Day 35: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Palahniuk’s novel is a tantalizing satirical examination of media culture, religion, celebrity icons, and suicide. It’s a fast-paced, provocative, and funny as all hell. Tender Branson –the last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult– is dictating his life story into a black box before the airplane crashes, from his meek subservient beginnings as a Creedish child to the drug-abusing, hypocritical, collagen-bloated mass media messiah.

Day 18: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Palahniuk is certainly one of the best living storytellers alive today, and his unique methods of crafting narratives are ingenious and experimental. Many believe this debut novel by Palahniuk to be his seminal work. It is a dark, funny, twisted character study of dissociative personality disorder. Palahniuk paints a morbid and macabre illustration of the dual nature of our souls and created one of pop culture’s greatest villains: Tyler Durden. I loved the movie. The book was even better.