NONFICTION
Released: June 15, 2004
"Dolorous yet exhilarating dispatches from the edge."
Palahniuk takes a break from his pitch-black, apocalyptic fiction (
Diary, 2003, etc.) and spins a few yarns about real people--some not insane or suffering from a debilitating illness.
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FICTION
Released: May 17, 2005
"Stomach-churning horror that takes a bit too much joy in its diabolic machinations."
FICTION
Released: May 1, 2007
"Not for everyone, but readers who like to walk on the novelist's wild side will rave."
Viciously incisive and lethally funny social commentary in a novel cast as an oral biography.
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FICTION
Released: May 20, 2008
"The sordidness might appeal to the Palahniuk's cult following, but it won't extend it."
The notorious novelist's excursion into the world of porn might well be his most moralistic work to date.
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FICTION
Released: May 5, 2009
"Stylistically exhilarating but not for every taste."
A series of dispatches written in fractured and occasionally hilarious English suck readers into the mind of exchange student and would-be terrorist Pygmy.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 2011
"The novel sustains a consistency of narrative voice, but there is little plot or momentum, until it climaxes at the end with a power play, identity transformation and O. Henry–ish twist, followed by the most frightening of all possible promises: "To be continued…"."
