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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Reading Order
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams has 6 main books (1979–2009). Start with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) and read the numbered books in order.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books in order
Your reading speed
- 3 h 47 min
- 3 h 55 min
- 3 h 41 min
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- 3 h 30 min
- 4 h 32 min
- 5 h 53 min
Main books together: 1,445 pages, about 25 h 18 min at 238 words per minute.
Page counts: median across editions on Open Library. Times assume about 250 words per page. How we calculate.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: common questions
- How many books are in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series?
- There are 6 main books in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The most recent main book listed here is And Another Thing... (2009).
- What order should I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in?
- Read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in its numbered order: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and so on.
- What is the first The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book?
- The first book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, published in 1979.
- How long does it take to read the whole The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series?
- The 6 main books add up to about 1,445 pages (median edition lengths). At 238 words per minute that is about 25½ hours of reading, or about 51 days at 30 minutes a day.