Starting book: Mort
What’s to love: the personification of the Grim Reaper just trying to be a cool dad; explorations of existentialism and family; rock music
This was the Discworld series I cut my teeth on. Like the City Watch, Death is one of the most popular subseries, mainly due to its titular character. A great deal of this series follows Death as he tries to better understand the ways of humans – why and how they do the things they do. This includes taking time off from his job reaping souls in order to become a farmer, as well as trying to impress his no-nonsense granddaughter, Susan. He is also rather fond of curries and cats. While I think Discworld as a whole is a very human series, I think that in some ways, the Death series is ironically the most human of all.
