9 Top science fiction books like Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages,

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Stranger by Albert Camus, 
Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

1. The Stranger

By: Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

Published in 1942 by French author Albert Camus, The Stranger has long been considered a classic of… read more

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"It is better to burn than to disappear."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"Everything is true, and nothing is true!"

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"After awhile you could get used to anything."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

"To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."

-Albert Camus, The Stranger

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2. Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages,

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more

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3. Lord of the Flies

By: William Golding

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From t… read more

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  • literature
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Cover of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

4. The Catcher in the Rye

By: J.D. Salinger

3.80

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school... Fleei… read more

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"Sleep tight, ya morons!"

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"People never notice anything."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"Mothers are all slightly insane."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am."

-J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Cover of Animal Farm by George Orwell, Russell Baker, C.M. Woodhouse

5. Animal Farm

By: George Orwell , Russell Baker , C.M. Woodhouse

3.99

Format: 141 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here. A farm… read more

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"Four legs good, two legs bad."

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

"The only good human being is a dead one."

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

"Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?"

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

"Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers."

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

6. The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career… read more

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7. The Old Man and the Sea

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here This short novel, already a moder… read more

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"My big fish must be somewhere."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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8. Fahrenheit 451

By: Ray Bradbury

3.96

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenhe… read more

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"Are you happy?"

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"It was a pleasure to burn."

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Those who don't build must burn."

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"The sun burnt every day. It burnt time."

-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

By: Ken Kesey

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, … read more

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10. Of Mice and Men

By: John Steinbeck

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifter… read more

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11. The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka , Stanley Corngold

3.88

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning fr… read more

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"Oh, God"

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"I only fear danger where I want to fear it."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

"It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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12. Catch-22

By: Joseph Heller

3.99

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more

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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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13. Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley

3.99

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vi… read more

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"Pain was a fascinating horror"

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"Ending is better than mending."

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"The more stitches, the less riches."

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."

-Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

14. The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles… read more

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15. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Paperback

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more

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16. The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.99

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more

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"Carry the fire."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If only my heart were stone."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

17. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams

18. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

By: Douglas Adams

4.23

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked o… read more

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"Don't Panic."

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

"Ow! My brains!"

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

"But the plans were on display…"

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

"How many roads must a man walk down?"

-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

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19. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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20. 1984

By: George Orwell

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother i… read more

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"Power is not a means; it is an end."

-George Orwell, 1984

"To die hating them, that was freedom."

-George Orwell, 1984

"In the face of pain there are no heroes."

-George Orwell, 1984

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

-George Orwell, 1984

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21. A Clockwork Orange

By: Anthony Burgess

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more

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"I was cured all right."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"I was always on my oddy knocky."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."

-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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4.02

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2.60

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4.20

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3.80

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4.33

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