The most popular work books of 2023

Books about work are set where most of us spend our days. Offices, factories, kitchens, hospitals and gig jobs provide the drama: ambition, boredom, difficult colleagues and the search for meaning in what we do. Novels and memoirs here are often funny and always recognisable. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.

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Kakadu Dawn
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Kakadu Dawn

Annie Seaton

Published 2023

270 pages

Near Miss
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Near Miss

C. S. Smith

Published 2023

332 pages

Mom Com
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Mom Com

Adriana Mather

Published 2023

380 pages

Labour Disrupted
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Labour Disrupted

Aisha, Janet Cherry, Andries Bezuidenhout, Christine Bischoff, Mondli Hlatshwayo, Asanda-Jonas Benya

Published 2023

336 pages

Abolition Labor
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Abolition Labor

Andrew Ross, Aiyuba Thomas, Tommaso Bardelli

2023 · 2024 edition

900 pages

Labour Disrupted
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Labour Disrupted

Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, Janet Cherry, Malehoko Tshoaedi, Andries Bezuidenhout, Christine Bischoff, Mondl

Published 2023

356 pages

Tempted By The Tycoon
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Tempted By The Tycoon

Katherine Garbera, Avril Tremayne, Miranda Lee

Published 2023

560 pages