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Loved Company by Max Barry? Here are 8 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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  1. 1Catch-22

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    A satire of bureaucratic absurdity in which rules and paperwork trap the people who must follow them.

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  2. 2Player Piano

    Player Piano

    Kurt Vonnegut

    A dystopian novel about managers, machines and a corporate-run society that has lost sight of its workers.

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  3. 3The Circle

    The Circle

    Dave Eggers

    A satire of a powerful technology company whose corporate culture and mission slowly take over its employee's life.

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  4. 4Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell

    A bleak novel about an all-powerful organisation that controls language and thought, showing how jargon can serve power.

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  5. 5Brave New World

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

    A satirical dystopia in which a stable, comfortable society is organised around efficiency and consumption.

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  6. 6Snow Crash

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    A fast-moving satire of corporate power and technology that mixes sharp comedy with a larger political argument.

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  7. 7A Confederacy of Dunces

    A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole

    A comic novel about a self-absorbed misfit whose absurd encounters expose the pretensions of the people around him.

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  8. 8The Sellout

    The Sellout

    Paul Beatty

    A satirical novel that takes on social hierarchies and institutions with a sharp, unsparing comic voice.

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