Order of Kurt Vonnegut Books
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was an American author known for his science fiction and satire. He was also a critical leftist intellectual. He served in World War II as a soldier and was a POW who received a Purple Heart for what he called a “frostbite.” Vonnegut gave his works all letter grades – he gave Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five an A+, while he gave A’s to The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Jailbird. On the flip side, he gave Happy Birthday, Wanda June and Slapstick D’s.
Kurt Vonnegut published his first novel in 1952, which was Player Piano. Below is a list of Kurt Vonnegut’s books in order of when they were originally published:
Publication Order of Delta Fiction Books
| Galápagos | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bluebeard | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Player Piano /Utopia 14 | (1952) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sirens of Titan | (1959) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cat's Cradle | (1960) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mother Night | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Between Time and Timbuktu | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Breakfast of Champions | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jailbird | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deadeye Dick | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hocus Pocus | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Timequake | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Report on the Barnhouse Effect | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Foster Portfolio | (1951) | Info. |
| Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog | (1953) | Info. |
| Unready to Wear | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| D.P. | (1953) | Info. |
| The Big Trip Up Yonder | (1954) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Harrison Bergeron | (1961) | Info. |
| 2 B R 0 2 B | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Honor of a Newsboy | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Confido | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hall of Mirrors | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Song for Selma | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hello, Red | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Good Explainer | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| King and Queen of the Universe | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Little Drops of Water | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Nice Little People | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ed Luby's Key Club | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shout about It from the Housetops | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| FUBAR | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Basic Training | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slice of Life | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Canary in a Cat House | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 2BR02B | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Welcome to the Monkey House | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bagombo Snuff Box | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Armageddon in Retrospect | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Look at the Birdie | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| While Mortals Sleep | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sucker's Portfolio | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sinbad | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Palm Sunday | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Like Shaking Hands with God | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kurt Vonnegut on Mark Twain, Lincoln, Imperialist Wars and the Weather | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Man Without a Country | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Letters | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| We Are What We Pretend To Be | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| If This Isn't Nice What Is? | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pity the Reader | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Biographies & Memoirs
| Fates Worse Than Death | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Plays
(with Christopher Sergel)
| Welcome to the Monkey House | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Happy Birthday, Wanda June | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Children's Books
| Sun, Moon, Star | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Slaughter-House Five Books
(with Ryan North)
| Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
(by Jacques Derrida, Lou Reed)
| Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Christopher Sergel Plays
(with Christopher Sergel)
| Meet Me in St. Louis | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Cheaper by the Dozen | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Welcome to the Monkey House | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Literary Conversations Books
| Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Graham Greene | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Walker Percy | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with William Styron | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Malcolm Cowley | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Lillian Hellman | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Tennessee Williams | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ernest Hemingway | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Truman Capote: Conversations | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Flannery O'Connor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Peter Taylor | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Arthur Miller | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Edward Albee | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Erskine Caldwell | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Norman Mailer | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Graves | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Shelby Foote | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robertson Davies | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with James Baldwin | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with John Gardner | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Wilbur | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Tom Wolfe | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Raymond Carver | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Eugene O'Neill | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Reynolds Price | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Bernard Malamud | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Nikki Giovanni | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With Thornton Wilder | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Coles | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Conversations with Walker Percy | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Wright | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Paul Bowles | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Amiri Baraka | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Toni Morrison | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Saul Bellow | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Henry Miller | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ernest Gaines | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ralph Ellison | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chester Himes | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Susan Sontag | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ishmael Reed | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Derek Walcott | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| More Conversations with Eudora Welty | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Pauline Kael | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with V. S. Naipaul | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with N. Scott Momaday | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chinua Achebe | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Denise Levertov | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With William Faulkner | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with E. L. Doctorow | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With John Fowles | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Salman Rushdie | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with William S. Burroughs | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Chaim Potok | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Richard Ford | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Christopher Isherwood | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Mary Gordon | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Jim Harrison | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Clarence Major | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Margaret Walker | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Erica Jong | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Elie Wiesel: Conversations | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Joseph Brodsky: Conversations | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Rita Dove | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gloria Naylor | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Audre Lorde | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Ray Bradbury | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations With John le Carré | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Isaac Asimov | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Don DeLillo | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gore Vidal | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Robert Penn Warren | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Jack Kerouac | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Thomas McGuane | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Larry Brown | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Sonia Sanchez | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Wendell Berry | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Leon Forrest | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
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Notes: Player Piano was also published as Utopia-14. The Last Interview is co-authored by Tom McCartan. Like Shaking Hands with God is co-authored by Lee Stringer.
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Canary in a Cat House is a short story collection, not a standalone novel.
I just finished reading it.
Cheers John – we’ll update the listing.
Years ago my library had a VHS tape of a Vonnegut movie about a black kid growing up in Germany after WWII. Fathered by an American GI and living in an orphanage . I didn’t steal it, but I was tempted too.