Kurt Vonnegut at 100

 Apparently Kurt Vonnegut would have been 100 today. 

I believe I have just read my first Kurt Vonnegut work, Slaughterhouse-Five. I actually listened to the audiobook version, for a bookclub today. I didn't know it was about the bombing of Dresden in WWII. And interesting to be talking about this today, on Remembrance Day. So much I didn't know...

Kurt Vonnegut would have turned 100 today — his war novels are relevant as ever - NPR

What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now (Salman Rushdie New Yorker essay on the novel from 2019) 

Listing his works here, for myself, as reminders:

Novels

• Player Piano (1952)
• The Sirens of Titan (1959)
• Mother Night (1962)
• Cat's Cradle (1963)
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) - read, liked it!
• Breakfast of Champions (1973)
• Slapstick (1976)
• Jailbird (1979)
• Deadeye Dick (1982)
• Galápagos (1985)
• Bluebeard (1987)
• Hocus Pocus (1990)
• Timequake (1997)

Short fiction collections

• Canary in a Cat House (1961)
• Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
• Bagombo Snuff Box (1997)
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
• Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) – short stories and essays
• Look at the Birdie (2009)
• While Mortals Sleep (2011)
• We Are What We Pretend to Be (2012)
• Sucker's Portfolio (2013)
• Complete Stories (2017)

Nonfiction

• Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974)
• Palm Sunday (1981)
• Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays (1984)
• Fates Worse Than Death (1991)
• A Man Without a Country (2005)[66]
• Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941–1943 (2012)
• If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (2013)
• Vonnegut by the Dozen (2013)
• Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2014)
• Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style (2019) with Suzanne McConnell
• Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 (2020) Editor Edith Vonnegut

Plays

• The First Christmas Morning (1962)
• Fortitude (1968)
• Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
• Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
• Stones, Time and Elements (A Humanist Requiem) (1987)
• Make Up Your Mind (1993)
• L'Histoire du Soldat (1997)

Children's books

• Sun Moon Star (1980)

Update: returning periodically to record what I've read (not enough yet!)