Workers or the Workplace

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Updated June 30, 2026
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Workers or the Workplace

Participating in Summer Books & Bites Bingo? Try these books about workers and the workplace!

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Tender is the flesh : a novel
Bazterrica, Agustina María
Paper Book
THE RUNAWAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL SENSATION Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans--though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries...
The personal assistant
Belle, Kimberly
Paper Book
" USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the dark side of the digital world when a mommy-blogger's assistant goes missing. When Alex first began posting unscripted family moments and...
Rednecks
Brown, Taylor
Paper Book
Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction An NPR Best Book of 2024 An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2024 Co-winner of the 2024 Weatherford Award in Fiction Audie Award for Best Fiction A historical drama based on the...
The circle : a novel
Eggers, Dave
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives--a "compulsively readable parable for the 21st century" (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle,...
American psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton
Paper Book
One of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is a multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic - a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature. With an introduction by...
Villa Coco
Greer, Andrew Sean
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, showcases his wit, sophistication, and deep knowledge of focaccia in this tale of a young man who takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the...
By the book
Guillory, Jasmine
Paper Book
From New York Times best-selling author Jasmine Guillory comes the much-anticipated second book in the Meant to Be collection inspired by the classic fairy tale stories we all know and love, perfect for adult readers who crave contemporary, escapist rom-coms. ...
Love, theoretically
Hazelwood, Ali
Paper Book
The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as...
Severance
Ma, Ling
Ebook
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine: her work, watching movies with her boyfriend, avoiding thoughts of her recently deceased Chinese immigrant parents. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps the world.<...
Convenience store woman
Murata, Sayaka
Paper Book
The surprise smash hit - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
On rotation
Obuobi, Shirlene
Paper Book
'Sexy, fun and smart' BETH O'LEARY, author of THE FLATSHARE 'I couldn't put down On Rotation, and you won't be able to, either... I personally couldn't get enough' MEG CABOT Angie has checked off all the boxes for the Perfect Immigrant...
The jungle
Sinclair, Upton
Paper Book
Part of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of The Jungle features the complete text of the first (1906) edition. An introduction by Kenneth W. Warren discusses the novel's biographical and historical contexts, its literary merits, and its successes (and shortcomings) in...
Romantic comedy : a novel
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * A comedy writer thinks she's sworn off love, until a dreamy pop star flips the script on all her assumptions--a "smart, sophisticated, and fun" (Oprah Daily) novel from the author of Eligible, Rodham, and Prep....
The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck, John
Paper Book
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in...
Cleaner
Wells, Brandi
Paper Book
'Razor-sharp . . . Biting and compulsive' GRAZIA I clean the offices and bathrooms and lobby five nights a week, but my actual job is to take care of everyone. They need so much help. At night, in a corporate office block in an unnamed...
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