17 Best fiction books like Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o…

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1. A Scanner Darkly

By: Philip K. Dick

4.02

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to… read more

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  • classics
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
"We're all dreaming,"

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"I have seen myself backward."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"It's easy to win. Anybody can win."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

"Okay, I'll come back again on Thursday."

-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

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Matthew    Ward
, Stuart Gilbert, None

2. 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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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
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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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3. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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4. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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5. Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

By: Jerome Klinkowitz , Harold Bloom , Terry Southern , Peter J. Reed , James Lundquist , Richard Giannone , David H. Goldsmith , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , Wendy B. Faris

2.60

Format: None pages,

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome K… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
Cover of Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Manuel Espín, None

6. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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7. East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

4.42

Format: 601 pages, Paperback

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed … read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"All great and precious things are lonely."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"No one who is young is ever going to be old."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

"A man without words is a man without thought."

-John Steinbeck, East of Eden

8. 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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9. 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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  • classics
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • novels
"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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10. 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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  • classics
  • literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
"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

11. 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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12. 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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  • literature
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
"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

13. Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on o… read more

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14. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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

15. 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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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"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

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16. The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.79

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta) is one of Ernest Hemin… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Never be daunted"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"I am always in love."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"You'll lose it, if you talk about it"

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

"Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)

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

17. 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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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • humor
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

18. 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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  • classics
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
"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?

Cover of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

19. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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20. 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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  • classics
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  • dystopia
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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

Cover of Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Ryan North

21. Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Ryan North

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
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"Recomendei aos meus filhos que não se envolvam com massacres sob hipótese alguma, e que notícias de massacres de inimigos não devem ser motivo de satisfação ou alegria."

-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

"A coisa mais importante que aprendi em Tralfamadore é que, quando uma pessoa morre, ela apenas parece estar morta. Mas continua bem viva no passado, e é uma bobagem chorar quando ela é enterrada. Tod…"

-Ryan North, Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

15 best-selling classics books like Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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A Scanner Darkly

Philip K. Dick

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

3.61

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas , Robin Buss

4.30

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines

2.00

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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

3.80

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