Shelfology Book Pairing

The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity. Reprint. Movie tie-in.
Published 2007
ISBN 9780307476319
Genre Fiction
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Just before the Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect from the planet Betelgeuse and begins his hitch-hiking misadventures throughout the universe.
Published 1981
ISBN 9780671461492
Genre comic science fiction