Books like Several People Are Typing
Gerald, who works at a public relations firm in New York, finds his consciousness trapped inside the company's Slack, and his colleagues assume he is just working from home.
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Black Buck
Darren Vender, a twenty-two-year-old barista in a Manhattan Starbucks, is talked into joining a tech startup's sales team by its chief executive, and becomes the only Black salesman in the building.
Microserfs
Dan, a bug tester at Microsoft in 1993, keeps a diary on his computer about the coders he shares a house with, whose lives are their work, until they leave Redmond for Silicon Valley to build a product of their own.
Horrorstör
Strange damage keeps turning up in the mornings at the Cleveland branch of Orsk, a Scandinavian-style furniture superstore, so a few employees agree to spend a night shift in the showroom to find out why.
Earth Angel
Cash's first book, interlinked stories in which rebellious schoolgirls, internet strangers and a biblical plague of talking frogs turn up in a world that is absurd and knows it.
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Margo, a twenty-year-old community college student in Southern California, gets pregnant by her English professor and decides to keep the baby, and broke and out of options, she starts an OnlyFans account with help from her father, a former pro wrestler.
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Thomas, a troubled man in his thirties, chains a former classmate turned astronaut in an abandoned military base on the Pacific coast, then brings in more captives one by one, a congressman, a teacher, a policeman, his own mother, demanding answers, in a novel told entirely in dialogue.
The Broom of the System
A Cleveland switchboard operator searches for her great-grandmother, who has vanished from a nursing home with several other residents, while her boss courts her and her cockatiel starts preaching.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
A stockbroker is woken at 4 AM by a phone call and must navigate a surreal night of psychics, homeless prophets, and the stock market's metaphysical underpinnings.
Mantissa
A novelist confined to a hospital bed is attended by a muse who transforms into different women, in Fowles' most experimental and playful novel.
No One Is Talking About This
A poet's life is split between a pre-internet childhood and the social media hellscape of the present, told in fragments that capture the vertigo of the timeline.
Franny and Zooey
A college student in the middle of a spiritual breakdown retreats to her family's Manhattan apartment, and her actor brother tries to talk her back into the world.
Treasure Island!!!
A directionless young woman who works at a pet-lending store reads Treasure Island and resolves to live by its core values of boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing, which goes badly for everyone around her, parrot included.