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In my opinion, the Discworld books are read best in published order, due to the development of some of the jokes/characters/events that occur. It's not essential (and certainly some disagree), and some folk find they prefer to follow character arcs rather than published order (eg. reading all the Witches-centric ones).
I'll note, however, that my suggestion of "published order" might leave the first two in your path, ones that some folk find are a bit "slow" to get going. I didn't find them so, (not in the least) but some did.
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I'm very much with montsnmags on this.
Pratchett himself says that it was after he had written the first novels when he "discovered the advantages of a plot"
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The first ones are funny enough but more in the way of a set of hilarious anecdotes. But generally the published order seems preferable.
Try and have fun !
(No, despite the avatar I'm definitely not an expert on T.P. but a longtime fan. Some of the jokes are to good to miss. I really hope he can master his sad illness for some time to come.)