BEAUTIFUL YOU is Palahniuk's much-anticipated satire of the emerging erotic thriller genre, a mash-up of mommy porn and chick lit ala Sex and the City, and fantasy lit ala Clan of the Cave Bear. Imagine if Ira Levin had a baby with Jean Auel.

Beautiful You

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a “dark satire about the inhuman condition” (The Toronto Star) about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future. In Shock Induction, the best and brightest students at a seemingly reputable high school are disappearing. Every day it seems another overachiever is lost to an apparent suicide. But something far more sinister is lurking beneath the surface. These kids have been under surveillance since birth, monitored and measured by an online service called “Greener Pastures.” It’s here, in Greener Pastures, that billionaires observe and recruit the next generation of talent. The highest test scores, the best grades, and the most niche extracurriculars just might land these teenagers an enticing offer at auction. A couple of billion dollars in exchange for the remainder of your life and intellectual labor sounds like a pretty fair deal—doesn’t it? In a high school only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine, students must choose between the risk of following their dreams and the financial security of a lifetime of servitude to the world’s wealthiest and most elite—but how much of a choice do they truly have? A thrilling tale and a critique of modern society, Shock Induction challenges the illusion of choice and explores the tough choices individuals make in the shadow of power and privilege.

Shock Induction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. 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 anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest. “A harrowing and hilarious glimpse into the future of civilization.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Lullaby

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, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.

Rant

Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on the world...

Fight Club

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire “equal parts saccharine caricature and startling raunch” (Kirkus Reviews) about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over. Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers who grew up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoyed watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather…and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it’s not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First, there is the matter of the veritable cavalcade of escaped convicts that keep showing up at their door. Not to mention the debaucherous new tutor who has a penchant for speaking Greek and dismembering sex dolls. Then there’s Mummy’s burgeoning opioid addiction. And who knows where Daddy is. He just vanished one day after he and Mummy took a walk in the so-called “Ghost Forest.” With Grandfather putting pressure on Otto to step up, it becomes clear that this will all end in only two ways: a nuclear apocalypse or just another day among the creeping thistle and tree peonies. And in a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, either are equally possible.

Not Forever, But For Now

New York Times Bestseller Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class men dream of burying the elites. Adjustment Day’s arrival makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval. … Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift."—Seattle Times

Adjustment Day

From the author of Fight Club, comes a dark, hilarious, and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil. Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school for Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably of a marijuana overdose. The last thing she remembers is getting into a town car and falling asleep. Then she’s waking up in Hell. Literally. Madison soon finds herself sharing a cell with a motley crew of young sinners: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, all united by their doomed fate, like a Breakfast Club of the damned. Together they form an odd coalition and march across the unspeakable landscape of Hell—full of used diapers, dandruff, WiFi blackout spots, evil historical figures, and one horrific call center—to confront the Devil himself. “Brilliant. … Palahniuk’s descriptions of hell are inspired, crafted with great comic flair. … A winning and funny book.”—The Washington Post

Damned

Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a law firm with no love life. So it comes as a shock when she’s invited to dinner by C. Linus Maxwell, a mega-billionaire. After dinner, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris where Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the development of new sex toys. So effective are these devices that women lock themselves in their room and stop coming out...

In Zombies, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display as the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze - electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant; this story represents everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.

Zombies

Chuck Palahniuk, literature’s favorite transgressive author, gives us twenty-one stories and one novella in Make Something Up, a compilation that disturbs and delights in equal measure. In “Expedition,” fans will be thrilled to find to see a side of Tyler Durden never seen before in a precursor story to Fight Club. And in other stories, the absurdity of both life and death are on full display: in “Zombies,” the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze—electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators; in “Knock, Knock,” a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments; and in “Tunnel of Love,” a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing “relief” to dying clients. Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant, these stories represent everything readers have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk. You’ll never forget them. Just try.

Make Something Up

Welcome to Purgatory. Chuck Palahniuk style. After a botched Halloween ritual, Madison Spencer, the snarkiest dead girl in the universe, finds herself trapped in Purgatory, otherwise known as Earth. The upside: she is no longer subject to physical limitations (she can pass through doors and walls). The downside: well, she’s still dead. Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she runs into her grandmother’s ghost. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months, her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. And as it turns out, Madison and her parents have always been key elements of Satan’s master plan—Doomsday. “With his love of contemporary fairy tales that are gritty and dirty rather than pretty, Palahniuk is the likeliest inheritor of Vonnegut’s place in American writing.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Doomed

A gang of adolescent terrorists, a spelling bee, and a terrible plan masquerading as a science project: This is Operation Havoc. Pygmy is one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the US disguised as exchange students. Living with American families to blend in, they are planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism that will bring this big dumb country and its fat dumb inhabitants to their knees. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this indoctrinated little killer in a cunning double-edged satire of American xenophobia. “A cunning mix of advertising copy, leftist sloganeering and teen slang. … Pygmy is a dish for those who like their satire well done. And without apology.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Pygmy

First there was the insomnia. Then there were the support groups that helped him sleep. Then Marla Singer turned up, muscled in on ascending bowel cancer and ruined everything. Then he met Tyler Durden. Then came Fight Club. Fight Club is the psychological story of a man's descent into an underground world of violence. Mild mannered product-recall-specialist by day, tortured insomniac by night, our narrator meets Tyler Durden - part-time projectionist, banquet waiter, soap-maker and anarchic genius. Together they create Fight Club. In Fight Club our narrator, and men like him, can escape the monotony of their daily work-dominated, consumer-driven, image-obsessed lives. In Fight Club you can escape who the world thinks you ought to be. Soon there are Fight Clubs in basement bars in towns and cities across the country; men with cuts, bruises, stitches, missing teeth wherever you look, and Tyler Durden has become an urban legend. But when Tyler invents Project Mayhem and things begin to escalate, there's only one thing to do: shut down Fight Club. But have they created a monster they can't control? Chuck Palahniuk's visceral and unflinching cult novel stars Patrick Kennedy, Sam Hazeldine and Elaine Cassidy. Cast: The Narrator...Patrick Kennedy Tyler Durden...Sam Hazeldine Marla Singer... Elaine Cassidy Big Bob...Martin Sherman Doctor/Boss...Nigel Whitmey Recruit One...Danny Mahoney Mechanic...John Schwab Ted...Sam Dale Glenda...Jane Slavin Chloe...Ayesha Antoine Dramatised by Tracey Malone and Ed Whitmore Produced by Heather Larmour

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk, read by Christopher Ragland. People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel in four years, he does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new Disunited States of America. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

A great collection of stories from the author of Fight Club. In 'Zombies', the best and brightest of a high school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. While in 'Tunnel of Love', a massage therapist runs the curious practice of providing 'relief' to dying clients. And in 'Excursion', Fight Club fans will be thrilled to find a side of Tyler Durden never seen before.

Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. But before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah. Unpredictable and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak: a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world.

Survivor

Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic genius. And it's only the beginning of his plans for revenge on the world...

Grotesk, obszön, faszinierend. Geschichten wie Offenbarungen. Du kannst sie nie mehr vergessen … Durch die Romanvorlage von FIGHT CLUB wurde Chuck Palahniuk weltberühmt. JETZT BIST DU DRAN! präsentiert 22 Meisterwerke seiner Erzählkunst. Es geht um die geldgeile Gesellschaft, Selbstverstümmelung, Drogen, Geschlechtsverkehr mit neuen Lebensformen und um andere Unkeuschheiten. Fans des Kultautors werden entzückt sein. Und sollte es noch Leser geben, die ihn nicht kennen, seien sie ausdrücklich gewarnt: Chuck Palahniuk schrieb einige der verstörendsten Bücher aller Zeiten. Ihn zu lesen erweitert das Bewusstsein. Wienerin: »Palahniuk ist ein Genie!« San Francisco Chronicle Book Review: »Falls jemand Kurt Vonnegut den Rang in der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur ablaufen kann, dann ist es Chuck Palahniuk.« Sonntagszeitung: »Mit lakonischer Schärfe knöpft sich Palahniuk thematisch immer wieder aufs Neue die Familie vor und spiegelt in ihr die Verwerfungen der amerikanischen Gesellschaft. Konsequenterweise nannte ein Kritiker Palahniuk den ›Leichenbeschauer des 20. Jahrhunderts‹, seine Romane ›Autopsieberichte einer an Übersättigung verendeten Kultur‹. Kollegen wie Bret Easton Ellis trauen ihm sogar die Nachfolge von Ikonen wie Thomas Pynchon und Don DeLillo zu.« FESTA MUST READ: Große Erzähler ohne Tabus. Muss man gelesen haben. FESTA MUST READ erscheinen als Hardcover mit Leseband und einem Schutzumschlag in der Festa-Lederoptik (robust und bibliophil).

Jetzt bist Du dran!

Ein Lächeln ist deine beste kugelsichere Weste. Um die Kontrolle nicht zu verlieren, führen machtgeile Politiker die Welt an den Rand eines dritten Weltkrieges. Und die Medien lügen dem Volk eine heile Welt vor. Aber in Wahrheit bietet sich den Menschen nur eine trostlose Zukunft. Doch immer mehr lesen ein mysteriöses Buch und lernen seine Anweisungen auswendig. Sie sind bereit, sich von den Eliten zu befreien. Der Tag der Abrechnung ist nahe … Es gibt keinen Gott, keinen Himmel und keine Hölle. Es gibt nur deinen Sohn und dessen Sohn und dessen Sohn und die Welt, die du ihnen hinterlässt. Hart, brutal und sozialkritisch. Als hätte Palahniuk seinen berühmten Fight Club mit The Purge und 1984 gemixt. Vice: 'Ein Roman, der sowohl das Schreckliche als auch das Absurde des heutigen Amerikas offenbart.' National Public Radio: 'Ein schneller, entsetzlicher Abstieg in Wahnsinn und Mord, wunderschön in seinem psychotischen Aufbau.' Kerry Shaw, Goodreads: 'Brutal, voller Energie und zutiefst verstörend. Alles, was man von dem Fight Club-Autor auch erwartet.' Booklist: 'Visionär und mutig … Vielleicht Palahniuks dunkelste, bissigste Satire bis heute … Rasierklingenscharfe Einsichten und eine grenzenlose Vorstellungskraft …' Kirkus Reviews: 'Ein dystopischer Albtraum, der alle Risse unserer modernen Gesellschaft aufnimmt und zu einem perversen Höhepunkt steigert.' FESTA MUST READ: Große Erzähler ohne Tabus. Muss man gelesen haben.

Adjustment Day – Tag der Abrechnung

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