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If You Like Douglas Adams Booklist

Page Modified: June 19, 2009

Books packed with outrageous, zany fun and/or an out of the world sense of humor

Fiction

• The Eyre Affair
  Author: Fforde, Jasper
  Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 0670030643 Date: 2002
  PW
  Based on an imaginary world where time and reality bend in the most convincing and original way since Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Eyre Affair is a an endlessly inventive caper unlike any other.
  Suggested Reading: Time Travel Stars | Alternative History Stars
  Updated 12/13/01
• Lost in a Good Book
  Author: Fforde, Jasper
  Publisher: Viking Books $ 24.95 ISBN: 0670031909 Date: 2003
  KirkusLJ
  Literary detective heroine Thursday Next returns in this follow-up to the acclaimed The Eyre Affair. To rescue the love of her life, Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of Poe's "The Raven." Soon, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences.
  Updated 3.13.03
• The Road to Mars
  Author: Idle, Eric
  Publisher: Pantheon Books $ 24 ISBN: 0-375-40340-X Date: 1999
  LJ
  Douglas Adams meets Kurt Vonnegut meets Isaac Asimov in this wildly inventive and hilarious sci-fi thriller about life on the interplanetary comedy circuitin the 22nd century.
  
• The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
  Author: Moers, Walter
  Publisher: Overlook $ 26.95 ISBN: 1585677248 Date: 2005
  PW
  Captain Bluebear tells the story of his first 13-1/2 lives spent on the mysterious continent of Zamonia, where intelligence is an infectious disease, water flows uphill, and dangers lie in wait for him around every corner.
  Updated 8.2.05
• Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
  Author: Moore, Christopher
  Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 0380978415 Date: 2003
  PW
  The national bestselling author of Lamb devises a dazzling whale of a tale. Everybody knows that humpback whales sing, but why? Researcher Nathan Quinn plies the waters off Hawaii in search of an answer. Lately, though, Nate's beginning to wonder if he's spent just a little too much time in the sun.
  Updated 3.31.03
• Hogfather: A Novel of Discworld
  Author: Pratchett, Terry
  Publisher: Harper Prism $ 24 ISBN: 0061050466 Date: 1998
  PW
  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, of maybe not, in this brilliant Discworld novel of the holiday season turned upside down by Death (the character, not the condition).
  
• Monstrous Regiment
  Author: Pratchett, Terry
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 006001315X Date: 2003
  PW
  The 29th entry in Pratchett's internationally bestselling Discworld series explores the art of war and the brave women who wage it.
  Updated 9.08.03
• Going Postal: A Novel of Discworld
  Author: Pratchett, Terry
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060013133 Date: 2004
  PW
  The newest entry in Pratchett's internationally bestselling series is a splendid send-up of government, the postal system, and everything that lies in between.
  Suggested Reading: Political Fiction Stars | Adult Books for Young Adults
  Updated 9.6.04
• The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse
  Author: Rankin, Robert
  Publisher: Gollancz $ 9.95 (paper) ISBN: 0575074019 Date: 2004
  PW
  Toy Town...now older, bigger, and certainly not wiser. The Old Rich, who have made their millions from the royalties on their world-famous nursery rhymes, are being murdered. One by one. Horribly. A psychopath is on the loose. He must be stopped at any cost. It's a job for toy Town's only detective--but he's missing, leaving only Eddie Bear, and his bestest friend Jack, to track down the mad killer. A hilarious, very irreverent fantasy from the cult creator of Web Site Story, The Sprouts of Wrath, and the five-book Brentford Trilogy. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 1.21.04
• To Say Nothing of the Dog : How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last
  Author: Willis, Connie
  Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell $ 23.95 ISBN: 0553099957 Date: 1998
  BL
  It is 1888 and Ned Henry is shuttling between the 1940s and modern day, researching Coventry Cathedral for a patron who wants to rebuild it. But when the time continuum is disrupted, Ned must scramble to set things right.
  Suggested Reading: Time Travel Stars

Nonfiction

• Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams
  Author: Simpson, M.J.
  Publisher: Justin Charles $ 27.95 ISBN: 1932112170 Date: 2003
  Booklist
  M.J. Simpson has produced a rich, revealing chronicle of one of the most wildly creative minds of our time: Douglas Adams, creator of the phenomenally successful Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  Updated 11.25.03
• Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams
  Author: Webb, Nick
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 25.95 ISBN: 0345476506 Date: 2005
  Kirkus
  The only authorized biography of the beloved, bestselling creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--to be released as a feature film in June 2005 from Walt Disney Pictures.
  Updated 12.27.04