Our list of some of the best Vonnegut books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Slaughter-House Five (1971)
- Cat’s Cradle: A Novel (1998)
- Breakfast Champions (1974)
- Player Piano (1976)
- Bluebeard: A Novel (Delta Fiction) (1998)
- Welcome to the Monkey House (1979) (1979)
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel (1998)
- Galapagos (1997)
- The Sirens of Titan: A Novel (1998)
- Mother Night (1999)
- Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) (1976)
Slaughter-House Five (1971)
American Literature
Cat’s Cradle: A Novel (1998)
Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
Breakfast Champions (1974)
Paperback Publisher: Delta; Reissue edition (March 15, 1974) Language: English ISBN-10: 0385283644 ISBN-13: 978-0385283649 Package Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars 660 customer reviews Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,730,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #210171 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction Would you like to tell us about a lower price?
Player Piano (1976)
Player Piano, author Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, was published in 1952. It is a dystopia of automation, describing the dereliction it causes in the quality of life. The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers.
Bluebeard: A Novel (Delta Fiction) (1998)
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn.
Welcome to the Monkey House (1979) (1979)
Excellent Book
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel (1998)
Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.
Galapagos (1997)
Kurt Vonnegut's 11th novel Galalpagos was released in 1985. In one of Vonnegut's most peculiar and provocative works, Vonnegut's Galapagos takes an existential philosophical look at the human brain and its relevance from a Darwinian evolutionary standpoint.
The Sirens of Titan: A Novel (1998)
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there’ s a catch to the invitation–and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell.
Mother Night (1999)
Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.
Wampeters Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) (1976)
The bestselling author of Hocus Pocus offers a rare glimpse into his magic world, as he presents this indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply-felt collection of his reviews, essays, and speeches. “Vonnegut at his unnerving best.”–Providence Bulletin. Reissue. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Best Vonnegut Books That Will Hook You
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Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So
Author(s): Andrew John Hicks
ID: 2976974, Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five
Author(s): Tom Roston
ID: 3248869, Publisher: Abrams Books, Year: 2021, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Love Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut
ID: 2833800, Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, Year: 2020, Size: 332 Mb, Format: epub
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