“What are the best books For Fans Of Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy?” We looked at 151 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 17 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Books Similar To Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 100+ titles, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
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“It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“”Wild nights are my glory,”” the unearthly stranger told them. “”I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.””
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.”
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And Another Thing … will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author’s widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling children’s writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Douglas Adams himself once said, ‘I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book. Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number.’ Belson said of Eoin Colfer, ‘I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new.’ Colfer, a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays, said, ‘Being given the chance to write this book is like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice. For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world.’ Prepare to be amazed…
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Bill was a peaceful farm boy until he was lured by the martial music of a passing recruitment sergeant, drugged, and made to enlist in the Empire Space Corps. His basic training is sheer hell, but somehow he manages to stay alive and achieve the rank of Fusetender 6th Class in the process. En route to an engagement with the lizard-like Chingers, Bill’s spaceship is involved in a supreme conflict and — by accident — Bill is the man who saves the ship and wins the day. A grateful Galaxy awards him its highest accolade: the Purple Dart, to be presented by the Emperor himself on the fabulous aluminium-covered planet Helio. And then his adventures really start to take off in the most bizarre and surprising ways …
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“Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis (“”noble dragon”” for those who don’t understand italics) has appeared in Discworld’s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all…). How did it get there? How is the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night involved? Can the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order – and the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork to power?
Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon…who could ask for anything more?”
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Awakening from a drunken spree in a London pub to find himself on one of Saturn’s moons, Lister joins the Space Corps and boards the Red Dwarf, determined to return to Earth
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“Another outrageously clever installment in the Discworld files, Interesting Times reminds the world why Terry Pratchett is considered the best fantasy and humor writer in the English speaking world.
When a carrier albatross arrives from the Counterweight Continent with an Urgent Request for a “”Great Wizard,”” Rincewind is “”volunteered.”” Along his absurdly delicious travels, he meets a colorful band of characters only Terry Pratchett could compile. Their mission is to either defend or destroy the Forbidden City of Hunghung. The instructions are not entirely clear.”
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The fairies are back, but this time they don’t just want your teeth . . . Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves. There’s a full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orangutan. It’s Midsummer Night — no time for dreaming. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.
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Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl—an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere—a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Here in Neverwhere, Door is a powerful noblewoman who has vowed to find the evil agent of her family’s slaughter and thwart the destruction of this strange underworld kingdom. If Richard is ever to return to his former life and home, he must join Lady Door’s quest to save her world—and may well die trying.
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Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde’s Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it’s a bibliophile’s dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë’s novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. Fforde’s ingenious fantasy—enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel—unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix.
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When a passenger check-in desk shoots through the roof of a terminal at Heathrow Airport in flames, Dirk Gently investigates the cosmic forces at play
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H.G. Wells, a pioneer in the science fiction genre, produced awesomely imaginative novels whose technologies seem impossibly sophisticated for a writer living in an era before automobiles and the widespread application of electricity. In his work The Time Machine, Wells Time Traveller, a gentleman inventor living in England, traverses first thousands of years and then millions into the future, before bringing back the knowledge of the grave degeneration of the human race and the planet. One wonders if Wells could truly see into the future, as over 100 years after its publication date his visions seem timelier than ever.
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“Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop’s bird stump. It’s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier.
But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right–not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.”
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“There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world’s last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan.
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon — each of whom has lived among Earth’s mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle — are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they’ve got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he’s a really nice kid). There’s just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . .”
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Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.
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It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.
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“The beginning of the hilarious and irreverent series that has more than 80 million copies worldwide, The Color of Magic is where we meet tourist Twoflower and wizard guide Ricewind, and follow them on their always-bizarre journeys.
A writer who has been compared to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams, Sir Terry Pratchett has created a complex, yet zany world filled with a host of unforgettable characters who navigate around a profound fantasy universe, complete with its own set of cultures and rules.”
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“DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime
We find the whole person
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)Douglas Adams, the “master of wacky words and even wackier tales” (Entertainment Weekly) once again boggles the mind with a completely unbelievable story of ghosts, time travel, eccentric computer geniuses, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the end of the world, and—of course—missing cats.”
| # | Book | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 18 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Taste Dive | |
| 19 | A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485 | Nicholas Vincent | Goodreads |
| 20 | A Fine and Pleasant Misery | ||
| 21 | A Hat Full Of Sky | Taste Dive | |
| 22 | A Scanner Darkly | Philip K. Dick | Goodreads 2 |
| 23 | Absolution Gap | Alastair Reynolds | Goodreads 2 |
| 24 | Agatha Heterodyne and the Siege of Mechanicsburg (Girl Genius, #12) | Phil Foglio | Goodreads |
| 25 | American Gods | Taste Dive | |
| 26 | Anansi Boys | Taste Dive | |
| 27 | Another Roadside Attraction | Tom Robbins | Library Point |
| 28 | Anowa | Ama Ata Aidoo | AM Reading |
| 29 | Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) | Rob Grant | Goodreads |
| 30 | Bellwether | Connie Willis | Goodreads 2 |
| 31 | Bossy Pants | Quora | |
| 32 | Brothers in Arms (Vorkosigan Saga, #5) | Lois McMaster Bujold | Goodreads 2 |
| 33 | Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon | ||
| 34 | Carpe Jugulum | Taste Dive | |
| 35 | Castle Perilous | ||
| 36 | Catch-22 | ||
| 37 | Chicks in Chainmail | ||
| 38 | City of Death | James Goss, Douglas Adams, & David Fisher | Barnes & Noble |
| 39 | Cowboy Feng | ||
| 40 | Diamond Mask (Galactic Milieu Trilogy, #2) | Julian May | Goodreads |
| 41 | Dimension of Miracles” | Robert Sheckly | Quora |
| 42 | Disc World | Taste Dive | |
| 43 | Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? | Taste Dive | |
| 44 | Dune | Taste Dive | |
| 45 | Earth | David Brin | Goodreads 2 |
| 46 | Ender’s Game | Taste Dive | |
| 47 | Ender’s Shadow | Taste Dive | |
| 48 | Equal Rites | Taste Dive | |
| 49 | Eric | Taste Dive | |
| 50 | Feet Of Clay | Taste Dive | |
| 51 | Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climate | Quora | |
| 52 | First Contact: Or, It’s Later Than You Think | Evan Mandery | Jet Shred |
| 53 | Foreigner (Foreigner, #1) | C.J. Cherryh | Goodreads 2 |
| 54 | Fragile Things | Taste Dive | |
| 55 | Going Postal | Taste Dive | |
| 56 | Hal Spacejock | Simon Haynes | Goodreads |
| 57 | His Dark Materials | Taste Dive | |
| 58 | Hogfather | Taste Dive | |
| 59 | I Shall Wear Midnight | Taste Dive | |
| 60 | I, Robot | Taste Dive | |
| 61 | Jhereg | ||
| 62 | Jingo | Taste Dive | |
| 63 | Life, The Universe And Everything | Taste Dive | |
| 64 | Making Money | Taste Dive | |
| 65 | Maskerade | Taste Dive | |
| 66 | Men At Arms | Taste Dive | |
| 67 | Methuselah’s Children | Robert A. Heinlein | Goodreads |
| 68 | Monstrous Regiment | Taste Dive | |
| 69 | More Trees to Climb | Ben Moor | BBC America |
| 70 | Mort | Taste Dive | |
| 71 | Mostly Harmless | Taste Dive | |
| 72 | Mother Night | ||
| 73 | Moving Pictures | Taste Dive | |
| 74 | Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall (War Memoirs, #4) | Spike Milligan | Goodreads |
| 75 | Neuromancer | Taste Dive | |
| 76 | Night Watch | Taste Dive | |
| 77 | Nursery Crimes | Quora | |
| 78 | Phule’s Company | ||
| 79 | Pyramids | Taste Dive | |
| 80 | Reaper Man | Taste Dive | |
| 81 | Rendezvous With Rama | Taste Dive | |
| 82 | Resplendent (Destiny’s Children, #4) | Stephen Baxter | Goodreads |
| 83 | Right Ho, Jeeves | ||
| 84 | Ringworld | Taste Dive | |
| 85 | Sirens of Titan | ||
| 86 | Slaughterhouse 5 | ||
| 87 | Small Gods | Taste Dive | |
| 88 | Smoke And Mirrors | Taste Dive | |
| 89 | Snow Crash | Taste Dive | |
| 90 | So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish | Taste Dive | |
| 91 | So You Want to Be a Wizard | Diane Duane | Barnes & Noble |
| 92 | Soul Music | Taste Dive | |
| 93 | Sourcery | Taste Dive | |
| 94 | Sparks | David Quantick | BBC America |
| 95 | Speaker For The Dead | Taste Dive | |
| 96 | Spellsinger | ||
| 97 | Stardust | Taste Dive | |
| 98 | Starship Titanic” | Terry Jones | Quora |
| 99 | Starship Troopers | Taste Dive | |
| 100 | Stranger In A Strange Land | Taste Dive | |
| 101 | SuperMutant Magic Academy | Jillian Tamaki | Barnes & Noble |
| 102 | Surely you must be joking Mr. Feynman | Quora | |
| 103 | The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents | Taste Dive | |
| 104 | The Amber Spyglass | Taste Dive | |
| 105 | The Big Over Easy | ||
| 106 | The Brentford Triangle | Robert Rankin | Goodreads |
| 107 | The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks | Alan Moore and Various Artists | Barnes & Noble |
| 108 | The Complete Robot (Robot #0.3) | Isaac Asimov | Goodreads |
| 109 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon | Library Point |
| 110 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham | Goodreads 2 |
| 111 | The Fellowship Of The Ring | Taste Dive | |
| 112 | The Fifth Elephant | Taste Dive | |
| 113 | The Golden Compass | Taste Dive | |
| 114 | The Great Dune Trilogy | Frank Herbert | Goodreads |
| 115 | The Humans | Matt Haig | BBC America |
| 116 | The Hyperion Omnibus: Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons | Goodreads |
| 117 | The Last Continent | Taste Dive | |
| 118 | The Last Hero | Taste Dive | |
| 119 | The Light Fantastic | Taste Dive | |
| 120 | The Naked God (Night’s Dawn, #3) | Peter F. Hamilton | Goodreads |
| 121 | The Next Set (Thursday Next, #1-4) | Jasper Fforde | Goodreads |
| 122 | The Philosophical Strangler | Eric Flint | Library Point |
| 123 | The Player of Games (Culture, #2) | Iain M. Banks | Goodreads 2 |
| 124 | The Princess Bride | Taste Dive | |
| 125 | The Reluctant King | ||
| 126 | The Rest of Us Just Live Here | Patrick Ness | BBC America |
| 127 | The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe | Taste Dive | |
| 128 | The Return Of The King | Taste Dive | |
| 129 | The Salmon Of Doubt | Taste Dive | |
| 130 | The Sandman | Taste Dive | |
| 131 | The Secret of Platform 13 | Eva Ibbotson | AM Reading |
| 132 | The Sheriff of Yrnameer | Michael Rubens | Jet Shred |
| 133 | The Stainless Steel Rat | Quora | |
| 134 | The Subtle Knife | Taste Dive | |
| 135 | The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco | John Birmingham | Goodreads |
| 136 | The Tripods Trilogy (The Tripods, #1-3) | John Christopher | Goodreads 2 |
| 137 | The Truth | Taste Dive | |
| 138 | The Two Towers | Taste Dive | |
| 139 | The War Of The Worlds | Taste Dive | |
| 140 | The Wee Free Men | Taste Dive | |
| 141 | The Winds of Dune (Heroes of Dune #2) | Brian Herbert | Goodreads |
| 142 | They Shoot Canoes Don’t | ||
| 143 | Thief Of Time | Taste Dive | |
| 144 | Thud! | Taste Dive | |
| 145 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea | Taste Dive | |
| 146 | Unseen Academicals | Taste Dive | |
| 147 | V For Vendetta | Taste Dive | |
| 148 | Watchmen | Taste Dive | |
| 149 | Wintersmith | Taste Dive | |
| 150 | Witches Abroad | Taste Dive | |
| 151 | Wyrd Sisters | Taste Dive | |
| Source | Article |
| AM Reading | 6 Books To Read If You Loved ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ |
| Barnes & Noble | Fighting Post-Hitchhiker’s Disorder: 6 Essential Books for Douglas Adams Fans |
| BBC America | 7 Books All Douglas Adams Fans Should Read |
| Goodreads | Books like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts |
| Goodreads 2 | Books like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide, #1) |
| Jet Shred | Books Like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
| Library Point | If You Like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams |
| Quora | Are there any other books like Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy? |
| Can anyone suggest books similar to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? | |
| Taste Dive | IF YOU LIKE |
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