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

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
Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog(1953)
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Unready to Wear(1953)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Trip Up Yonder(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Harrison Bergeron(1961)
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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 (With: Richard Lingeman)(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 (With: Christopher Sergel)(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 (By: Jacques Derrida)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of The Last Interview Books

Learning to Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kurt Vonnegut(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin,Quincy Troupe)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury,Sam Weller)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
David Bowie (By: David Bowie)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Julia Child (By: Julia Child)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
John Lewis (By: Melville House)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kurt Cobain (By: Melville House)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
bell hooks (By: bell hooks)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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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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3 Responses to “Order of Kurt Vonnegut Books”

  1. John Lienhart: 3 years ago

    Canary in a Cat House is a short story collection, not a standalone novel.
    I just finished reading it.

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    • Graeme: 3 years ago

      Cheers John – we’ll update the listing.

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  2. Rick Galliher: 5 years ago

    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.

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