If Vetinari’s dry manipulations, the diplomatic farce around the Scone of Stone, and Uberwald’s etiquette wars made you grin, you’ll love the deadpan cosmic skewering in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams turns pointless red tape into high art—think Vogon bureaucracy as the galactic echo of Ankh-Morpork paperwork—and matches Pratchett’s knack for punchline precision and worldview-sized jokes while keeping the banter as quick as Vimes’s quips.

You watched Vimes walk the diplomatic tightrope in Uberwald—juggling dwarf factionalism, werewolf nobility like Wolfgang and Serafine, and the watchful eyes of figures like Lady Margolotta. The Goblin Emperor gives you that same knife’s‑edge politicking: Maia must master an intricate court where every bow, title, and treaty carries teeth. If the tense reception scenes and ceremonial minefields around the Scone of Stone thrilled you, this deft, humane political drama will hit the same pleasure centers.

If you enjoyed Vimes tracking the stolen Scone, interviewing prickly dwarfs, and butting heads with predatory werewolves, you’ll click with Peter Grant’s first case in Rivers of London. It’s a modern London cop mystery—complete with a no‑nonsense mentor (Nightingale) and territorial entities—delivered with the same dry humor and procedural grit that powered Vimes’s legwork from Ankh-Morpork to Überwald.

If the deep dive into Uberwald—dwarf law around the Scone of Stone, werewolf bloodlines, and the cultural codes Vimes keeps tripping over—was your catnip, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell offers an even denser tapestry. Clarke’s alt‑Regency England packs footnoted myths and legalistic magical tradition that influence diplomacy and war, much like how dwarf custom dictates every step of Vimes’s mission.

Part of the joy in The Fifth Elephant is how threads—Vimes’s ambassadorial duty, the Scone heist, Angua’s family reckoning, and Vetinari’s long game—snap together. The Lies of Locke Lamora delivers that same braided plotting: cons within cons, criminal guilds sparring with nobility, and twists that reframe everything the way the Uberwald revelations reshape Vimes’s case.