The Sirens of Titan (Kurt Vonnegut, 1959)

Winston has flown his craft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, and been converted into pure energy. Materializing only when his waveforms intercept a planet, he only gets home once every 59 days. But at least it's some consolation that he knows all that ever has been and all that ever will be.

From the same author:
Breakfast of Champions
Slaughterhouse 5

Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut, 1973)

Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast". One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is an insane and aging Pontiac automobile dealer, who becomes obsessed with the literal accuracy of the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer.

Rating: 9/10

Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut, 1965)

The narrator is planning to write a book describing the whereabouts of important people when Hiroshima was bombed. During his research, the narrator becomes involved with the children of Felix Hoenikker, the fictional Nobel laureate physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. As the novel progresses, the narrator learns of a substance called ice-nine, created by the late Hoenikker and now secretly in the possession of his children.

Rating: 9/10

Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut, 1969)

Slaughterhouse-Five is set in the 20th century. It intertwines the story of Billy Pilgrim through different time periods, most notably his experience in World War II in Dresden during the firebombing and his relationships with his family. He meets, and is later kidnapped by, aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who exhibit him in a Tralfamadorian zoo with Montana Wildhack, a pornographic movie star. The Tralfamadorians see in four dimensions, the fourth dimension being time. Tralfamadorians have seen every instant of their lives already; they cannot choose to change anything about their fate, but can choose to spend time in any moment in their lives that they wish.
The book is a series of seemingly random happenings that, in combination, present the thematic elements of the novel.

Rating: 9/10

From the same author:
Breakfast of Champions
The Sirens of Titan