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
(with Richard Lingeman)
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)
| Happy Birthday, Wanda June | (1970) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Welcome to the Monkey House | (1970) | 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 Comic Tales of Fantasy Books
(with Peter Haining)
| The Flying Sorcerers | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wizards of Odd | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wizards of Odd | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ob??dni rycerze | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Last Interview Books
(by Jacques Derrida, David Bowie, Lou Reed)
| Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Connoisseur's Science Fiction | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| ABC of Science Fiction | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best SF Vol 7 | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Masks | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Golden Age of Science Fiction | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Space Odyssey | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A World of Fiction | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ultimate Frankenstein | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Flying Sorcerers | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wizards of Odd | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Playboy Book of Science Fiction | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers on Writing | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Slaughterhouse-Five: Critical Insights | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Science Fiction Collection 002 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grave Predictions | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ultimate Short Story Bundle | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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.
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.