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Where to Start With Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut wrote sharp, funny, deeply humane novels — but with over a dozen books, it's hard to know where to start with Kurt Vonnegut. This five-book on-ramp begins with his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, then moves through the satirical science fiction of Cat's Cradle and The Sirens of Titan, the dark comedy of Breakfast of Champions, and the moral tangle of Mother Night. No decades of catalog required — just the entry points into his voice.