This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Discworld Diary" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(March 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The topic of this articlemay not meet Wikipedia'sgeneral notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citingreliable secondary sources that areindependent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to bemerged,redirected, ordeleted. Find sources: "Discworld Diary" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(June 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

TheDiscworld Diaries are a series of themeddiaries based on theDiscworld novels byTerry Pratchett. Each one (except the 2008 diary) is based on anAnkh-Morpork institution, and has an opening section containing information about that institution written by Pratchett andStephen Briggs.

The diaries feature a great deal of background information, far more than could reasonably be put into the novels. However, some of this occasionally finds its way into the series proper - the concept of female assassins, the introduction of Black Widow House, and the characters of Miss Alice Band and Mme les Deux-Épées were notable ideas that first appeared in the Assassins' Guild Yearbook,^[1] and later in the Discworld short story "Minutes of the Meeting to Form the Proposed Ankh-Morpork Federation of Scouts" inA Blink of the Screen,^{[citation needed]} to then becoming characters and a playable Assassins' Guild House inDiscworld MUD.

The early diaries are illustrated byPaul Kidby.

Those for 2015 and 2016 were by Pratchett aided and abetted by the Discworld Emporium, with additional illustrations by Peter Dennis

The diaries are:

• Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998 (1997); the cover art features the characterDeath, possibly the character who appeared in the greatest number ofDiscworld novels.
• Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1999 (1998); the cover art features the character CommanderSamuel Vimes of theWatch, His Grace the Duke of Ankh, in his beloved street uniform, in other words, battered Watchman armor.
• Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 (1999); the cover art features the character Lord Downey, theAssassins' Guild leader, with his specialty peppermint (rumored poisoned).
• Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001 (2000); the cover art features Dr Whiteface, the Fools' Guild leader, bursting through a paper hoop.
• Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002 (2001); the cover art features a "photofit" of Mr Boggis, the Thieves' Guild leader.
• Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003 (2002); the cover art features Mr John Not-A-Vampire-At-All Smith, head of the Ankh-Morpork Mission of the Black Ribboners with a cup of steaming brown liquid, likely coffee or hot cocoa.
• Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook Diary 2007 (2006); the cover art features Moist von Lipwig, the Postmaster of theAnkh-Morpork Post Office, wearing his token golden suit and wingèd hat, with Lipwigzers on either side of him.
• Lu Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008 (2007); the cover art featuresLu-Tze in the lotus position, with his broom in front of him, against a square with the phrase "It won't get better if you pick it" (from the Way of Mrs Cosmopolite).
• 2015 Discworld Diary. First & Last Aid. We R Igors (2014); cover art features Igor.
• 2016 Discworld Diary: A Practical Manual for the Modern Witch (2015); the cover art depictsNanny Ogg andGranny Weatherwax drawn by Peter Dennis^[2]
• The Terry Pratchett Diary. Terry Pratchett & Friends (2016), aided & abetted by the Discworld Emporium. Illustrations by Peter Dennis. Introduction by Rhianna Pratchett and contributions by Neil Gaiman, Dr Pat Harkin, A.S.Byatt, Professor David Lloyd, Roger Peyton, Colin Smythe, Bernard Pearson, Paul Kidby, Stephen Baxter, Sandra Kidby, Amy Anderson, Jennifer Brehl, Philippa Dickinson, Maddy Prior, Ian Stewart, Malcolm Edwards, Stephen Briggs and Rob Wilkins. Only the dates are given, not the days of the week, so it is suitable for use in any year.
• The Ankh-Morpork Archives Vol. 1 (2019) andVol. 2 (2020); anthologies of material written for the Discworld Diaries.

There were no diaries published for the years 2004-2006, and 2009-2015;The Discworld Almanak by Pratchett andBernard Pearson was published in 2004.

Due to their limited edition nature, Discworld Diaries become increasingly valuable as they grow older. As of 2016, the 1998Discworld's Unseen University Diary was available for around £90.^[3]

• Discworld Diaries series listing at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database

• Discworld books
• Fictional diaries

• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Articles needing additional references from March 2016
• All articles needing additional references
• Articles with topics of unclear notability from June 2023
• All articles with topics of unclear notability
• All articles with unsourced statements
• Articles with unsourced statements from March 2016