Works of Douglas Adams Book Club 2026
Are you ready to curl up in your cave and read?
Your flying saucer, Wibrowserfi, has landed on the Works of Douglas Book Club page.
Book club meets every month, on the last Sunday of each month, via Zoom…a celebration of having survived the month. Here’s the recurring meeting information:
Yvette is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
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We’ll talk about life, the universe, and everything Douglas wrote, and since his works are limited, reading things written about him.
Club participation is voluntary.
Lurkers are welcome.
You’ll get the most out of your wheat germ jar if you join the meetings, share trivia, stories, and your opinion on the best and even better bits of Douglas’s books.
When you came on board Flight 121, you received an invitation to our private Facebook page: The Outside of the Asylum. Participation via Facebook is also completely optional, but each month questions will be posted there about the book up for discussion.
Curious what we’ve already read?
Check out the list for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Still have questions? Ask Wonko.
Slouch: Sunday, March 29th
Dirk Gently Comics: The Salmon of Doubt Vol. 1 & 2
Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he never had, Dirk returns to Cambridge University to seek the advice of his former tutor, the time-traveling Professor Reg Chronotis.
There he discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and his adventures have only just begun. Featuring fan-favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood.
Volume 2 collects issues #6–9.
Purchase Vol 1 From Amazon Here
Purchase Vol. 2 From Amazon Here
Slouch: Sunday, May 31st
HITCHHIKER: A Biography of Douglas Adams The First Fourth (p. ix – 111)
We’re going to read this book roughly 100 pages at a time due to its density and ours.
Don’t panic! Pack your towel, pour yourself a pan-galactic gargle blaster, and take off on a wild, no-holds-barred tour of the life and career of Douglas Adams, creator of the phenomenally successful Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Here are the facts behind the myths of one of the 20th century’s most endearing and enduring works of fantasy and humor.
Did Douglas Adams really come up with the title Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying (possibly stoned, possibly with a girl; possibly not) in a starry field in Switzerland, as he variously claimed? Who were the real-life models for Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, the lovely Trillian, and everyman Arthur Dent? And why has it taken over twenty years for the Hitchhiker’s movie to finally arrive? With a Foreword by Neil Gaiman, and a new Afterword on the making of the movie, Hitchhiker is a rich, revealing, funny chronicle; your indispensable guide to one of the most wildly creative minds of our time.
This book is currently out of print (I’m working on that), but used copies can be found from Amazon, Ebay, or your local independent bookstore.
Slouch: Sunday, June…?
HITCHHIKER: A Biography of Douglas Adams The Second Fourth (p. 112 – 221)
We’re going to read this book roughly 100 pages at a time due to its density and ours.
Don’t panic! Pack your towel, pour yourself a pan-galactic gargle blaster, and take off on a wild, no-holds-barred tour of the life and career of Douglas Adams, creator of the phenomenally successful Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Here are the facts behind the myths of one of the 20th century’s most endearing and enduring works of fantasy and humor.
Did Douglas Adams really come up with the title Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy while lying (possibly stoned, possibly with a girl; possibly not) in a starry field in Switzerland, as he variously claimed? Who were the real-life models for Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, the lovely Trillian, and everyman Arthur Dent? And why has it taken over twenty years for the Hitchhiker’s movie to finally arrive? With a Foreword by Neil Gaiman, and a new Afterword on the making of the movie, Hitchhiker is a rich, revealing, funny chronicle; your indispensable guide to one of the most wildly creative minds of our time.