The titles are:
"Reaper Man", "Small Gods", "Wyrd Sisters", "Moving Pictures"
Went to an adorable book shop and found these guys. I haven't read Pratchett yet but I feel it'll be right up my alley
I'm pretty sure I see "Small Gods" and "Wyrd Sisters" recommended a lot and I know you can't really go wrong, but of these which would you recommend the most? Since this is what I have I'll read them all eventually
Regardless I'm excited to have gotten physical copies because my library has long wait lists for his books
Edit: Thanks for all of the discussion! This post brought me a lot of positive on an otherwise rough day. I've decided to start with "Small Gods"
I just want to say again thank you to everyone who responded to me or to someone else. It's been a joy hearing what each person has to contribute to the conversation
Even if they fall flat (which I highly doubt) all of your enthusiasm came through and that really in itself means so much. It was truly touching
I know people lump Equal Rites in with the witches series because it's got Granny Weatherwax in, but I'll still propose every time I see it listed that it really shouldn't count as such. Granny is not the same witch in Equal Rites as she's depicted in the later books, and quite a few rather important details of the later books get retconned in or out by the time of Wyrd Sisters. At the time of Rites, the series is still in its early installment weirdness phase.
In Equal Rites, Granny is somehow explicitly stated to be the only witch around Bad Ass, which is inexplicably isn't located in Lancre yet. Nanny Ogg is conspicuously absent, and the backstory hinted at for the time before Granny became a witch is wildly different than what is stated in the later books. For instance, none of the events of Witches Abroad and prior events with her sister could possibly have happened to the Equal Rites version of Granny. She isn't the protagonist of Equal Rites, Esk is. Otherwise, by the same logic half of the Tiffany Aching series should also be in the same cycle merely because Tiffany stays at Granny's place and trains under her for a while just as Esk did.
I really don't think reading Equal Rites first is necessary to begin at Wyrd Sisters.
Whole heartedly agree, I don't really consider the first 3 Discworld novels to really be part of the main series so much as proto-Discworld books. Almost nothing that takes place in them is even mentioned again barring "What I Did On My Holidays"
Well, Esk does eventually come back for an appearance in one of the Tiffany Aching books. The incident that turned the librarian into an orangutan is seen in The Light Fantastic, as a side effect of the Octavo breaking its containment. The Last Hero is basically a direct continuation of Rincewind's earlier adventures with Cohen, and he winds up on the expedition partially because he's known to be the only person (other than Twoflower, who is absent) to go over the edge and return to tell the tale. Other than the lone remaining sailor from the Maria Pesto, anyway, and he only lived long enough to gibber his one line before keeling over dead. Prior to launching Leonard's great kite, the circumfence around the edge of the Disc near Krull briefly becomes a factor in that the wizards have to blow it up before the craft gets snagged during its launch, and nobody except Rincewind seems to know anything about it in advance.
There are probably other little cameos and callbacks I've forgotten. But yes, the first couple of books were very weird. Pratchett seemingly hadn't formed his final vision for what kind of world the Discworld would be, and it's still riffing heavily on well known fantasy adventure tropes and works like Conan and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.
Personal addition: Equal Rites is not as good as usual Pratchett’s books, I am tempted to say one could just skip it.