Author:Kurt Vonnegut
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Works
Novels
- Player Piano (1952)
- Sirens of Titan (1959)
- Mother Night (1962)
- Cat's Cradle (1963)
- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1966)
- Breakfast of Champions (1973)
- Slapstick (1976)
- Jailbird (1979)
- Deadeye Dick (1982)
- Galapagos (1985)
- Bluebeard (1987)
- Hocus Pocus (1990)
- Timequake (1997)
Collections
- Canary in a Cat House (1961, short stories)
- Welcome to the Monkey House (1968, short stories)
- Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) (1974, non-fiction)
- Palm Sunday (1981, non-fiction)
- Fates Worse Than Death (1991, non-fiction)
- Bagombo Snuff Box (1999, short stories)
- God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999, transcription of short radio dramas)
- A Man Without a Country (2005, non-fiction)
- Armageddon in Retrospect (2008, non-fiction and short stories)
- Look at the Birdie (2009, short stories)
- While Mortals Sleep (2011, short stories)
- Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941–1943 (2012, juvenilia)
- We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012, two novellas)
- Sucker's Portfolio (2013, short stories)
- If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (2013, speeches)
- Complete Stories (2017, short stories)
- High School Journalist, Promoter, Jester: Kurt Vonnegut in the Shortridge Daily Echo, 1937–1940 (2023, juvenilia) (transcription project)
Other works
- Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971, play)
- Between Time and Timbuktu (1972, teleplay based on elements of Vonnegut's previous writings with a new preface by Vonnegut)
- Sun, Moon, Star (1982, children's book)
- Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (1988)
- Like Shaking Hands with God (1999, conversation with Lee Stringer)
- Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2012)
- Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2012)
- Kurt Vonnegut Drawings (2014)
- Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (2019, conversations compiled with co-author Suzanne McConnell)
- Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 (2020)
Short stories
- “2 B R 0 2 B” (1962)
- “The Big Trip Up Yonder” (1954, later retitled “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”)
- “Unready to Wear” (1954)
Works about Vonnegut
- Board of Education v. Pico, a 1982 court case about banning several books, including Slaughterhouse-Five
- "'Being Alive is a Crock of Shit' - Kurt Vonnegut's Kind Pessimism" (2015) (start transcription)
- "Psychological aspects of the explication of category of expressivness in art translation" (2017) (start transcription)
- "Time Travel in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five" (2018) (start transcription)
- "Vonnegut, Darwin, and the Tragical Satirical Arc of Human History in the Novel Galapagos" (2020) (start transcription)
- "Memory and Testimony in Extraordinary Times" (2021) (start transcription)
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