Best Kurt Vonnegut Novels - April 2024

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar 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 fear most.

• ASIN: 0385333846
• ASIN: 0385333846
• ISBN: 0812988523
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut: The Complete Novels: A Library of America Boxed Set

The ultimate Vonnegut: all 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector's boxed set.The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation a remain among the most enduringly popular and influential works of the last century. Now, for the first time, they are available in a single collector's edition, featuring authoritative annotated texts. This boxed set includes four Library of America volumes: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night Novels & Stories 1963-1973 Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five /... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598535099
• ASIN: 1598535099
• ISBN: 1598535099
• Brand: Sidney Offit
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)

“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 journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’ s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.Praise for Galápagos“The be... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385333870
• ASIN: 0385333870
• ISBN: 0385333870
• Brand: Kurt Vonnegut
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Cat's Cradle: A Novel

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times 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. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat’s Cradle is one of the twentieth century’s most important works—and Vonnegut at his very best.“[Vonnegut is]... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038533348X
• ASIN: 038533348X
• ISBN: 038533348X
• Brand: Penguin Random House
• Manufacturer: Dell Publishing

Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1987-1997 (LOA #273): Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)

The definitive edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction concludes with three brilliantly satirical novels of the 1980s and ’90s collected in one volume for the first time. Here are the final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Viet... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598534645
• ASIN: 1598534645
• ISBN: 1598534645
• Brand: LIBRARY OF AMER
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions / Stories (Library of America, No. 216)

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, so finely calibrated, and so profound an articulation of the Sixties' spirit that many critics overlooked the moral seriousness behind the standup-comic craftsmanship. Capturing Vonnegut in pyrotechnic mid-career, this first volume of a projected three-volume edition gathers four of his most acclaimed novels. Cat's Cradle (1963) is a comedy of the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598530984
• ASIN: 1598530984
• ISBN: 1598530984
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Bluebeard: A Novel (Delta Fiction)

“Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and ConstitutionBroad 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. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.Praise for Bluebeard“Vonnegut is at his edifying... [Read More]

• ASIN: 038533351X
• ASIN: 038533351X
• ISBN: 038533351X
• Brand: Dial Press
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (LOA #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / stories (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)

Before winning international fame with Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. The Sirens of Titan (1959), the interplanetary adventures of the world’s wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American dou... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598531506
• ASIN: 1598531506
• ISBN: 1598531506
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Player Piano: A Novel

“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco ChronicleKurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.Praise for Player Piano“An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His blac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385333781
• ASIN: 0385333781
• ISBN: 0385333781
• Brand: Dial Press
• Manufacturer: The Dial Press

Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York TimesIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.“Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly

• ASIN: 0385334206
• ASIN: 0385334206
• ISBN: 0385334206
• Brand: Dial Press Trade Paperback
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

The Sirens of Titan: A Novel

“[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 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 t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385333498
• ASIN: 0385333498
• ISBN: 0385333498
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Jailbird: A Novel

“[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 follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate’s least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of the mighty, giving a razor-sharp edge to an unforgettable portrait of power and politics in our times.P... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385333900
• ASIN: 0385333900
• ISBN: 0385333900
• Brand: Dial Press
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Deadeye Dick: A Novel

“The master at his quirky, provocative best.”—CosmopolitanDeadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are.Praise for Deadeye Dick“A moving fable . . . Vonnegut, sweet cynic and ugly duckling, conti... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385334176
• ASIN: 0385334176
• ISBN: 0385334176
• Brand: Dial Press
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut: Three Complete Novels: Cat's Cradle; God Bless You Mr. Rosewater; Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut: Three Complete Novels: Cat's Cradle; God Bless You Mr. Rosewater; Breakfast of Champions.

• ASIN: 051712436X
• ASIN: 051712436X
• ISBN: 051712436X
• Manufacturer: Wings Books

Mother Night

“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—TimeMother 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.“A great artist.”—Cincinnati Enquirer “A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . . Reading Vonnegut is addic... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385334141
• ASIN: 0385334141
• ISBN: 0385334141
• Brand: Dial Press
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut: The Complete Novels : A Library of America Boxed Set

The ultimate Vonnegut: all 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector's boxed set. The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation a remain among the most enduringly

• UPC: 53692530
• Rating: 4.667

Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973 (LOA #216) : Cat's Cradle / Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions

Presents a collection of four novels, four short stories, and other writings, including a speech and

• UPC: 15209262
• Rating: 5.0

2br02b by Kurt Vonnegut, Science Fiction, Literary

The title is pronounced "2 B R naught 2 B," referencing the famous phrase "to be, or not to be" from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this story, the title refers to the

• UPC: 53038410
• Rating: 4.25

So It Goes : A Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was a man who pushed his imagination off a cliff and followed it for the whole drop; a man who was able to write the most cynical material, yet make you die of

• UPC: 53405967
• Rating: 5.0

2br02b by Kurt Vonnegut, Science Fiction, Literary

"From Worlds of it, January 192"--T.p.

• UPC: 20860272
• Rating: 4.25

Slaughterhouse-Five : A Novel

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal

• UPC: 460729
• Rating: 3.934

Cat's Cradle : A Novel

A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic

• UPC: 460720
• Rating: 4.048

The Vonnegut Encyclopedia : Revised and updated edition

"The authorized, updated, and comprehensive catalogue of characters, themes, phrasing, and imagery found in Kurt Vonnegut's beloved work. Vonnegut's five decades of writing yielded many worlds-worth of people, places, and things. This book is an

• UPC: 47324687
• Rating: 3.0

The Sirens of Titan : A Novel

Originally published: New York: Delacorte Press,

• UPC: 460721
• Rating: 4.15

Bluebeard : A Novel

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian--first introduced in Breakfast of Champions--who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he

• UPC: 460723
• Rating: 3.813

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Slaughter House Five (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Kurt Vonnegut Paperback

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