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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    August 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Dirk Gently

1 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (May-1987)
2 - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Mar-1989)

Hitchhiker's Guide

1 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Jan-1979)
2 - Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
3 - Life, the Universe and Everything (Jan-1983)
4 - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Mar-1985)
5 - Young Zaphoid Plays It Safe (1986)
6 - Mostly Harmless (Oct-1992)
7 - The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (May-2002)

Book List in Order: 17 titles



  • Seconds before Earth demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' who, for the first fifteen years, has...



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    Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improba...



  • The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goals of total a...



  • In life and, indeed, in liff, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. This text uses place names to describe some of these meanings.

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  • ARTHUR DENT IS OUT OF HIS BATHROBE, IN LOVE, AND WONDERING WHY THE DOLPHINS SAID...SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH Was the earth really demolished? Why did all the dolphins disappear? What is God's final message to His creatures? Arthur Dent,...



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    Contains the unabridged texts of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe," "Life, the Universe, and Everything," "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"...



  • There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time-traveller, AND... the devastating secret of humankind! DETECTIVE GENTLY'S BILL FOR SAVING HUMAN RACE FR...



  • Beloved, bumbling Detective Dirk Gently returns in this standalone novel from Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.When a check-in desk at London’s...



  • Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIt...






  • Douglas Adams changed the face of science fiction with his cosmically comic novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and its classic sequels. Sadly for his countless admirers, he hitched his own ride to the great beyond much too soon. Culled posthu...



  • A rollicking, thought-provoking dictionary for the modern age, featuring definitions for those things we don't have words for, from the New York Times bestselling author behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, and TV producer John...



  • The legendary lost Doctor Who story from the unique mind of Douglas Adams Inside this book is another book the strangest, most important and most dangerous book in the entire universe. The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey is one of the ...



  • The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris " a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is so...



  • The hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces. With the first segment successfull...



  • Rediscover the lost Doctor Who adventure by Douglas Adams. Intergalactic war? That’s just not cricket … or is it? The Doctor promised Romana the end of the universe, so she’s less than impressed when what she gets is a cricket match. But then...



  • This all-new Target novelisation is based on the televised version of The Pirate PlanetThe hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful...



  • When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In 42, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Adams has published 17 books.

Douglas Adams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, 42, was published in August 2023.

The first book by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was published in January 1979.

Yes. Douglas Adams has 2 series.