Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett

One of the better Pratchett novels; I think this was written when he was really getting into his swing, as it references his fun children's (or is it YA?) book, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, several times, and was followed by Night Watch, which I think I remember as one of my favorites. The Anthropomorphic Personification of Death is being forced into retirement for becoming too human-like, which leaves Death (in his newly assumed identity fieldhand Bill Door) facing death and causes problems all over Discworld. I sometimes wonder what it means that I was so able to enjoy a book in which one of the protagonists ("Windle Poons," the zombie of a recently-departed 130-year-old wizard) has to face an infestation of the dreaded parasite, the shopping mall, which in this case is an actual life form.