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I'm just commenting "Discworld" here because I'm only allowed to upvote @PokerPirate once.
To make my comment less redundant, here's the Discworld Reading Order Guide. IMHO although the best starting points depend on your taste, you can't really go wrong with "Guards! Guards!" or "Mort".
The reading order is worthwhile to avoid missing backstory (or to let you know what backstory you can miss - "The Color of Magic" wasn't nearly as good as his later books), but the books get even better as you go on. I could name stories by many authors that set me on edge from the suspense, or teary-eyed from the tragedy, or laughing from the comedy, but I'm having trouble thinking of anything other than Pratchett's "Thud!" that managed to do all three at once, and with a single line that would make no sense whatsoever out of context.
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