
A sleepless office worker, sick of a life built out of catalogue furniture, meets the reckless soap maker Tyler Durden, and together they start a secret club where men beat each other to feel alive. What began as an outlet quickly grows into something far larger and harder to control. The novel that made Palahniuk famous and named the mood of a whole era.

The last surviving member of a doomsday cult dictates his life story into the black box of a hijacked plane as it runs out of fuel. Raised from birth to serve others, he becomes an overnight media messiah and watches the machine of fame chew him up. A savage, funny satire on celebrity and religion.

A fashion model loses her face to a gunshot and, robbed of the beauty her whole life was built on, sets off across the country with a mysterious, glamorous companion. Reinventing herself as she goes, she picks apart what identity and beauty are even worth. A fast, sharp road novel about the masks we wear.

A sex-addicted medical-school dropout pays for his mother's care by working at a colonial theme park and running a strange con: he pretends to choke in restaurants so the people who save him will feel responsible for him. Between visits to his fading mother, he starts digging into the truth about his own origins. A raw, blackly comic novel about need and connection.

A journalist investigating crib deaths discovers an old African poem that kills anyone it is read to. Realizing he now carries a weapon he cannot forget, he sets out with a strange group of companions to hunt down and destroy every copy. A dark fantasy about power, grief and the danger of words.

On an island resort where the old families keep their secrets, a failed painter and waitress keeps a diary while her husband lies in a coma. Pushed by his relatives, she rediscovers a gift for painting that may be tied to something much darker on the island. A slow-burning story about art, sacrifice and small-town lies.

A group of would-be writers answers an ad for a three-month artists' retreat, only to find themselves locked away together with no comforts and no way out. As conditions worsen, each one tells a story, and they begin sabotaging their own rescue to make their ordeal a better tale. A grim, funny novel-in-stories about ambition and the hunger for attention.

The life of Buster Casey, a small-town boy turned urban legend, is pieced together after his death from the voices of everyone who knew him. Their contradictory accounts trace how a rural misfit with a taste for danger became the strange center of a cult movement. A wild oral biography that slowly reveals itself to be science fiction.

An aging porn star plans to end her career by setting a world record on camera with six hundred men in a single day. In a waiting room full of numbered participants, three of them carry secrets that tie them to her. A crude, sharp satire on the sex industry and fame.

A teenage foreign exchange student arrives in the American heartland as part of a sleeper cell planning a massive terrorist strike. Reporting home in broken, mangled English, he is slowly unsettled by the ordinary family that has taken him in. A biting, deliberately hard-to-read satire on America seen through alien eyes.

An aging film legend and her fiercely devoted assistant live inside a world made entirely of gossip and old-Hollywood glamour. When a smooth new suitor appears, the assistant suspects he is writing a tell-all memoir that ends with the star's death. A dizzying, name-dropping farce about celebrity.

A thirteen-year-old girl, the daughter of a movie star and a billionaire, wakes up dead and finds herself in a gross, bureaucratic Hell. Undaunted, she sets about organizing the place and questioning why she is really there. A funny, foul-mouthed coming-of-age story set in the afterlife.

Back among the living as a wandering ghost, the same sharp-tongued girl watches her mother turn her death into a worldwide religion. Locked out of both Heaven and Hell, she tries to work out the rules of her strange new existence. A satirical sequel about faith, fame and family.

An ordinary young woman is chosen by a tech billionaire as the test subject for a line of intimate devices designed to make women helpless with pleasure. As the products go on sale and society starts to unravel, she realizes she has to figure out what he is really planning. An over-the-top satire on consumerism and desire.

Rumors spread of a coming day of reckoning, guided by a little black book everyone seems to be reading. When it arrives, it overturns society and splits the country into strange new nations built on race and ideology. A furious, provocative satire on political division.

A sound designer creates the most terrifying screams in cinema, and no one knows how far she goes to record them. In another thread, a grieving father hunts for the man who took his daughter. Their paths move toward each other in a short, brutal thriller about grief and obsession.

Two brothers from a wealthy family of professional killers grow up idle and bored on a country estate, filling their days with cruel games. Behind the black comedy lies the family's grim trade and the boys' place in it. A provocative, unsettling short novel. Not yet translated into Russian.

At a respectable-looking high school, the brightest and most gifted students begin to vanish one by one. Weaving in literary echoes and dark satire, the novel follows the choices teenagers make against an uncertain future. Palahniuk's most recent book. Not yet translated into Russian.