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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books in order

The 6 books of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in series order, with the median page count of each across English print editions. The 5 books with page data add up to about 1,086 pages.

Books in order
6
numbered on Wikidata
Total pages
1,086
sum of medians, 5 books
Reading time
19h
at average speed
  1. 1
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    1984 · 25 editions
    215 pages
    3 h 47 min
  2. 2
    The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
    1980 · 18 editions
    225 pages
    3 h 58 min
  3. 3
    Life, the Universe and Everything
    1999 · 14 editions
    216 pages
    3 h 48 min
  4. 4
    So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    1984 · 14 editions
    196 pages
    3 h 27 min
  5. 5
    Mostly Harmless
    1992 · 8 editions
    235 pages
    4 h 09 min
  6. 6
    And Another Thing...
    2009 · too few editions with page counts to show a figure
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Pages per book, in series order

Median page count across English print editions.

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy2152. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe2253. Life, the Universe and Everything2154. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish1955. Mostly Harmless235
1. The Hitchhiker's …2152. The Restaurant at…2253. Life, the Univers…2154. So Long, and Than…1955. Mostly Harmless235
Open Library edition records; order from Wikidata series numbers.

How long to read the whole series?

Based on 1,086 pages for the 5 books with page data.

Reading time
19 h 09 min
At 30 min a day
39 days
At 1 hour a day
20 days
Order follows the series number recorded on Wikidata. Novellas numbered with decimals (for example 2.5) sit between the main books.

Data: Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors); Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).