If the rush of Vimes chasing Carcer into the past—and then having to survive the barricades and the Cable Street Particulars—hooked you, you’ll love the way The Anubis Gates throws professor Brendan Doyle into 1810 London and forces him to outwit cutthroats, sorcerers, and a body-hopping villain. Like Vimes-as-Keel steering young Sam through chaos, Doyle must improvise through conspiracies and riots, making every alleyway ambush and masquerade feel like another step in a dangerous, time-tangled pursuit.

If the revolution in Ankh-Morpork—the barricades, the Particulars under Swing, Vetinari’s shadowy maneuvering—was your jam, The Traitor Baru Cormorant gives you an even sharper blade of political intrigue. Baru fights empires with ledgers and leverage, infiltrating a colonizing power the way Vimes infiltrates his own city’s corrupt machinery. The stakes are intimate and civic at once: coups, currency wars, and moral compromises that echo Vimes’s tightrope walk between order and justice.

If you enjoyed how Night Watch balances grim streets and gallows humor—Vimes’s dry asides in the face of the Cable Street Particulars, the absurdity threaded through blood-and-brick barricades—The Rook delivers that vibe in spades. Myfanwy Thomas wakes up with no memory and letters from her former self, then must run a secret government outfit managing supernatural threats. It’s a witty, deadpan romp through paperwork, monsters, and office politics that scratches the same "black-coffee humor in the dark" itch.

If seeing Vimes become John Keel for young Sam—finding the spine of his principles amid riot and betrayal—moved you, The Goblin Emperor offers that same slow-burn transformation. Thrust onto a fractious throne after a tragedy, Maia learns to wield power without losing his conscience, navigating court plots with the same stubborn decency Vimes shows on the barricades. It’s about building a just order in a treacherous city, one hard choice at a time.

If Vimes’s moral calculus—refusing to be the Particulars’ kind of "justice," protecting civilians while hunting Carcer—stayed with you, The Just City is a fascinating echo. Gods gather thinkers from across history to build Plato’s Republic, then discover that ruling ethically is messier than any dialog. Like Vimes on Cable Street, characters confront consent, policing, and fairness in a living city—and the book keeps asking whether power can be just when people are complicated.