5 Best Chuck Palahniuk Books
The books you start with when you journey through his works.
5. Fight Club (1996)
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As mentioned in the introduction, this is Chuck Palahniuk's most well-known work, having been brought to the big screen in 1999 by director David Fincher with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton starring. It had been floating around as a novel for 3 years, before it became the cult smash that many know it as today. The novel, as most people will hopefully know by this point, follows the life of an insomniac office worker who becomes involved with a nihilistic character known as Tyler Durden. His life is never the same after this. Without wanting to give too much away about the novel, although you must have been living under a rock for the past 20 years if you don't know the full story and especially the twist of Fight Club, it is the classic anti-establishment story and seems to sum a generations feeling, especially the male gender, of how unconnected they feel to their surroundings and how hard it is to find a place they can feel comfortable within the world; even if it does mean beating the crap out of each other or blowing up the occasional Starbucks!