"Slaughterhouse Five"

Kurt Vonnegut's satirical anti-war novel is somehow hilarious and depressing at the same time. I read it in about two days and wished it would have lasted longer. Billy, the main character, is a POW in WWII who survives the Dresden bombing and recounts the atrocities he witnesses during the war with a light wit and straight-forward manner. Billy also inadvertently time travels, living and re-living events in the future and past out of sequence, describing his mundane future marriage, a plane crash he already knows he's going to be in, and time spent as a captive on an alien planet. (It doesn't read as crazy as it sounds).
     His time travel and the aliens' comments on the manner of humans raises existential questions in a very approachable way, that makes you think but isn't so complicated that it loses its entertainment value. This book has gotten ton of literary praise, and for good reason. It's considered an American classic, and has been called "the best book written in the 20th century." It might have also earned a place in my top 10 favorite books.