaging funny characters in slightly fantasy world thing? Or witches, highwaymen, time travel etc.
I found the st marys stories thanks to mn, hoping for another top tip!

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman. Of course he co-wrote Good Omens with TP, so their styles worked really well together.

The Htichhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Be sure to read them in order.

The Stranger Times books maybe?

Not laugh out loud like Pratchett but daek humour with great characters and dialogue, and good plots too.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/332062-stranger-times

Ooh thank you for ‘stranger times’ I love it! Just exactly right - I love that they don’t hammer home the joke, but sort if leave gaps for you to pick up. Thank you!
dilbertian thank you too - I’ve done all gaiman, and I’ve read the hitchikers 8, 000,000 times. It was my go to as an awkward teen. It’s genius.

in return, I offer you this, if you haven’t read it- bit bonkers too.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790906-doughnut

Tom Holt's books are a similar level of social satire but a bit more surreal.

Do pick up Terry Pratchetts non discworld novels as well :)

You could try Jasper Ffordes books
Jodi Taylor's The Chronicles of St Mary's
Robert Asprin's Myth or Phule series

Thank you! Have read every pratchett going, they are all fab.
highly recommend Dodger. Genius.
i LOVE st marys. So good.
and will look up the others, thank you!

Robert Rankin - the Brentford Trilogy might be worth a look.
Any book called 'The Sprouts of Wrath' has to be worth reading.

I second Neil Gaiman, I love Neverwhere and his other books. I also really like Ben Aaronovitch's River's of London series. They are a mix of crime, fantasy and comedy. Set in modern day London, with the main character being part of the Met Police's secret magic branch.

So glad you enjoy them! If you like Stranger Times do try Ciamh McDonnell's other books as well. Not fantasy but dark and abusurd humour.

There's two series, The Dublin Trilogy and McGary Stateside. The McGary ones are more Pratchetesque but they spin out of the Dublin Trilogy so you really need to read those first and they are not quite the same. I really enjoyed the Dublin books and they do have the same humour but are darker and more violent than Stranger Times - or rather, they are not darker and more violent, but somehow the violence seems darker when perpetrated by ordinary humans rather than fantasy-tinged characters. But if you are ok with that, I thoroughly recommend both series.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/197185-dublin-trilogy

Massive Pratchett fan here. I've just read a funny book called Legends & Lattes. It's apparently part of a growing fantasy sub genre called 'cosy fantasy' . It's about a female orc who decides she's done with fighting and opens a café selling this new beverage called 'coffee'! Fun adventures ensue. I was a bit sceptical but it was lots of fun and had a definite whiff of Pratchett!

Just went on Amazon to have a look at the Robert Rankin books as I love Terry Pratchett so anything in a similar vein would be right up my street and the first 6 books in the Brentford Trilogy are on kindle unlimited at the moment. Thought I'd flag that up for anyone here who wants to try them too. Just downloaded the first one. I know what I'll be reading for the next couple of weeks! Thank you for the recommendation

Thank you for the recommendation
Hope you like them 😁.

Robin Hobb Fitz and the Fool series. A bit different but very well written. Also Katherine Kerr Deverry series.

So lovely to see all the books i love mentioned in one place.

my suggestions aren’t quite on-track as the ones alrwady mentioned above, but are good fantasy with flashes of real humour -

Felix Castor series by Mike Carey
the first couple of The Laundry Files by Charles Stross (but stop after the first couple because they start to get depressing)
Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust - these are brilliant, but for some reason not read much outside America. Very fantasy, and best read in published sequence which is strongly non-chronological but hangs together well.

If we are doing a bit more standard Urban Fantasy, I offer the Iron Druid series. A bit cheesey at first but really hits its stride after a while.

And Dresden files of course.

Neither are laugh out loud but both have their tongue a little in their cheek, mixed with great worldbuilding, likeable characters and good plots.

There's another series, Ink and Sigil, by the same author as Iron Druid which is shaping up pretty well.

I love Gareth Pengally books, loads of laugh out loud moments

Oh gosh you wonderful people! So much to get stuck into.
ive read a few - aaranivitch is great - I love they way it’s fantasy mixed with down to earthiness.
and the Dresden files! All jolly good stuff. I’ll definitely be looking up the others.
i need to come to bed early and read - cozy fantasy sounds fun. I’ve just read some chic lit books which seem to involve finding a run down coffee shop in a sea siege town and miraculously it gets super popular and indubitably involves a handsome but misunderstood chap. Yawn, but swap it up for an orc, well!
I might write a cozy book of my own- bored mum reading fantasy pratchett style books finds secret passage behind the washing machine and goes off on an adventure involving hard cheese, lots of singing, possibly horses and a magic sword. 😀

Thank you so much everyone!
loved ‘stranger times’ now I need to track down the sequel. It’s deft well written, based in reality,great characters, very funny. A sort of funny wierd slow horses! Or the main guy is anyway.
Tracked down Robert aspirin, and they’re good too! Funny and well done.

reminded me a teeny bit of the bartimeaus trilogy ( demon/
type thingy) and anything else by Jonathan stroud. Especially the ghost hunter ones.