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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

  • FINISHED
  • Finished July 2025
  • First published 1969

fiction science fiction literary fiction

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time and moves between his life as a soldier in World War II, his ordinary life afterward, and a stay on an alien planet.   The book is built around the firebombing of Dresden, which he lived through as a prisoner.