Company by Max Berry
Company ($15) is the latest novel by our new favorite contemporary satirist, Max Berry. In the 350-page work, he takes office politics and banal tasks to an extraordinarily extreme degree, but it's not so twisted from reality that it doesn't apply to your own 9-5. The story line follows naive business school grad Jones through his relatively short career at Zephyr Holdings. His first task is to find out what the company (not just his department, which only deals with other internal departments) actually does. Not only does no one know, they can't grasp why Jones would be curious. A perfect book if you enjoy The Office, Dilbert or Office Space.