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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was an American writer celebrated for his blend of science fiction and satire, and he was also a sharp leftist thinker. A soldier in World War II, he became a POW and earned a Purple Heart for what he humorously referred to as “frostbite.” Vonnegut graded his own works, awarding Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five an A+, while giving A’s to The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and Jailbird. Conversely, he rated Happy Birthday, Wanda June and Slapstick with D’s. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1952. Below is a chronological list of Kurt Vonnegut’s books as they were originally released:

Kurt Vonnegut became a published novelist in 1950 with the novel Report on the Barnhouse Effect. Below is a list of Kurt Vonnegut's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Delta Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Galápagos (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Bluebeard (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Player Piano /Utopia 14 (1952) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Sirens of Titan (1959) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Cat's Cradle (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Mother Night (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Breakfast of Champions (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! (1976) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Jailbird (1979) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Deadeye Dick (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hocus Pocus (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Timequake (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Report on the Barnhouse Effect (1950) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Unready to Wear (1953) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Big Trip Up Yonder (1954) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
2 B R 0 2 B (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets (1970) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Honor of a Newsboy (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Confido (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hall of Mirrors (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Song for Selma (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Hello, Red (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Good Explainer (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
King and Queen of the Universe (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Little Drops of Water (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Nice Little People (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Ed Luby's Key Club (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Shout about It from the Housetops (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
FUBAR (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Basic Training (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut (With: Richard Lingeman) (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Slice of Life (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Canary in a Cat House (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
2BR02B (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Look at the Birdie (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
While Mortals Sleep (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sucker's Portfolio (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Sinbad (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Palm Sunday (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Like Shaking Hands with God (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Kurt Vonnegut on Mark Twain, Lincoln, Imperialist Wars and the Weather (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A Man Without a Country (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Letters (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
We Are What We Pretend To Be (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
If This Isn't Nice What Is? (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Pity the Reader (2019) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Biographies & Memoirs Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Fates Worse Than Death (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Plays Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Welcome to the Monkey House (With: Christopher Sergel) (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Children's Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Sun, Moon, Star (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Slaughter-House Five Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of The Last Interview Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (By: Jacques Derrida) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Kurt Vonnegut (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
ABC of Science Fiction (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Best SF Vol 7 (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Masks (1971) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age (1978) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Space Odyssey (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
A World of Fiction (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Flying Sorcerers (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Wizards of Odd (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Playboy Book of Science Fiction (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Writers on Writing (2001) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth (2002) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Slaughterhouse-Five: Critical Insights (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Science Fiction Collection 002 (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories (2015) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Grave Predictions (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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