Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
07th Jan 2017
Douglas Adams
I read this each year around Christmas time. It is one of my favourite books. Unique ideas, sci-fi, human condition, and humour. Well paced and at around 150 pages an easy read.
Love it, highly recommended.
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- The Mindful Way through Depression
- Far From the Madding Crowd
- It Shouldnt Happen to a Vet
- Heavy Weather
- Misspent Youth
- The Bolivian Times
- Guards Guards
- 2022
- No Cunning Plan
- The Diary of a Nobody
- A Long Way Down
- Dandelion Wine
- Flower Hunters
- Land
- Wyrd Sisters
- Freezing Order
- Boffinology
- Equal Rights 3
- Uneasy Rider
- The Great Arc
- Interesting Times
- Latitude and the Magnetic Earth
- The Old Patagonia Express
- Prairie Fever
- Eavesdropping on Jane Austens England
- Eleven Minutes Late
- The Osterman Weekend
- If Only They Could Talk
- The Pillars of Hercules
- Chocky
- The Lights of Cobb and Co
- Bomb Book and Compass
- Red Dwarf
- The Sky People
- Payback
- How Green Was My Curate
- A Light History of Hot Air
- O-Zone
- 2021
- Turns Out I'm Fine
- Wanderers of Time
- Dark Space
- Portrait of Dr Gachet
- How We Became Human
- Filth
- A Crack in the World
- The Last Continent
- Steak For Breakfast
- Thin Paths
- The Species Seekers
- The Colour of Magic
- The Land Before Avocado
- Wintersmith
- Algorithms to Live By
- The Racketeer
- The Island of the Colourblind
- The $100 Startup
- Larkin About in Ireland
- Measuring The Universe
- Inherit The Earth
- Prelude To Space
- Thief of Time
- The Difference Engine
- Life inc
- The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass
- From broke to multi-millionaire in just 7 years
- Witches Abroad
- 2020
- The Wave Watcher's Companion
- Natural Born Keller
- By the Shores of Silver Lake
- Mail Obsession
- Stumbling on Happiness
- The Tangled Lands
- Small Gods
- Utopian Man
- The Mandibles
- On the Banks of Plum Creek
- How Proust Can Change Your Life
- The Body - A Guide for Occupants
- Jaywalking with the Irish
- Breaking Good
- The Ancient Paths
- On Our Selection
- The Book Club
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Spare Room Tycoon
- The Dragonbone Chair
- The Vampire Armand
- Going Postal
- The Moneymaker
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- So, Anyway
- The Rum Diary
- Bossypants
- The Hinge Factor
- Equal Rites 2
- The Magic of Reality
- Our Uncle Charlie
- The Book Thief
- The Natural Way Of Things
- The Art Of Travel
- Madeleines In Manhattan
- The Parentations
- Pyramids 2
- The Rebel Rules
- 2019
- Hammerjack
- Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy 2
- Mr Rosenblums List
- Mindswap
- Drylands
- Lullaby
- The Raw Shark Texts
- The Wizard of Linn
- Lunar Park
- Mismatch
- Right to the Edge
- Sapiens
- Robopocalypse
- The Island at the Centre of the World
- Freedom
- Another Bloody Ratbag Book
- Crooks, Chooks, and Bloody Ratbags
- Rock Springs
- The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
- Seven Eves
- The Power of Gold
- Heavy Weather
- Zero History
- The House in South Road
- Deadly Kerfuffle
- Unseen Academicals
- Grass For His Pillow
- Less
- Ghost Empire
- Overcomplicated
- Idea Man
- 2018
- A Year of Slow Food
- The Power of Meaning
- Move Fast and Break Things
- Fallen Dragon
- The Water Knife
- Deaf Sentence
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- Subscribed
- Yes Man
- The Prodigal Sun
- Past Mortem
- A Monk Swimming
- Father in a Fix
- The Dice Man
- Strata
- The Bad Mothers Revenge
- Uneasy Rider
- The Dark Side of the Sun
- A Most Damnable Invention
- Mad as Rabbits
- Drink, Smoke, Pass Out
- That Old Ace in the Hole
- Red Teaming
- The Invention of Nature
- The Lucy Family Alphabet
- Across the Nightingale Floor
- Parecon - Life After Capitalism
- Temple of the Winds
- Changing Places
- Wrecking Crew
- Interface
- Rough Trader
- 2017
- Barricade
- Sweet Miseries
- Men at Arms
- Elon Musk
- The Mammoth Hunters
- Sam Walton: Made in America
- Starship Titanic
- Medium Raw
- American Psycho
- The Riddle and the Knight
- The Road to Little Dribbling
- Neuromancer
- Wild Ride
- My Life as a Fake
- David and Goliath
- The Shepherd's Crown
- The Valley of Horses
- Whats The Odds?
- Hal Spacejock
- Not For Publication
- Moab Is My Washpot
- Clan of the Cave Bear
- Brave New World
- Hawk - Occupation Skateboarder
- Nymphomation
- Made in America
- Pasteur's Gambit
- Roger Rogerson
- Mostly Harmless
- So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- Lord of Light
- Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
- 2016
- Full Bore
- Guards! Guards!
- Idoru
- The Olive Farm
- Small Is The New Big
- Rare Books Uncovered
- A Life In Parts
- Gone Troppo
- Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- Less Than Zero
- Blood of the Fold
- Wyrd Sisters
- A Brief History of the Age of Steam
- Neither Here Nor There
- Stone of Tears
- Uriels Machine
- Pyramids
- Ready Player One
- Wizards First Rule
- The Broken Shore
- Botany of Desire
- Everyday Traders
- Sourcery
- Longitude
- Playing the Moldovans at Tennis
- Ship Breaker
- The Drawing of the Dark
- Mort
- Beyond the Chains of Illusion
- A Quantum Murder
- Talking with Kids
- All Tomorrows Parties
- Rigged
- Lost Geography
- The Cuckoo in June
- 2015
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree
- Equal Rites
- Cod
- Flood Tide
- The Flaneur
- Mindstar Rising
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- A Walk in the Woods
- Five Quarters of the Orange
- The Light Fantastic
- A Gull on the Roof
- Colour of Magic
- Prickle Farm
- The Orchid Thief
- Burning Chrome
- Not a Penny More Not a Penny Less