Best Workplace Fiction

1

The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

34,437 members

1,539 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: kageeh, dara85, KimarieBee, DetailMuse, ahef1963, billybudd33

2

Bartleby, the Scrivener

by Herman Melville

3,465 members

124 reviews

3.9

6 Members: lahochstetler, DetailMuse, thorold, DorsVenabili, ahef1963, billybudd33

3

Murder Must Advertise

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,145 members

113 reviews

4.2

4 Members: thorold, aulsmith, souloftherose, ahef1963

4

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,783 members

229 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: kageeh, smcwl, ManWithAnAgenda

5

Germinal

by Émile Zola

6,163 members

91 reviews

4.2

3 Members: thorold, DorsVenabili, Dilara86

6

The Housekeeper and the Professor

by Yoko Ogawa

3,952 members

251 reviews

4

3 Members: KimarieBee, DetailMuse, Dilara86

7

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

44,532 members

581 reviews

4.1

3 Members: DetailMuse, aulsmith, ahef1963

8

Nice Work

by David Lodge

1,946 members

23 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

8,498 members

161 reviews

3.2

3 Members: kageeh, lahochstetler, DetailMuse

10

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland

5,691 members

64 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: JGKC, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Last Night at the Lobster

by Stewart O'Nan

1,472 members

134 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kageeh, DetailMuse

12

Miss Lonelyhearts

by Nathanael West

714 members

31 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: DorsVenabili, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Imperfectionists

by Tom Rachman

4,021 members

230 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: DetailMuse, ahef1963

14

Cutting for Stone

by Abraham Verghese

10,614 members

567 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: kageeh, DetailMuse

15

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

by Robert Tressell

1,803 members

42 reviews

4

2 Members: thorold, Dilara86
Explanations: thorold: Painters and decorators in the early 20th century

16

Original Sin

by P. D. James

3,234 members

46 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: lahochstetler, ahef1963

17

A Far Cry from Kensington

by Muriel Spark

1,430 members

61 reviews

3.9

2 Members: lahochstetler, thorold

18

The Diary of a Nobody

by George Grossmith

3,622 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963

19

The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

19,271 members

526 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

Empire Falls

by Richard Russo

9,254 members

191 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

10,470 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thorold, ahef1963
Explanations: thorold: Most famous literary account of the artificial-limb industry

22

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

39,335 members

523 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

23

Horrorstör

by Grady Hendrix

3,420 members

240 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: andomck

24

The Tenth Justice

by Brad Meltzer

1,303 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

25

On The Line

by Harvey Swados

40 members

3.2

Member: DorsVenabili

26

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

13,368 members

147 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

Children of My Heart

by Gabrielle Roy

220 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: lahochstetler

28

Minute for Murder

by Nicholas Blake

169 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

29

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett

13,051 members

232 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

Transmission

by Hari Kunzru

824 members

26 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: Dilara86

31

Border Songs

by Jim Lynch

518 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: DetailMuse

32

Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse

by Helen Wells

232 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

33

Het bureau

by J. J. Voskuil

134 members

½ 4.3

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

487 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: DorsVenabili

35

The Waitress Was New

by Dominique Fabre

177 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: DetailMuse

36

Plum Rains

by Andromeda Romano-Lax

165 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

2,031 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

Silent Partner

by Stephen Frey

217 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kageeh

39

Rising Sun

by Michael Crichton

5,993 members

56 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ahef1963

40

The Busconductor Hines

by James Kelman

247 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: A man who really hates his job

41

The Incident Report

by Martha Baillie

143 members

15 reviews

3.9

Member: DetailMuse

42

Kipps

by H. G. Wells

587 members

14 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Drudgery behind the counter in retail

43

My Man Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse

2,475 members

124 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

44

Psmith in the City

by P. G. Wodehouse

1,072 members

28 reviews

4.1

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: The life of a bank clerk, ca.1900

45

The Dyehouse

by Mena Calthorpe

23 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: classic Australian industrial fiction from the sixties

46

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

by Steven Millhauser

1,807 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ahef1963

47

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

by B. S. Johnson

552 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: The narrator works in the office of a confectionery firm in Hammersmith

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