Best Workplace Fiction

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Good (and great) stories about characters at work ... where ever that may be.
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The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
31,630 members
1,497 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
kageeh, dara85, KimarieBee, DetailMuse, ahef1963, billybudd33
2
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
by Herman Melville
3,013 members
99 reviews
3.9
6 Members
lahochstetler, DetailMuse, thorold, DorsVenabili, ahef1963, billybudd33
3
Murder Must Advertise
by Dorothy L. Sayers
3,895 members
108 reviews
4.2
4 Members
thorold, aulsmith, souloftherose, ahef1963
4
Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris
4,597 members
223 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
kageeh, smcwl, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Germinal
by Émile Zola
5,573 members
82 reviews
4.2
3 Members
thorold, DorsVenabili, Dilara86
6
The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yoko Ogawa
3,473 members
226 reviews
4
3 Members
KimarieBee, DetailMuse, Dilara86
7
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
41,298 members
542 reviews
4.1
3 Members
DetailMuse, aulsmith, ahef1963
8
Nice Work
by David Lodge
1,853 members
22 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thorold, Dilara86, ahef1963
Explanations
thorold: University lecturer and foundry manager try to make sense of each other's work.
9
The Nanny Diaries
by Emma McLaughlin
8,263 members
155 reviews
3.2
3 Members
kageeh, lahochstetler, DetailMuse
10
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland
5,479 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
JGKC, ManWithAnAgenda
11
Last Night at the Lobster
by Stewart O'Nan
1,402 members
129 reviews
3.8
2 Members
kageeh, DetailMuse
12
Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
807 members
33 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
DorsVenabili, ManWithAnAgenda
13
The Imperfectionists
by Tom Rachman
3,890 members
229 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
DetailMuse, ahef1963
14
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
9,851 members
545 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
kageeh, DetailMuse
15
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
1,671 members
42 reviews
3.9
2 Members
thorold, Dilara86
Explanations
thorold: Painters and decorators in the early 20th century
16
Original Sin
by P. D. James
3,025 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
lahochstetler, ahef1963
17
A Far Cry from Kensington
by Muriel Spark
1,316 members
58 reviews
3.8
2 Members
lahochstetler, thorold
18
The Diary of a Nobody
by George Grossmith
3,381 members
95 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, ahef1963
19
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
17,080 members
481 reviews
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
20
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,958 members
186 reviews
4
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
21
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
9,816 members
102 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, ahef1963
Explanations
thorold: Most famous literary account of the artificial-limb industry
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
35,647 members
483 reviews
4.1
Member
cej1027
23
Horrorstör
by Grady Hendrix
2,582 members
201 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
andomck
24
The Tenth Justice
by Brad Meltzer
1,224 members
30 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
25
On The Line
by Harvey Swados
35 members
3.2
Member
DorsVenabili
26
The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
12,138 members
133 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
27
Children of My Heart
by Gabrielle Roy
195 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
lahochstetler
28
Minute for Murder
by Nicholas Blake
164 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
29
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
12,167 members
216 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
30
Transmission
by Hari Kunzru
789 members
25 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
31
Border Songs
by Jim Lynch
500 members
28 reviews
3.8
Member
DetailMuse
32
Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse
by Helen Wells
206 members
1 review
3.9
Member
aulsmith
33
Het bureau
by J. J. Voskuil
130 members
½ 4.4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: 5000-page paperclip-by-paperclip account of working in a small office in Amsterdam
34
Out of This Furnace
by Thomas Bell
444 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
DorsVenabili
35
The Waitress Was New
by Dominique Fabre
164 members
17 reviews
3.9
Member
DetailMuse
36
Plum Rains
by Andromeda Romano-Lax
146 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
1,696 members
61 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
38
Silent Partner
by Stephen Frey
211 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
kageeh
39
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton
5,595 members
54 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ahef1963
40
The Busconductor Hines
by James Kelman
234 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: A man who really hates his job
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The Incident Report
by Martha Baillie
135 members
15 reviews
3.8
Member
DetailMuse
42
Kipps
by H. G. Wells
531 members
13 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Drudgery behind the counter in retail
43
My Man Jeeves
by P. G. Wodehouse
2,242 members
109 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
44
Psmith in the City
by P. G. Wodehouse
1,005 members
26 reviews
4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: The life of a bank clerk, ca.1900
45
The Dyehouse
by Mena Calthorpe
19 members
2 reviews
4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: classic Australian industrial fiction from the sixties
46
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
by Steven Millhauser
1,710 members
57 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ahef1963
47
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
by B. S. Johnson
506 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: The narrator works in the office of a confectionery firm in Hammersmith