Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“So it goes.” In this darkly funny and profoundly human masterpiece, Kurt Vonnegut bends time, space, and sanity to tell the story of Billy Pilgrim—an ordinary soldier who becomes unstuck in time. From the horrors of the Dresden firebombing to alien abductions on the planet Tralfamadore, Billy’s fractured journey reveals the absurdity of war and the fragility of existence. “Slaughterhouse-Five” is both savage satire and tender elegy—a dazzling fusion of science fiction and war memoir that changed the shape of modern literature forever.