Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel about an insomniac office drone, a soap salesman called Tyler Durden, and the underground clubs where men beat the numbness out of each other. Consumer culture, masculinity in crisis and one of the most famous twists in modern fiction, all in under 220 pages. David Fincher’s 1999 film turned it into a generational touchstone, mostly among people who missed that it was satire.