Science fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The best books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are The Demon-Haunted World, Cosmos, and Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is about absurdism, meaning and meaninglessness, bureaucracy. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Demon-Haunted World
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Carl Sagan · Science
The Demon-Haunted World is Carl Sagan's argument that science is not just a body of knowledge but a way of thinking — one that humanity needs badly and uses far too rarely.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Cosmos
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Carl Sagan · Science
Cosmos is Carl Sagan's attempt to tell the full story of the universe and humanity's place in it — from the Big Bang to the origins of life to the rise of science as a way of knowing.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan · Science
Pale Blue Dot takes its title from a photograph taken by Voyager 1 in 1990, as it left the solar system, at Sagan's request.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman · Memoir
Surely You're Joking, Mr.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway · Memoir
A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's posthumously published account of his years in Paris during the 1920s, when he and his first wife Hadley lived cheaply in Montparnasse while he apprenticed himself to the work of becoming a writer.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Brave New Work
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Aaron Dignan · Business
Brave New Work is Aaron Dignan's diagnosis of why most organizations are dysfunctional and a practical guide to building something better.
Both dig into bureaucracy.
Read the summary → - Just Kids
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Patti Smith · Memoir
Just Kids is Patti Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir of her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from their first meeting in New York in 1967 through their years of shared poverty, artistic development, and eventual celebrity, to Mapplethorpe's death from AIDS in 1989.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Lab Girl
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Hope Jahren · Memoir
Lab Girl is Hope Jahren's memoir of becoming a scientist, told alongside a parallel account of plant biology that is one of the most original structural decisions in recent nonfiction.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Letters from a Stoic
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Seneca · Philosophy
Letters from a Stoic collects a selection of 124 letters that Seneca wrote to his friend Lucilius in the final years of his life, around 65 AD.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Life
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Keith Richards · Memoir
Keith Richards's Life was written with journalist James Fox and published when Richards was 66, after more than fifty years with the Rolling Stones.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Nicomachean Ethics
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Aristotle · Philosophy
The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's systematic inquiry into what makes a human life go well.
Both dig into friendship.
Read the summary → - Of Mice and Men
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John Steinbeck · Literary fiction
Of Mice and Men is a short novel — really a novella — published in 1937, two years before The Grapes of Wrath, and it covers much of the same Depression-era California ground in concentrated form.
Both dig into friendship.
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Books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: quick answers
What are the best books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The best books like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams are The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, such as absurdism, meaning and meaninglessness, bureaucracy.
What should I read after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
A natural next read after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. A kindred science fiction read. Other strong choices are Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman.
What books are similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy centers on absurdism, meaning and meaninglessness, bureaucracy. Books with a similar feel include The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
