Douglas Adams’s ‘six part trilogy’  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an international sensation with a cult of followers. One of those followers, a young Neil Gaiman, was given complete access to Adams – his creative process, gossip, outtakes, insecurities and triumphs. The result is this celebration of all things Hitchhiker. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla.

Through poetry, dogs express their creativity and hidden motives. Musings like “I Dropped a Ball,” and “I Lose My Mind When You Leave the House,” are accompanied by portraits of their doggie laureates. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

With these tongue-in-cheek works, felines present insightful and curious poems like “Kneel Before Me,” and “Who Is That on Your Lap?” Whimsical photos of the feline authors capture their artistic temperaments. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

When she was 27, the author’s boyfriend, Aaron, was diagnosed with brain cancer. Nora and Aaron packed fifty years of marriage into the three they got, spending their time on what really matters – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, each other, and Beyoncé. Through her story, Nora gives readers permission to struggle and permission to laugh. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla, as eAudio on Overdrive/Libby, and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

After nearly two decades spent on British soil, American author Bill Bryson decided to return to the United States. Before departing, he set out on a grand farewell tour of the unparalleled floating nation that has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Tiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. You can also check out this title as eAudio on Overdrive/Libby and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

Ranging from the merely weird to the downright dangerous, dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious ‘treatments’ were once conceived by doctors and scientists, spiritualists and (literal) snake oil salesmen. Born of cluelessness, trial and error and straight-up scams, this era saw morphine prescribed for crying infants and strychnine dosed like Viagra. You can also check out this title as eAudio on Hoopla, as eBook on Hoopla, and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

What would happen if a shy introvert lived liked a gregarious extrovert for one year? With the help of various extrovert memoirs, the author sets herself a series of challenges – talk to strangers, host a dinner party, travel alone, and much, much worse – to discover just that. You can also check out this title as eAudio on Hoopla, as eBook on Hoopla, and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

The creator of the popular webcomic xkcd provides answers to his fans’ strangest questions. His responses gleefully and accurately explain everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements. You can also check out this title as eAudio on Hoopla, as eBook on Hoopla, as eAudio on Overdrive/Libby, and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

Discover “6 Things You Really Don’t Need to Take a Photo of” and improve your grammar! Along with lambasting culture crazes – “This Is How I Feel about Buying Apps” and “6 Things You Really Don’t Need to Take a Photo of” – the creator of Oatmeal comics serves up themes such as foodstuffs, holidays, email and news-of-the-day, as well as snarky yet informative pieces on grammar and usage. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla and as eBook on Overdrive/Libby.

For all of the fellow agonizers, fretters and ‘nervous wrecks’, the author dispenses dubious advice and unreliable information on life as she sees it, covering “Reward Stickers for Grown-Ups,” “The Dystopian Zodiac” and “A Map of the Introvert’s Heart” through comic drawings. You can also check out this title as eBook on Hoopla.