NOVEL Player Piano August 1952
NOVEL The Sirens of Titan October 31, 1959
PLAY Penelope (Alternate title Happy Birthday, Wanda June) 1960
NOVEL Mother Night 1961
COLLECTION Canary in a Cathouse September 1961
PLAY The Very First Christmas Morning December 14, 1962
√ NOVEL Cat’s Cradle April 1963
NOVEL God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine January 1965
COLLECTION Welcome to the Monkey House August 1968
PLAY Fortitude September 1968
√ NOVEL Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death March 1969NOVEL Dance with Death March 1969
√ NOVEL Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday July 1973
COLLECTION Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions) 1974
√ NOVEL Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! October 1976
NOVEL Jailbird September 1979
√ COLLECTION Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage 1981
NOVEL Deadeye Dick October 1982
COLLECTION Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays December 1984
NOVEL Galápagos: A Novel October 1985
PLAY Requiem 1987
NOVEL Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) October 1987
NOVEL Hocus Pocus September 1990
COLLECTION Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage September 5, 1991
PLAY Make Up Your Mind 1993
PLAY Miss Temptation 1993
PLAY L’Histoire du Soldat 1993
NOVEL Timequake September 22, 1997
COLLECTION Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction August 1999
COLLECTION God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian October 1999 (note: originally recorded as fictional radio interviews)
COLLECTION A Man Without a Country September 15, 2005
COLLECTION Armageddon in Retrospect and Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace April 1, 2008
COLLECTION Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction October 20, 2009
COLLECTION While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction January 25, 2011
COLLECTION Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941–1943 April 23, 2012
COLLECTION We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works October 9, 2012
COLLECTION Sucker’s Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing March 12, 2013
COLLECTION If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young April 30, 2013