Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse-five; or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
207 editions published between 1968 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 10,134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Billy Pilgrim serves as a chaplain's assistant in the Second World War, is captured by the Germans, and survives the fire bombing of Dresden to contemplate the human condition

Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
246 editions published between 1963 and 2012 in 17 languages and held by 7,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of Vonnegut's major works, a young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb. This is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes

Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday! by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
150 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in 13 languages and held by 5,414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Aging science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth

The sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
143 editions published between 1959 and 2010 in 15 languages and held by 4,456 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Malachi Constant, "the richest man in America," gives up his indulgent lifestyle to follow an urgent calling to probe the depths of space. He participates in a Martian invasion of Earth, mates with the wife of an astronaut adrift on the tides of time, and follows the lure of the "Sirens of Titan."

Jailbird : a novel by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
50 editions published between 1979 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 4,436 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Harvard, the New Deal, the Holocaust, World War II, Watergate, two prison terms, and a giant conglomerate - Walter Starbuck, who tries to live by the Sermon on the Mount, experiences them all. Shall the meek inherit the earth? Perhaps on a short-term basis

Galápagos : a novel by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
70 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 18 languages and held by 4,365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands

Player piano by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
108 editions published between 1952 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 4,296 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Vonnegut's first novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. A human revolt against the machines which control life was arranged by the machines themselves to prove the futility of such resistance. Visionary and unrelenting, this is felt by some critics to be Vonnegut's best and most original novel

Bluebeard : a novel by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
41 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in English and held by 3,802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, an abstract expressionist artist, who acquired the largest collection of abstract expressionist paintings in private hands

God bless you, Mr. Rosewater : or, Pearls before swine by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
145 editions published between 1965 and 2011 in 9 languages and held by 3,777 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A lawyer schemes to gain control of a large fortune by having the present claimant declared insane

Hocus pocus by Kurt Vonnegut ( Book )
36 editions published between 1990 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 3,745 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A small, exclusive college in upstate New York is nestled along the frozen shores of Lake Mohiga ... and directly across from a maximum-security prison. The two institutions manage to coexist peacefully, until 10,000 prisoners break out and head directly for the college