If you enjoyed the way Slaughterhouse-Five uses humor and absurdity to grapple with the trauma and futility of war through Billy Pilgrim’s misadventures, you’ll love Catch-22. Yossarian’s frantic, circular logic and the ridiculous military bureaucracy deliver biting satire and laugh-out-loud moments, all while exposing the madness of combat.

If Billy Pilgrim’s jumps through time, memory, and trauma fascinated you, The Time Traveler’s Wife offers another poignant, non-linear journey. Henry and Clare’s love story unfolds across decades in a fragmented chronology, blending heartbreak and hope in a narrative that refuses to move in a straight line.

If you were drawn to Slaughterhouse-Five for its deep, unsettling questions about free will, mortality, and what it means to be human, Never Let Me Go will captivate you. Through Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy’s quietly devastating lives, Ishiguro explores existential themes and the haunting inevitability of fate.

If Billy Pilgrim’s blurred morality and uncertain heroism resonated with you, you’ll find Mother Night equally compelling. Howard W. Campbell Jr. is a Nazi propagandist and American spy whose shifting loyalties and ethical dilemmas prompt you to question the very nature of good and evil.

If you enjoyed Vonnegut’s self-aware narrative tricks and the way Slaughterhouse-Five breaks the fourth wall, If on a winter’s night a traveler will delight you. Calvino invites you, the reader, directly into the narrative, creating an experience where stories fold into themselves and reality is always just out of reach.