Best Workplace Fiction

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Good (and great) stories about characters at work ... where ever that may be.
1
The Help
de Kathryn Stockett
29,836 membres
1,471 ressenyes
½ 4.4
5 Members
kageeh, dara85, KimarieBee, DetailMuse, ahef1963
2
Bartleby, l'escrivent : una història de Wall Street
de Herman Melville
2,782 membres
94 ressenyes
3.9
5 Members
lahochstetler, DetailMuse, thorold, DorsVenabili, ahef1963
3
Murder Must Advertise
de Dorothy L. Sayers
3,701 membres
105 ressenyes
4.2
4 Members
thorold, aulsmith, souloftherose, ahef1963
4
Then We Came to the End
de Joshua Ferris
4,466 membres
219 ressenyes
½ 3.5
3 Members
kageeh, smcwl, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Germinal
de Émile Zola
5,228 membres
77 ressenyes
4.1
3 Members
thorold, DorsVenabili, Dilara86
6
The Housekeeper and the Professor
de Yoko Ogawa
3,124 membres
215 ressenyes
4
3 Members
KimarieBee, DetailMuse, Dilara86
7
Catch-22
de Joseph Heller
39,198 membres
514 ressenyes
4.1
3 Members
DetailMuse, aulsmith, ahef1963
8
Bona feina
de David Lodge
1,784 membres
20 ressenyes
3.8
3 Members
thorold, Dilara86, ahef1963
Explicacions
thorold: University lecturer and foundry manager try to make sense of each other's work.
9
Diari d'una cangur
de Emma McLaughlin
8,062 membres
153 ressenyes
3.2
3 Members
kageeh, lahochstetler, DetailMuse
10
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
de Douglas Coupland
5,289 membres
60 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
JGKC, ManWithAnAgenda
11
Last Night at the Lobster
de Stewart O'Nan
1,342 membres
123 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
kageeh, DetailMuse
12
Senyoreta Corsolitari
de Nathanael West
749 membres
31 ressenyes
½ 3.4
2 Members
DorsVenabili, ManWithAnAgenda
13
The Imperfectionists
de Tom Rachman
3,744 membres
222 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
DetailMuse, ahef1963
14
Cutting for Stone
de Abraham Verghese
9,294 membres
525 ressenyes
½ 4.3
2 Members
kageeh, DetailMuse
15
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
de Robert Tressell
1,564 membres
39 ressenyes
4
2 Members
thorold, Dilara86
Explicacions
thorold: Painters and decorators in the early 20th century
16
Original Sin
de P. D. James
2,905 membres
39 ressenyes
½ 3.6
2 Members
lahochstetler, ahef1963
17
A Far Cry from Kensington
de Muriel Spark
1,236 membres
55 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
lahochstetler, thorold
18
The Diary of a Nobody
de George Grossmith
3,213 membres
91 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, ahef1963
19
El que resta del dia
de Kazuo Ishiguro
15,937 membres
462 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
20
Empire Falls
de Richard Russo
8,679 membres
180 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
21
Fills i amants
de D. H. Lawrence
9,352 membres
95 ressenyes
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, ahef1963
Explicacions
thorold: Most famous literary account of the artificial-limb industry
22
El raïm de la ira
de John Steinbeck
33,461 membres
460 ressenyes
4.1
Member
cej1027
23
Horrorstör
de Grady Hendrix
2,120 membres
181 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
andomck
24
The Tenth Justice
de Brad Meltzer
1,148 membres
28 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
25
On The Line
de Harvey Swados
34 membres
3.2
Member
DorsVenabili
26
The Jungle
de Upton Sinclair
11,394 membres
127 ressenyes
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
27
Children of My Heart
de Gabrielle Roy
179 membres
9 ressenyes
3.8
Member
lahochstetler
28
Minute for Murder
de Nicholas Blake
150 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
29
Going Postal
de Terry Pratchett
11,520 membres
204 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
30
Transmission
de Hari Kunzru
761 membres
25 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
31
Border Songs
de Jim Lynch
484 membres
28 ressenyes
3.8
Member
DetailMuse
32
Cherry Ames, Visiting Nurse
de Helen Wells
191 membres
1 ressenya
3.9
Member
aulsmith
33
Het bureau
de J. J. Voskuil
128 membres
½ 4.4
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: 5000-page paperclip-by-paperclip account of working in a small office in Amsterdam
34
Out of This Furnace
de Thomas Bell
426 membres
9 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
DorsVenabili
35
The Waitress Was New (Archipelago Books)
de Dominique Fabre
163 membres
17 ressenyes
3.9
Member
DetailMuse
36
Plum Rains
de Andromeda Romano-Lax
133 membres
6 ressenyes
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
37
Queenie
de Candice Carty-Williams
1,451 membres
59 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
38
Silent Partner
de Stephen Frey
205 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
kageeh
39
Rising Sun
de Michael Crichton
5,328 membres
50 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
ahef1963
40
The Busconductor Hines
de James Kelman
225 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: A man who really hates his job
41
The Incident Report
de Martha Baillie
127 membres
15 ressenyes
3.8
Member
DetailMuse
42
Kipps
de H. G. Wells
496 membres
13 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: Drudgery behind the counter in retail
43
My Man Jeeves
de P. G. Wodehouse
2,083 membres
105 ressenyes
3.8
Member
ahef1963
44
Psmith in the City
de P. G. Wodehouse
951 membres
24 ressenyes
4
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: The life of a bank clerk, ca.1900
45
The Dyehouse
de Mena Calthorpe
19 membres
2 ressenyes
3.8
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: classic Australian industrial fiction from the sixties
46
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
de Steven Millhauser
1,634 membres
55 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
ahef1963
47
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
de B. S. Johnson
474 membres
12 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: The narrator works in the office of a confectionery firm in Hammersmith