Douglas Adams Books In Order
Book links take you to Amazon. As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases.Publication Order of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Books
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Life, the Universe and Everything | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mostly Harmless | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
And Another Thing... | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dirk Gently Books
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Salmon of Doubt | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Doctor Who Cross Cult Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Meaning of Liff | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Chance to See | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Deeper Meaning of Liff | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Doctor Who: Target Collection Books
Doctor Who and The Pirate Planet | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Invasion | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Day of the Doctor | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rose | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Resurrection of the Daleks | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revelation of the Daleks | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crimson Horror | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dalek | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witchfinders | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giggle | (2024) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Doctor Who Novelizations Books
The Time of Angels | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Daleks / Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Zarbi | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Crusaders | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Massacre | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Daemons | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Cybermen | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Giant Robot | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Green Death | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Three Doctors | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Web of Fear | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Space War | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Face of Evil | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Mutants | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Ark in Space | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Time Warrior | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death to the Daleks | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Android Invasion | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the War Games | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Robots of Death | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Underworld | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Enemy of the World | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the State of Decay | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Visitation | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Full Circle | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and theSunmakers | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Logopolis | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meglos | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four to Doomsday | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time-Flight | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terminus | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Castrovalva | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Arc of Infinity | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mawdryn Undead | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Earthshock | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Five Doctors | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kinda | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snakedance | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Aztecs | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dominators | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enlightenment | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inferno | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Warriors of the Deep | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Highlanders | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Frontios | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Galaxy Four | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Gunfighters | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Monster | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Krotons | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Planet of Fire | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mind of Evil | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Caves of Androzani | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Myth Makers | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Marco Polo | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Invasion | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cybermen - The Invasion | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Awakening | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Two Doctors | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Timelash | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Faceless Ones | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seeds of Death | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ark | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Savages | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Orchid | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Twin Dilemma | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mark of the Rani | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Celestial Toymaker | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The King's Demons | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fury from the Deep | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mind Robber | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rescue | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Reign of Terror | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rescue | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Meddler | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ambassadors of Death | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Space Museum | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sensorites | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Romans | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mysterious Planet | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Time and the Rani | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Macra Terror | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terror of the Vervoids | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Underwater Menace | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wheel in Space | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Edge of Destruction | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Smugglers | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Vengeance on Varos | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ultimate Foe | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Delta and the Bannermen | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dalek's Master Plan: The Mutation of Time | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paradise Towers | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The War Machines | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Attack of the Cybermen | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dragonfire | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chase | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mindwarp | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silver Nemesis | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Planet of Giants | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Happiness Patrol | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Space Pirates | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remembrance of the Daleks | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Survival | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Light | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Curse of Fenric | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Battlefield | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pescatons | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Power of the Daleks | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The TV Movie / The Novel of the Film | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Eleventh Hour | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
City of Death | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Invasion | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rose | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Resurrection of the Daleks | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crimson Horror | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dalek | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witchfinders | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fires of Pompeii | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Doctor Who: Shada | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Time Traveler's Almanac | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Highly regarded during his time, British author Douglas Adams left behind a powerful legacy with his witty and extremely incisive brand of irreverent science-fiction. With both intelligence and creativity, he was to create a universe that would shed light on some of the greatest philosophical questions known to mankind. This is something that has not only been seen in print, but also within a variety of different mediums, such as radio, film, video-games and television.
Early and Personal Life
Born in 1952 on the 11th of March, Douglas Adams was brought up in East London after his family moved there from Cambridge. Shortly afterwards his sister, Susan, was born three years later followed by the divorce of their parents in 1957, as his mother then went to live in an RSPCA shelter in Brentwood with his grandparents. Douglas himself attended Brentwood School after passing their entrance exam before going onto learn at the prestigious Cambridge University where he graduated with a B.A. in English literature.
With an interest in writing formed at an early age, he was remembered for his creative work even as a child where he was regularly marked highly for his stories. This would lead him to write later on at great volume, giving him the encouragement he required as and when he needed it. Holding a strong interest in comedy, he took part in the highly exclusive ‘Cambridge Footlights’ after gaining an invitation to take part in their famously selective group. That then led to him developing his talents over time as he managed to create the unique and distinctive voice that his readers would come to appreciate him for. As some of his writing was published during his school days, he was already well prepared for what was to follow.
Writing Career
Originally wanting to make his break in radio and television, Douglas Adams headed to London with the hopes of getting his start there. That was when he met Graham Chapman from the legendary Monty Python, who gave him a role as a writer on the show, giving him an opportunity that had only been offered to one other being Neil Innes. Here he wrote a sketch for the show, as well as starring in it briefly, thus giving him his head-start within the industry.
Later they both worked briefly together on the comedy sketch-show ‘Out of the Trees’, but this didn’t get past the first TV pilot and was thought to then be wiped for a period of time until it resurfaced years later. After this Adams had to make ends meet through a series of low paid jobs, including hospital porter, builder and bodyguard. During this time he had a number of experiences that helped inform his later work, developing it even further. All the while he continued to write sketches and comedy as he carried on creating what was to be his unique voice.
After that he eventually got his next big opportunity when he wrote and performed to good review at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, followed by a period where he worked once again with Chapman. He soon got a chance to work in radio creating his infamous ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ show which he was to become famous for. Subsequently made a producer, then a script editor, he also worked on the show ‘Doctor Who’, writing a few episodes for that too. Soon writing the series of books derived from the show, he went onto create Dirk Gently in 1987, thus making his name and fulfilling his legacy as one of the most idiosyncratic voices within science-fiction to date.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
This was the series that would make his name creating a unique and distinctive look at the world that’s been unrivalled since. Famously starting out as a radio series that brought the medium forwards with its pioneering use of sound technology, it was soon adapted into this book. Later that was followed by a much beloved cult television series and, most recently, a Hollywood movie featuring Martin Freeman as its chief protagonist Arthur Dent.
Whilst the narrative has transformed a number of times across its many different mediums, it’s principal core plot remains ostensibly the same. Focusing on the journey of one Arthur Dent, it charts his travels after unwittingly getting his house bulldozed down by the council to make way for a bypass. Unbeknownst to the rest of humanity though is that, at that precise moment in time, the earth is also scheduled for demolition by a fleet of alien Vogons who aim to build their own intergalactic bypass. It quickly transpires that he’s befriended an alien himself over the years in the form of Ford Prefect, an intergalactic traveller writing for the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ guidebook. They both then escape aboard the Vogon spacecraft just in time, as the earth is subsequently destroyed along with humanity, thus leaving Arthur as the sole human (or so he initially believes). What then occurs are a series of events that take them all across the universe, charted over a collection of highly influential novels that Adams wrote for the duration of his life.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
An underrated series that followed in the wake of the aforementioned Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Warm and humorous, it provided a smaller scaled counterpart to his other more epically scaled work. Also made into a television series of its own, it’s gained its own following over the years thanks to its witty observations and insightful characters.
Using a fragmented narrative device, the novel focuses on time travel as Dirk Gently solves mysteries of the inexplicable kind. Charting the evolution of humanity from the alien Salaxalans who populated the earth in ancient times, right up to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it’s expansive plot stretches across the entire progress of the human race. Within all this though is Dirk Gently who must piece together the case at hand, which begins with a seemingly innocuous magic trick performed at the Coleridge charity dinner he attends at his old college. Making a vase disappear might not be just a simple trick though as Dirk Gently traces it back through the wormhole into a world mystery and intrigue answering questions about the very nature of existence itself along the way.
Book Series In Order » Authors »