Books like Life, the Universe and Everything

1. 

   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

   Douglas Adams · 1979 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1

   Because same series (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1); also by Douglas Adams; shares tags: science fiction, comedy, satire.

   Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide retold: Earth's end, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin, and the answer 42.

2. 

   The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

   Douglas Adams · 1980 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #2

   Because same series (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #2); also by Douglas Adams; shares tags: science fiction, comedy, satire.

   Arthur Dent flees Vogons, dines at Milliways at the end of time, and strands on prehistoric Earth in Adams' sharp 1980 sequel.

3. 

   Breakfast of Champions

   Kurt Vonnegut · 1973

   Because shares tags: satire, classics, science fiction.

   A Pontiac dealer breaks down while a broke sci-fi writer brings the book that tells him others are robots.

4. 

   A Confederacy of Dunces

   John Kennedy Toole · 1980

   Because shares tags: classics, comedy, satire.

   Ignatius J. Reilly, jobless and full of opinions in New Orleans, meets work, his mother, and the law in Toole's posthumous Pulitzer winner.

5. 

   The Importance of Being Earnest

   Oscar Wilde · 1895

   Because shares tags: classics, comedy, satire.

   Jack and Algernon invent Ernest to court Gwendolen and Cecily until fiction collapses.

6. 

   Slaughterhouse-Five

   Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

   Because shares tags: classics, science fiction, satire.

   Billy Pilgrim slips through time from Dresden to Tralfamadore in Vonnegut's short antiwar classic.

7. 

   Ender's Game

   Orson Scott Card · 1985 · Ender Saga #1

   Because shares tags: science fiction, space, classics.

   Ender Wiggin trains at Battle School to fight the Formics, winning games that turn out to be real.

8. 

   Brave New World

   Aldous Huxley · 1932

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics, satire.

   Huxley's Brave New World retold: hatcheries, soma, Bernard and Lenina, John the Savage, and the lighthouse.

9. 

   Starship Troopers

   Robert A. Heinlein · 1959

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

   Rico earns citizenship through Mobile Infantry drops against Bugs.

10. 

    Mort

    Terry Pratchett · 1987 · Discworld #4

    Because shares tags: comedy, satire.

    Death hires apprentice Mort in this 1987 Discworld comedy, where a spared princess splits reality and duty bends for love, with no…

11. 

    Kindred

    Octavia E. Butler · 1979

    Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

    Dana pulled from 1976 to slave Maryland must save Rufus who owns her kin.

12. 

    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Jules Verne · 1870

    Because shares tags: classics, science fiction.

    A monster hunt finds Nemo submarine, and three captives tour seas they cannot leave.

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