If the way Susan outwits the Auditors with chocolate and straight-faced snark, or Death’s wry asides while the universe teeters, made you grin, you’ll love the gleefully absurd universe of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams pairs big, brainy questions—about life, the universe, and everything—with impeccably dry humor, much like the History Monks’ wisecracks while tweaking reality’s gears.

You enjoyed watching Lu-Tze and Lobsang sprint through causality—dodging paradoxes, tinkering with procrastinators, and racing the glass clock. In To Say Nothing of the Dog, Oxford’s time-traveling historians blunder through Victorian England on a mission where one misplaced object could shatter history. It’s the same breezy chaos of timelines needing a gentle nudge, handled with charm and razor-sharp comic timing.

If the metaphysical puzzles—Auditors trying to lock time into a perfectly ticking universe, the moral weight of Susan’s choices, Lu-Tze’s koan-like logic—hooked you, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August dives deep into the ethics of time. Harry relives his life repeatedly and must decide how to act when another chronically reborn rival tries to rewrite history, echoing the tough, thoughtful dilemmas that drove the race to stop the glass clock.

If Lu-Tze’s ‘simple Sweeper’ wisdom guiding Lobsang through impossible problems delighted you, Bridge of Birds offers a kindred duo: the brilliant, disreputable Master Li (who has ‘a slight flaw in his character’) and earnest Number Ten Ox. Their quest is full of clever riddles, sideways solutions, and heart—like sneaking enlightenment past the universe with a broom and a grin.

If the Auditors’ officious meddling in reality, the clockmakers, and the History Monks’ paperwork-meets-cosmos vibe amused you, The Eyre Affair turns that into a romp. Literary detective Thursday Next works for a department that literally regulates fiction, chasing a villain who leaps into books—much like Susan patrolling the fabric of reality with a poker and a lesson plan.