Douglas Adams
English author, screenwriter and humorist best known for the comic science-fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; also wrote the Dirk Gently novels and worked in radio and television.
Books
This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.
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1. The Hitchhiker's Trilogy
A Trilogy in Five Parts
After Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for an interstellar bypass, a bewildered human and his eccentric alien companion hitch a ride across the galaxy, encountering a two-headed ex-president, a chronically depressed robot, and a wildly unpredictable spaceship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive; along the way they rely on a peculiar electronic travel guide while stumbling through surreal bureaucracy, absurdist philosophy, and a quest to understand the nature of existence that famously yields the cryptic answer “42.”
The 17010th Greatest Book of All Time