Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
10 best books like Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle (Harold Bloom): Lord of the Flies, The Handmaid's Tale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, A Wrinkle in Time, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, Venus on the Half-Shell, Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar, And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
| Author | William Golding |
| ISBN | 0140283331 |
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing,...
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant,...
| Author | J.K. Rowling |
| ISBN | 0545010225 |
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.
The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing...
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 1250153271 |
It was a dark and stormy night.
Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure - one that will threaten their lives and our universe.
Winner...
| Author | William Rodney Allen |
| ISBN | 0878053581 |
Kurt Vonnegut says: "I've worked with enough students to know what beginning writers are like, and if they will just talk to me for twenty minutes I can help them so much, because there are such simple things to know. Make a character want something-that's how you begin." William Rodney Allen teaches...
| Author | Philip José Farmer |
| ISBN | 0352398469 |
Simon Wagstaff is the Space Wanderer, a seeker of truth and electric banjo player who narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned Chinese spaceship, the Hwang Ho. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with a cat-like...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0395500761 |
An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s.
Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways; In Watermelon Sugar expresses the...
| Author | Charles J. Shields |
| ISBN | 0805086935 |
The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature
In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter, asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A most respectful demurring by...
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0679729461 |
I may have read some Ray Bradbury when I was a teenager but my memory is weak. But when he died in June 2012 I looked for a book. This is the one I found used at an affordable price. It was first published in 1965 and claims to be “Ray Bradbury’s own selection of his best stories.”
I have always...
Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome, introducing the science fiction...
