r/Vonnegut • u/the_tonez • 18h ago

I read all Kurt Vonnegut’s novel in chronological order; here are my thoughts.

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Books are ordered within ranks too (mostly).

The lower ranks are not bad books by any means, I’m just comparing them to my experience with the top tier ones

Edit: I forgot God Bless You Mr Rosewater! That would be first in B tier

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r/Vonnegut • u/FunkAgent • 5h ago

Absolute vodka circa 1972

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r/Vonnegut • u/claroquesearight • 12h ago

The Sirens of Titan Spotted at Austin's Central Library

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was a 20th-century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.

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Novels

Player Piano (1952)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Mother Night (1961)
Cat's Cradle (1963)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine (1965)
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (1976)
Jailbird (1979)
Deadeye Dick (1982)
Galápagos: A Novel (1985
Bluebeard (1987)
Hocus Pocus (1990)
Timequake (1997)

Short Fiction Collections

Canary in a Cathouse (1961)
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999)
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
Armageddon in Retrospect and Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace (2008)
Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction (2009)
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction (2011)

Non-Fiction Collections

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions) (1974)
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (1981)
Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays (1984)
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage (1991)
A Man Without a Country (2005)

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Penelope (1960)
The Very First Christmas Morning (1962)
Fortitude (1968)
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
Requiem (1987)
Make Up Your Mind (1993)
Miss Temptation (1993)
L'Histoire du Soldat (1993)