15 Nightmare Workplace Books For Fans of ‘Severance’

“The work is mysterious and important.”

After 3 long years, Severance is back for a brand new season! The TV series takes place in a near-future world where the surgical procedure called “severance” is possible. It allows office workers at the mysterious company Lumon to have separate work and personal lives. But these lives are on a collision course when Mark (Adam Scott) realises Lumon might not be a regular workplace and sets out to find the truth. The show is brilliant at portraying a capitalistic nightmare, where productivity is everything, and curiosity is killed. There’s drama, intrigue, romance, even tragedy, and I’m super invested!

Watching the show makes me want to read stories about strange workplaces, so I’ve compiled a list of books like Severance. Check them out!

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• Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke
• The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• The Warehouse by Rob Hart
• The Consultant by Bentley Little

• Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
• The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
• Lakewood by Megan Giddings
• My Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti
• The Employees by Olga Ravn

• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
• Diary of A Void by Emi Yagi
• Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee
• When She Was Bad by Tammy Cohen
• ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare edited by Eric Raglin

Do you have any recommendations for nightmare workplace books? Let me know in the comments!

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