Douglas Adams Books in Order

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, bewildered everyman Arthur Dent is whisked into deep space by his friend Ford Prefect and the starship Heart of Gold, stumbling into a funny tour of an indifferent universe.

After barely escaping a Vogon attack, Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and Trillian ride the Heart of Gold to Milliways, a restaurant built inside a time bubble at the universe's end, where interstellar politics, impossible coincidences and very bad decisions collide.

This spoof annual tied to the sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News crams each page with parody features, fake news and quirky snippets, including early versions of Adams's comic dictionary ideas that later grew into The Meaning of Liff.

Summoned from a sleepy exile, Arthur and Ford join Slartibartfast, Trillian and Zaphod to stop the fanatical robots of Krikkit from wiping out the rest of the galaxy, in a chaos filled mix of cricket jokes, time travel and cosmic sabotage.

In this comic dictionary created with John Lloyd, Adams raids real place names and reassigns them as words for everyday feelings, frustrations and social mishaps, turning road signs and map labels into a running joke about how language really works.

Arthur Dent returns to a mysteriously restored Earth, falls in love with the elusive Fenchurch and tries to make sense of vanished dolphins, strange memories and God's final message, in a more romantic, earthbound but still very odd Hitchhiker adventure.

Edited by Douglas Adams for charity, this collection gathers irreverent Christmas pieces, TV tie ins and sketches from leading British comedians, including rare Adams stories and Hitchhiker fragments, all produced to raise money for Comic Relief.

Meet Dirk Gently, a shambling, debt ridden private detective who believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of everything and tackles a case that mixes missing cats, ghosts, ancient aliens, time travel and a Cambridge college dinner gone very wrong.

Dirk Gently stumbles into an explosion at Heathrow Airport and a string of impossible deaths that turn out to involve bored Norse gods, record contracts and a mysterious clinic, in a darker but still absurd mystery set in contemporary London.

Part travelogue, part conservation plea, this nonfiction journey follows Douglas Adams and zoologist Mark Carwardine as they cross the globe seeking endangered animals, blending sharp humor with sobering glimpses of kakapos, Komodo dragons, rhinos and other species on the brink.

This follow up to The Meaning of Liff expands Adams and John Lloyd's joke dictionary with even more place name based words, offering a fresh batch of silly yet accurate labels for oddly specific situations English never quite named.

Arthur Dent washes up on a backwater planet and tries to build a quiet life, just as his old friends, his reporter ex Tricia and their unpredictable daughter Random are drawn into a last, bleaker twist in the Guide's story.

Recorded at London's Almeida Theatre in 1995, this live performance captures Douglas Adams reading and acting out favorite passages from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its sequels, complete with asides, timing and audience laughter you can hear.

Based on Douglas Adams's concept for a luxury starliner that suffers a spontaneous massive existence failure, this comic novel follows three humans swept aboard the malfunctioning Starship Titanic as they battle eccentric robots, bureaucratic chaos and an insurance scam.

A posthumous collection of Douglas Adams's essays, interviews and fiction, this volume ranges from technology and atheism to travel and conservation, and includes the witty, unfinished Dirk Gently novel that was still on his screen when he died.

Written by Eoin Colfer from Douglas Adams's notes, this sixth Hitchhiker novel picks up after Mostly Harmless as Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Random face yet another threat of annihilation, runaway bureaucracy, bored gods and the eternally insult hurling Wowbagger.

Adapted from Douglas Adams's unfilmed Doctor Who script, this novel sends the Fourth Doctor and Romana back to Cambridge, where an absent minded professor, a mysterious book and a hidden Time Lord prison draw them into a chase across space and time.

Based on Douglas Adams's Key to Time adventure, this novel has the Doctor, Romana and K 9 arriving on the mysterious world of Zanak, whose brutal, bombastic Captain hides a planet sized secret that threatens worlds far beyond the target of their quest.

This remastered audio set presents the second Hitchhiker's radio series, following Arthur and Ford as they try to escape prehistoric Earth while Zaphod is dragged to Frogstar, faces the Total Perspective Vortex, and discovers who might really run the universe.

Drawn to what looks like an ordinary cricket match, the Doctor and Romana are swept into a revived war with the ruthless Krikkitmen, racing across worlds to keep a scattered cosmic key from freeing an imprisoned planet bent on destroying the universe.

An illustrated tour through Douglas Adams's archive, this large format book reproduces notebooks, drafts, letters, scripts and speeches, tracing his ideas from school days and early collaborations to Hitchhiker's, Dirk Gently, Doctor Who, Last Chance to See and digital experiments.