
Germinal
Emile Zola
1970 · 1989 edition
789 pages
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. Only books in French are listed.

Emile Zola
1970 · 1989 edition
789 pages

Sarah Ockler
2007 · 2016 edition
308 pages

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
2012 · 2015 edition
245 pages

David Graeber
Published 2018
416 pages

David Graeber, Burak Esen
2018 · 2019 edition
447 pages

Elena Armas
2023 · 2025 edition
576 pages

Olga Ravn, Maria Rosich Andreu
2018 · 2020 edition
176 pages

Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
Published 2013
970 pages

Laurelin Paige
2013 · 2015 edition
355 pages

L. J. Shen
2018 · 2019 edition
426 pages

Nora Roberts
2013 · 2015 edition
567 pages

Julie Soto, Robert Benoit
2023 · 2025 edition
394 pages

J. M. Coetzee
1980 · 1987 edition
256 pages

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
1975 · 2014 edition
464 pages

Ken Kesey
1971 · 2020 edition
766 pages

Rachel Lynn Solomon
Published 2023
363 pages

Max Weber
1970 · 1989 edition
288 pages

Lana Ferguson
2023 · 2025 edition
412 pages

Samuel Richardson
1970 · 2022 edition
830 pages

John Steinbeck
1970 · 1972 edition
380 pages

Karl Marx
1883 · 1976 edition
318 pages

Friedrich Engels, Edward Aveling
1972 · 2018 edition
89 pages

Alexander McCall Smith
2006 · 2008 edition
250 pages

Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen, Jacqueline Odin
Published 2014
40 pages