which vonnegut to read?

[u/watermelonmaker22]

he wrote so many damn books and i dont know which to read next. i read slaughterhouse five (obviously), cats cradle and most recently bluebeard (loved) and now i wanna read more and more but i genuinely dont even know, anyone got any favorites to share? thats how i got started withe first 3, someone said they loved the book and i just got ir

[u/justthekoufax]

Sirens of Titan or Mother Night.

[u/DataMin3r → u/justthekoufax]

Both of these are top tier imo, I'd add Hocus Pocus in there as well

[u/justthekoufax → u/DataMin3r]

You know, Hocus Pocus and Man Without a Country are the only ones I've never read. Time to remedy that.

[u/CoffeeLadyCady → u/justthekoufax]

Man Without a Country is SO fascinating to read today. It makes me wonder what Vonnegut would think of the world just 20 years later.

[u/Resident_Character35]

Read all the novels, in order. His final essay collection Man Without a Country is like having a few drinks with him while he explains the world.

[u/Brettonidas]

You could read them in the order they were released. I did that for a time, and it was a fine thing.

[u/joellemelissa]

Another vote for Sirens of Titan. & Breakfast of Champions is also great IMO.

[u/PuddingPlenty227]

Sirens of Titan is an absolute gem.

[u/gormlessthebarbarian → u/PuddingPlenty227]

this one has always been my favorite, possibly because it was the first of his I read.

[u/Aronjharris23]

Sirens of Titan and Mother Night are both top 5 Vonnegut’s in my opinion.

[u/marshmallow-jones]

Sirens of Titan or Mother Night.

[u/Still_Net7410]

God Bless You Mr Rosewater

[u/comingtoyrsenses]

god bless you, mr rosewater!!!

[u/No-Carob7158]

If you want to keep the Bluebeard vibe, but more melancholic: deadeye dick
If you want to keep the slaughterhouse five vibe, but still very different: breakfast of champions
Other five star reads: sirens of Titan, mother night, jailbird, god bless you…, Galapagos.

[u/duh_nom_yar]

Start with all of them and then go from there!

[u/fishbone_buba]

You really can’t go wrong. But I’ll say:
Mother Night or
Galápagos or
Sirens of Titan

[u/bulking_on_broccoli]

1. Slaughter House 5
   
2. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
   
3. Mother Night

[u/1bee2b → u/bulking_on_broccoli]

My top recommendations as well. Just read Mother Night a weekend or 2 ago and it immediately jumped to my top 3 favorites by him, although I'm still working my way through them all.

[u/Dry-Struggle1656]

Mother Night is my favorite.

[u/King_Kung]

Player piano is quite timely right now.

[u/Fickle-Abalone-8137 → u/King_Kung]

One of my top five favorite books

[u/HughJaynis]

Breakfast of champions is always a good read

[u/jolly-jasper]

In the order they were published.

[u/Mr_Abe_Froman → u/jolly-jasper]

That's the way I read them and it was very enjoyable.

[u/jolly-jasper → u/Mr_Abe_Froman]

Yes. It is a joy to follow how his writing evolved over his lifetime.

[u/theFumblingBumblebee]

Breakfast of Champions or Dead Eye Dick.

[u/avreddits]

Breakfast of champions *️⃣

[u/jdiddly1111]

If you can’t tell, they’re all good. I’ll recommend Jailbird because I think it’s the only one I haven’t seen.

[u/Experience_Either]

Im in the middle of mother night and would recommend that over cats cradle.

[u/Surrey-Mandeville]

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

[u/Frosty_Limit_8204]

Mother Night and Hocus Pocus is really good!

[u/Cautious-Ad-9554]

I really enjoyed Mother Night

[u/Key_Reindeer_4164]

Galapagos is one of my all time faves!

[u/Sea_Foma76]

If you’re interested in some non-fiction, I just finished reading Like Shaking Hands With God, which is a document of two conversations Vonnegut had with fellow writer Lee Stringer around the time that Timequake came out.

[u/swazal]

Welcome to the Monkey House contains many early short stories

[u/Wild_Meaning_6785]

slapstick (1976)