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author spotlight
Chuck Palahniuk’s nine novels are the bestselling Snuff, Rant, Haunted, Lullaby, and Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Diary, Survivor, Invisible Monsters and Choke, which was made into a film by director Clark Gregg. He is also the author of the non-fiction profile of Portland, Fugitives and Refugees, and the non-fiction collection, Stranger Than Fiction. Palahniuk lives in the Pacific Northwest.
www.chuckpalahniuk.net
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Choke
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $14.95
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2002
Price: $14.95
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Snuff
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.95
In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends to cap her career by breaking the world record for serial fornication by having sex with 600 men on... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.95
In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends to cap her career by breaking the world record for serial fornication by having sex with 600 men on... Read more >
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Rant
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $14.95
Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $14.95
Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death... Read more >
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Pygmy
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Lullaby
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2003
Price: $13.95
Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2003
Price: $13.95
Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Haunted
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $15.00
Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme... Read more >
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Diary
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $13.95
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $13.95
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she’s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn’t stop his clients from threatening Misty... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Stranger Than Fiction
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.95
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.
At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.95
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.
At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
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Choke (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $14.95
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $14.95
Victor Mancini's a medical school dropout with a problem. He needs to pay for elder care for his mother, who's got Alzheimer's. So he comes up with the perfect scam: pretending to choke in upscale restaurants and getting “saved” by fellow diners who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, offer him financial... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD.
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Fugitives and Refugees
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $16.95
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2003
Price: $16.95
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Choke (Movie Tie-in Edition)
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $19.99
From the master of the dark and the depraved, whose Fight Club earned him a cult following, comes a novel about Victor Mancini - a medical school dropout who believes himself to be a direct descendant of Jesus Christ (never mind the fact that he happens to be an incorrigible sex... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $19.99
From the master of the dark and the depraved, whose Fight Club earned him a cult following, comes a novel about Victor Mancini - a medical school dropout who believes himself to be a direct descendant of Jesus Christ (never mind the fact that he happens to be an incorrigible sex... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Snuff
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $24.95
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Rant
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $24.95
“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…”
Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Rant (Limited Edition)
Format: Hardcover, 344 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $150.00
The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet, speckled edges; and an exclusive 1300-word "Automotive Afterword" entitled "Recipes... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 344 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2007
Price: $150.00
The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet, speckled edges; and an exclusive 1300-word "Automotive Afterword" entitled "Recipes... Read more >
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Haunted
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $39.95
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,”... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $39.95
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,”... Read more >
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Stranger Than Fiction
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.95
From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction, his first... Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $14.95
From the bestselling author of Fight Club and Diary, a collection of essays and journalistic pieces that prove that real life has imagination beaten cold in the strangeness and wonder departments
Chuck Palahniuk’s world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. The pieces that comprise Stranger Than Fiction, his first... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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Pygmy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $14.95
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $14.95
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful... Read more >
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Fugitives and Refugees
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography... Read more >
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside?
Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?
Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video?
What goes on at the Scum Center?
How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?
In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Rant
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…”
Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and... Read more >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $14.95
“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…”
Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Haunted
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $15.00
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,”... Read more >
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2005
Price: $15.00
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,”... Read more >
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Tell-All
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95
The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95
The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Snuff
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $13.95
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $13.95
From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a full-frontal Triple X novel that goes where no American work of fiction has gone before
Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera. With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Pygmy
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful... Read more >
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.95
The Manchurian Candidate meets South Park—Chuck Palahniuk’s finest novel since the generation-defining Fight Club.
“Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival Midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.”
Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Tell-All
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95
The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford... Read more >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95
The hyperactive love child of Page Six and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? caught in a tawdry love triangle with The Fan. Even Kitty Kelly will blush.
Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard–inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Diary
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $13.95
“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?”
Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.
Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 26, 2003
Price: $13.95
“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?”
Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.
Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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