Books like The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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. 

   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.

3. 

   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.

4. 

   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.

5. 

   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.

6. 

   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.

7. 

   The War of the Worlds

   H.G. Wells · 1898

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

   A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.

8. 

   The Martian Chronicles

   Ray Bradbury · 1950

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

   Linked stories trace failed Mars landings, crowded American towns on Mars, and nuclear war on Earth to one last family.

9. 

   Stranger in a Strange Land

   Robert A. Heinlein · 1961

   Because shares tags: science fiction, classics.

   A Mars-raised man lands on Earth, learns religion and love, and founds a church that shocks everyone.

10. 

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson · 1992

    Because shares tags: science fiction, satire.

    A hacker and a teenage courier cross a fractured America and its virtual Metaverse to stop a virus that infects minds and machines.

11. 

    Oryx and Crake

    Margaret Atwood · 2003 · MaddAddam #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, satire.

    Snowman lives alone after the plague with Crake's green-eyed Children, remembering Jimmy, Crake and Oryx.

12. 

    Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift · 1726

    Because shares tags: classics, satire.

    A ship's surgeon meets tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, Laputa's projectors, and rational horses in Swift's 1726 satire.

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