Make Something Up

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Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
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First edition
Author Chuck Palahniuk
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Short story collection
Publisher Doubleday [1]
Pages256 [1]

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread is a collection of short stories published on May 26, 2015, and written by Chuck Palahniuk. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Make Something Up ranked No. 8 on the ALA's list of the Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016, due to profanity, sexual explicitness, and being "disgusting and all around offensive." [4]

Reception

Stories

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