Other than Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut is my all-time favorite author. He had a knack for saying things that nobody else could, or finding better ways to say things that everyone was already saying. His imagination was as close to bottomless as I’ve ever seen. He was able to write scathing indictments of norms and behaviors and thoughts all while telling stories. Vonnegut rarely had to come right out and say anything–we got his point simply by reading the stories and drawing the only possible conclusions from them.
He was a gifted writer, a wonderful human, and if there is a heaven, I hope he is there and I’ll get to meet him one day. Below is a bibliography of Mr. Vonnegut’s books. There are still some unpublished writings out there that continue to trickle out, so we may not hit the end for a while yet.
Novels by Kurt Vonnegut
1. Player Piano
2. The Sirens of Titan
3. Mother Night
4. Cat’s Cradle
5. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
7. Breakfast of Champions
8. Slapstick
9. Jailbird
10. Deadeye Dick
11. Galapagos
12. Bluebeard
13. Hocus Pocus
14. Timequake
Story Collections and essays
1. Canary In a Cathouse
2. Harrison Bergeron
3. Welcome To The Monkey House
4. Wampeters, Foma, and Granfaloons
5. Palm Sunday
6. Nothing is Lost Save Honor
7. Fates Worse Than Death
8. Bagombo Snuff Box
9. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
10. A Man Without A Country
11. Armageddon In Retrospect
12. Look At The Birdie
13. While Mortals Sleep (This one will apparently be coming out in 2011 and will be fiction)
We all have our favorite Vonnegut books. I have read all of the books on this list at least twice. It is often on the rereadings that I truly figure out which are my favorites. And as my own circumstances change, my own opinions change, and the books change as well.
I’ve never found another author whose books deserve to be reread the way Kurt’s books do. I miss the man and the thought that one day we’ll have nothing new, even posthumously, makes me sad. But I’m thrilled that he was able to write as much as he was.
Josh
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Is this a list of Vonnegut’s books published in order?
Nope the list is correct but not as published in order
Thanks Dredlo.
I don’t know if you knew this from your post, “…and if there is a heaven, I hope he is there and I’ll get to meet him one day.”
Kurt Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed atheist. Maybe you meant it as ironical. Who knows?
Merry Christmas. or Winter Solstice, which ever you celebrate.
Let’s substitute afterlife. If there’s a heaven/afterlife, Vonnegut being a self-proclaimed atheist wouldn’t get him out of it, so maybe I’d get to meet him anyway.
Same to you.
Does anyone have a list or know of any audio books available that are read by Kurt Vonnegut himself?
read a short story collection years ago and cant find it, although i have been looking for years.one of the stories is about what happens to the human race after aliens try to help us and ends with the earth almost totally destroyed.another is about a man who is too busy to take care of his body so he puts it in a closet and only takes it out for maintenance.could you tell me which book these stories are in?
Trying to find the name of a very early (50′s?) SF novel by an author whose last name starts with “Von” (not Vonnegut) where
people use “cerebral-cortical pause” to organize thinking.
Hero finds he can mentally teleport self to “memorized” target locations he has seen; and later makes mental contact with a still-aware space ship that brought humans to this galaxy long ago. This was published about the time that Scientology’s basis was published.
I’ll see what I can find, Fran.
Trying to find the name of Vonnegut Novel/short story: where if you are prettier than other people you have to wear a mask, if you are smarter than other people you take a pill to lower your IQ.
Does this sound familiar?
Hi Lana, it’s called Harrison Bergeron.
Hi Josh, I thank you very much.