Twenty Favorite Books About the Workplace
(in alphabetical order by author)
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Studies in the Hereafter by Sean Bernard
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
The Little Girl and the Cigarette by Benoît Duteurtre
The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
The Room by Jonas Karlsson
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by Herman Melville
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Last Day at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century by Olga Ravn
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
Joseph Walser’s Machine by Gonçalo M. Tavares
The Situation by Jeff VanderMeer
The Longest Day of the Future by Lucas Varela
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
— January 14, 2021