Kurt Vonnegut

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1952
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • Player Piano // Utopia 14

    Here is a gripping story of one man's rebellion against a terrifying world of tomorrow--a machine-ruled America that threatens to make man obsolete. In the great tradition of "Brave New World" and "1984" Kurt Vonnegut uses a strange and marvelous ...

  • The Sirens of Titan

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    “[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.” -- EsquireNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThe Sirens of T...

  • Mother Night

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    In Mother Night Vonnegut makes fun of sex, sin, and motherhood; of war and peace, of the FBI and Communists; and the Nazis, too. And no one but Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., could have created Howard Campbell, Jr., the American who became a notorious Nazi and ...

  • 2BR02B

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    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). He was al...

  • Cat's Cradle

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    CAT'S CRADLE is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modem 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 ...

  • Slaughterhouse-Five

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    SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afra...

  • Welcome to the Monkey House

    “[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.” -- The Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut...

  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: Or, Pearls Before Swine

    “[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewEliot Rosewater -- drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation -- is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a lit...

  • Happy Birthday, Wanda June

    In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his tragicomical imagination. When the great hunter Harold Ryan--missing and presumed dead--returns from Africa after eight years, his wife is aghast and his son is enchanted. Vo...



  • Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye, Blue Monday

    Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex...

  • Slapstick or Lonesome No More

    Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as...

  • Jailbird

    • / General Fiction
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    “[Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target. . . . Nothing is spared.” -- PeopleJailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government -- and in the heart. This wry tale foll...

  • Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

    Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, witty, deeply felt colle...

  • Palm Sunday

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    “[Kurt Vonnegut] is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer.” -- Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his fa...

  • Deadeye Dick

    WATCH OUT FOR LIFE. IT'LL GET YA! In the euphoria of colossal innocence, he shot a bullet in the air. By the time it fell to earth, twelve-year-old Rudy Waltz was condemned as a double murderer, committed to care for his ruined parents -- his mother,...

  • Galapagos

    “A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewGalápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journe...

  • Who Am I This Time?

  • Bluebeard

    At 71, Rabo Karabekian no longer paints. He wants only to be left alone. But now Circe Berman, a young widow, has invaded his Long Island estate, bullied him into writing his autobiography, and is trying to discover the secret locked in his barn. Blu...

  • Hocus Pocus

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Slaughterhouse-Five comes an irresistible novel that combines “clever wit with keen social observation...[and] re-establishes Mr. Vonnegut’s place as the Mark Twain of our tim...



  • Canary in a Cat House

  • Timequake

    At 2:27 P.M. on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point?...

  • God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

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    From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between...

  • Bagombo Snuff Box

    For this unusual collection, Kurt Vonnegut has selected 24 of his favourite stories never published before in book form. Included are "Any Reasonable Offer", "The Powder Blue Dragon", "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp" and "Lovers Anonymous"....

  • Armageddon in Retrospect

    The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five -- a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly h...

  • Hello, Red

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • Confido

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • FUBAR

     The waters of renewal sometimes course through the unlikeliest of settings. In the short story, “FUBAR,” we’re taken to a desolate building in a drab industrial complex, where a lonely office worker gains a fresh perspective on life t...

  • The Good Explainer

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • The Honor of a Newsboy

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...



  • King and Queen of the Universe

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • Little Drops of Water

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • Look at the Birdie

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • Nice Little People

     Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his co...

  • The Petrified Ants

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • Shout about It from the Housetops

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • A Song for Selma

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • Ed Luby's Key Club

    Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic vo...

  • While Mortals Sleep

    Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers -- including Dave Eggers, author of this volume's Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut's originality infuses a unique...

  • Kurt Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 1963-1973

    Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original,...



  • We Are All What We Pretend to Be

    Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his ...

  • Sucker's Portfolio

    Available to readers for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories...

  • If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

    Best known as one of our most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. He himself never graduated college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the deli...

  • Building the Monkey House: At Kurt Vonnegut's Writing Table

    Since its original publication in 1968, "Welcome to the Monkey House" has been one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved works. This special edition celebrates a true master of the short-story form by including multiple variant drafts of what would event...

  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    The Schwartz family, headed by 172-year-old Harold ("Gramps"), lives in a three-room New York City apartment located in what once was southern Connecticut. Gramps' grandson Louis, his wife Emerald, and 22 other descendants are crowded into the space,...

  • Sinbad

    I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it h...

  • Slice of Life

    The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse, when she saw a sign on the door - a crude sign in pencil, on a ...

  • Sun Moon Star

    The only children’s book by the author of Slaughterhouse-Five “spins the Nativity tale in a cerebral, humanist direction” (The New York Times Book Review).  Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus -- as told by Kurt Vonnegut....

  • The Ultimate Frankenstein

    Based on the original motion picture Frankenstein, some of the best-known authors of the fantastic and the mysterious explore the legend of Mary Shelley’s classic monster. From Brian Aldiss’s eerie look at a mysterious creature hidden fo...

  • Complete Stories

    "Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century''s foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut''s output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all togeth...



  • Slaughterhouse 5

    50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.F...

  • Between Time and Timbuktu, Or, Prometheus-5

    An experimental television play composed of excerpts from his novels and stories, Between Time and Timbuktu features Kurt Vonnegut’s special blend of scientific expertise, wit, and penetrating comment. “Most unusual, ultra imaginat...

  • Cowboy Defender (Mystery)

    Cowboy Defender is a gripping mystery set against the rugged backdrop of the American West, where dusty trails and wide-open plains conceal secrets as deep as the canyons. The story follows a hardened cowboy-a lone defender of justice in a land where...

  • The Big Trip Up Yonder

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    The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is made from mud and dandelions and is thus inexpensive and widely available. Anti-Gerasone halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kurt Vonnegut has published 53 books.

Kurt Vonnegut does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Cowboy Defender (Mystery), was published in December 2024.

The first book by Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano // Utopia 14, was published in August 1952.

No. Kurt Vonnegut does not write books in series.
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