If you loved the wry, offbeat humor and clever commentary on absurdity in Timequake, you'll feel right at home with Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut's signature wit shines as he chronologically scrambles Billy Pilgrim's wartime experiences with alien abductions and biting satire, making the tragic and the ridiculous collide in unforgettable ways.

If you enjoyed how Timequake breaks the fourth wall and toys with its own storytelling, Breakfast of Champions will delight you. Vonnegut inserts himself as a character, doodles in the margins, and gleefully deconstructs fiction, all while following the misadventures of Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover.

If you appreciated the way Timequake finds mordant humor in life's futility and the illusion of free will, Catch-22 is a classic you'll savor. Yossarian's struggle to survive the bureaucratic madness of war is laced with black comedy, existential frustration, and a relentless parade of absurdity.

If you were drawn in by Timequake's playful jumps in chronology and narrative asides, you'll be intrigued by Motherless Brooklyn. Lethem weaves a fractured, looping investigation through the mind of Lionel Essrog, a detective with Tourette's, whose perspective scrambles time, memory, and reality.

If you pondered Timequake's musings on fate, agency, and the cosmic joke of existence, The Sirens of Titan will further stimulate your philosophical curiosity. Vonnegut takes you across planets and timelines to ask why we're here, whether anything matters, and if the universe is laughing at us all along.