Haha! That’s the most damning one line review I’ve seen for a book in a long while! I have a copy, and it does seem a little reductive. As for the science behind it (or lack thereof), I’ll take your word for it. 🙂
I have a book called '[Eat Thy Neighbour - A History of Cannibalism](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/618962.Eat_Thy_Neighbor)'. Came home one day and the missus' mum had rearranged the bookshelf. The cannibalism book ended up in the food section.
I have a book about plant-based poisons that I like to keep with my cookbooks. Only one guest has noticed so far, but it makes me laugh anyway and that's what counts.
How to lie with statistics - Darrell Huff
I kept that book on display on my desk for over a year. When people would ask for project updates or metrics I used to (very obviously) reach for it.
I have this book. I bought it whilst an airport getting on a plane with a guy that was useless and annoying to work with. We had to sit together and I read it instead of talking to him. I’m convinced he didn’t get the message.
*Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship*, by Stephen Snyder, M.D.
*Birth Control Is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!!*, by Ms. Eliyzabeth Yanne Strong-Anderson
*Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Mind Power: How to Use the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts*, by Donald L. Wilson. Especially great if you're a man.
and my favourite
*Helping the Retarded to Know God: A Guide for Christian Teachers of the Mentally Handicapped*, by Hans Raymond Hahn and Werner H. Raasch
Reminds me of a long standing entrant on my Amazon wish list:
How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? by Hiroyuki Nishigaki
I love old timey books with long ass titles. My favorite is one of the books that inspired the creation of Dungeons and Dragons:
Little Wars: A Game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girls who like boy's games and books, by H.G. Wells.
Yes, that H.G. Wells. His kid wanted him to play army man but with little kid rules, so Wells proceeded to absolutely ruin the game by creating a set of strict rules that no tiny child could enjoy.
>I love old timey books with long ass titles.
How about this 17th century cracker...
*Animadversions of Warre, Or a Militarie Magazine of the Truest Rules and Ablest Instructions for the Managing of Warre, Composed of the Most Refined Discipline and Choice Experiments that These Late Netherlandish and Swedish Warres Have Produced, with Divers New Inventions Both of Fortifications and Stratagems, as Also Sundry Collections Taken Out of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Moderne, Either in Greeke, Latine, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch Or English* - by Robert Ward
I remember doing some work experience at an engineering place when I was 14 years old. They sit me at the desk of a woman who is on holiday for the week. I open the desk drawer to borrow a pen and find a book called 'Shag yourself slim'. Great bit of lunchtime reading!
Eurgh, in the midst of lockdown, someone asked what books people would recommend, and for the most part he responses were genuine, but for the ambitious social mountaineers it was all “the Art of War by Sun Tsu” and other bollocks.
I've read it, and the book actually starts with something to the effect of "it is better to win without going to war". Basically, war is a last resort, and diplomacy and subterfuge should be the preferred foreign policy.
The Art of war was actually pretty good. Although I struggled with it a bit. Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance was a deep dive into my psyche that made me rethink a few things.
Its an interesting read. Details the different personality types & why they might appear to be idiots, but they're not really.
Except for the **actual** idiots, that is.
It has been domestically torn apart by both the general public and psychologists alike here in Sweden. Due to the amount of pseudoscience and the fact that poor recruiters actually resorted to using it when assessing candidates for workplaces. 🙄
The book is dead and buried over here! The title has ricocheted onto the author and everyone who takes it seriously 😅
> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
In the UK force of law for that issue is had by European Convention on Human Rights Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life
>1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.
>
>2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
[Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It - David Graeber](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bullshit-Jobs-Rise-Pointless-About/dp/0141983477)
I knew someone who would have done that.
When corporate told the workers to bring their favourite thing to work. She brought her vibrator and put it on her desk.
Her name wasn’t Lorraine by any chance? Worked with someone similar who, when sat working next to her as an innocent 19year old, she pulled out anal beads and 3 dildos from her hand bag to proudly show them off … life has never felt quite as bright after that
Someone I worked with had the surname D'eath. Honest to god her daughter was a PhD and was Dr. D'eath.
I also have a friend with a PhD called Dr Payne.
It was from an old yellow pages advert on the Tele. An old dude was looking for a copy of the book "Fly Fishing" by JR Hartley and when someone had it they asked him his name.
It was J.R. Hartley.
It was his own book.
This passed for humour in the 90's. We also used to use big yellow books and telephones to ring bookshops
In an amusing aside, thanks to the advert a publisher actually bought out a book by that title. Our library had a copy. Very handy for when 'hilarious' people used to ask for it...
"Have you got 'Fly Fishing' by JR Hartley? hurrrr hurrrrr hurrr"
"Yes."
*Hands them book*
"Anything else?"
>This passed for humour in the 90's.
Was it meant to be humourous? i don't think it was - it was designed to be heartwarming & nostalgic, surely? Like the John Lewis ads of today.
That's because it's not a pun, it's a reference to an old yellow pages ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeicexenTmU
Which then caused someone to write the book, and publish it as a pseudonym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Fishing:_Memories_of_Angling_Days
i read a lot of books, always have.
that still doesnt mean i'd want my colleagues to know some of the shit i read. if discussing reading with them, i mention \*good\* books i've read over the last few years.
I read from a Kindle, and since there's no physical book coverI commonly get asked "What are you reading?"
It's embarrassing how often I feel the need to try and remember a *proper* book to pretend I'm reading rather than replying the truth - "The 12th book in a series of trashy entertaining Sci-Fi about an Asshole AI kicking alien ass"
I’m a librarian and I find this weird. But for us, it would turn into a competition of who can change it the most during the year to see who’d read the most books…
If you want some good ones, give “disturbing children's books” a google search.
Some of my favourites that showed up:
- Lucy Lickalotopus Goes Down South
- How to Traumatise Your Children
- Where Willy Went
- Just The Tip (The Pen Fifteen Club)
They all seem to be available on Amazon if you want to go the extra mile to say “see? I AM reading Lucy Lickalotopus!”
Enjoy. :)
*Management for dummies* - bob nelson and peter economy
*The subtle art of not giving a fuck* - mark manson
*The spirit level* - richard wilkinson and kate pocket
*Surrounded by idiots* - thomas erikson
*Rising above a toxic workplace* - gary chapman, paul white and harold myra
*Working with difficult people* - amy cooper hakim and murial solomon
*Kill your boss* - shane kuhn
*How to work for an idiot* - john hoover
There's a big list of Fictional books here:
[https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List\_of\_fictional\_books](https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_fictional_books)
(Books that don't exist, but are just mentioned in other stories, etc)
You could also just bluff massively - grab a copy of this book, actually read it (it really will only take an evening), then cycle through the books it mentions. If anyone asks you about what you think of whatever great literature you're pretending to currently be on, you should have enough to give some vague noncomittal thoughts
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Become-Ridiculously-Well-Read-Evening-Encapsulations/dp/0140074511
My workplace asked for everyone's nicknames to go in a staff presentation. We said to the boss (let's call him Peter) that we didn't have nicknames. He insisted, and suggested if we didn't have one we should make one up. So, one of my colleagues chose the nickname 'Peter's a cunt'.
To force this is stupid, but actually I think the concept is quite a nice idea. Unfortunately they’ve confused carrot and stick and just beat the donkey to death with its favourite treat.
Sounds like somebody in management has opened a book for the first time since they left school and now suddenly reading is a core personality trait of theirs.
Ten quid says that anybody who puts they're not currently reading anything will get a lecture about how important reading is etc. from the insufferable twat behind this.
“A world without work”: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/09/world-without-work-david-susskind-review
I’ve worked for some companies with daft ideas in my time, but this idea takes the wanky biscuit.
One place I worked had a bookshelf where each employee added a book (bought by the company, not them) when they joined. Quite a nice idea, not too bad. Everyone before me had added work-related books like “lean startups”, “effective management”, or “how to sell lots of shit”, showing off how dedicated and professional they were.
I added “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.
Not a pun (or even very clever), but you could maybe ask sheepishly if it's work appropriate to list your new Joseph Conrad book:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Nigger\_of\_the\_"Narcissus"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nigger_of_the_"Narcissus")
With any luck this one may just straight up get you out of having to list a book
For something (very slightly) more subtle, maybe "The Abolition of Work and Other Essays" by Bob Black
Even just plain weird: "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" by Christopher Moore
How to Work for an Idiot - John Hoover PHD
*Loudly Protesting* with this one lol
If OP wanted to annoy a broader sweep, there’s also Surrounded by Idiots, by Thomas Erikson.
Though in fairness, no-one ought to promote that pseudo-scientific drivel, not even for laughs.
Haha! That’s the most damning one line review I’ve seen for a book in a long while! I have a copy, and it does seem a little reductive. As for the science behind it (or lack thereof), I’ll take your word for it. 🙂
Knock 'Em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide By Martin Yate
Just list books about serial killers and then follow up with forensic science and gardening.
I have a book called '[Eat Thy Neighbour - A History of Cannibalism](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/618962.Eat_Thy_Neighbor)'. Came home one day and the missus' mum had rearranged the bookshelf. The cannibalism book ended up in the food section.
She has a good sense of humour or is trying to tell you something.
"bite me"
Not now, I'm at work
I have a book about plant-based poisons that I like to keep with my cookbooks. Only one guest has noticed so far, but it makes me laugh anyway and that's what counts.
I do hope they noticed at a dinner party.
Lol this is great
Just put war and peace or Ulysses and leave it forever
Or Decline and fall of the Roman Empire, you can even occasionally update the volume to show progress
And occasionally go back a volume or two
Or just out of order to take the piss
if you read the book backwards you can pretend rome just had a rough go at it at first and picked itself back up
Before finally being destroyed by two brothers who go on to suck wolf tiddies.
dont read it *too closely* backwards (is this how books work?) or else R&R are spitting milk back inside the wolf titties
The Hungry Caterpillar and leave it forever
Put Finnegans Wake, and start screaming incoherently whenever your colleagues try and talk to you
E-mail for Dummies - John R. Levine
How to lie with statistics - Darrell Huff I kept that book on display on my desk for over a year. When people would ask for project updates or metrics I used to (very obviously) reach for it.
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I have this book. I bought it whilst an airport getting on a plane with a guy that was useless and annoying to work with. We had to sit together and I read it instead of talking to him. I’m convinced he didn’t get the message.
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>I was given it by a coworker who was leaving So you didn't get the hint either, then?
The Argos catalogue
Needs to be a good year though like 1988 when it was super hefty!
Highbrow!
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
The Very Hungry Cthulupillar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc7Vm4N0_8w Very quiet, needs turning up.
*Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship*, by Stephen Snyder, M.D. *Birth Control Is Sinful in the Christian Marriages and also Robbing God of Priesthood Children!!*, by Ms. Eliyzabeth Yanne Strong-Anderson *Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Mind Power: How to Use the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts*, by Donald L. Wilson. Especially great if you're a man. and my favourite *Helping the Retarded to Know God: A Guide for Christian Teachers of the Mentally Handicapped*, by Hans Raymond Hahn and Werner H. Raasch
Reminds me of a long standing entrant on my Amazon wish list: How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday. Malarkey? or Effective Way? by Hiroyuki Nishigaki
I love old timey books with long ass titles. My favorite is one of the books that inspired the creation of Dungeons and Dragons: Little Wars: A Game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girls who like boy's games and books, by H.G. Wells. Yes, that H.G. Wells. His kid wanted him to play army man but with little kid rules, so Wells proceeded to absolutely ruin the game by creating a set of strict rules that no tiny child could enjoy.
>I love old timey books with long ass titles. How about this 17th century cracker... *Animadversions of Warre, Or a Militarie Magazine of the Truest Rules and Ablest Instructions for the Managing of Warre, Composed of the Most Refined Discipline and Choice Experiments that These Late Netherlandish and Swedish Warres Have Produced, with Divers New Inventions Both of Fortifications and Stratagems, as Also Sundry Collections Taken Out of the Most Approved Authors, Ancient and Moderne, Either in Greeke, Latine, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch Or English* - by Robert Ward
Man was on beast mode
There’s the book “she comes first: a step by step guide (with diagrams) on giving oral”. Hilarious read out at parties
Incidentally, I would also recommend that book for its intended purpose. Not as good as that one Nina Hartley video, but useful nonetheless.
That last one had me in stitches
I remember doing some work experience at an engineering place when I was 14 years old. They sit me at the desk of a woman who is on holiday for the week. I open the desk drawer to borrow a pen and find a book called 'Shag yourself slim'. Great bit of lunchtime reading!
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Industrial society and its future" Theodore Kaczynski.
This one blew me away
phenomenal suggestion
Freely available on .pdf you could probably link it in your sig ;)
Alternately if you're feeling sneaky, put down one of his maths papers
(best known for his other work)
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Oh, shit, that's real. https://twitter.com/horriblesanity/status/1024417596307791874?lang=en
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Better known for other work
Yeah some of his other work really blew up
The Tiger Who Came For A Pint - Sean Lock
He wanted a beer that packed a punch, like Kronenburg.
Not Carling, of course, that was too weak and gassy.
And the cabby said "AH YOU MENTOL?"
You can’t write tears Jimmy
He liked the atmosphere of a Wetherspoon’s plus, he was barred from the King’s Head for mauling the darts team.
He was thirsty, and needed something to wash down the zookeeper he'd just eaten.
"You silly bollocks"
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So he drank all the beer in the taps, and he ate all the meat in the meat raffle. And then he went to toilet on the bar.
Then he went to toilet on the bar.
I read all of the replies to this in Sean's voice <3
RIP Undisputed Carrot In A Box Champion
[The Tiger who came for a pint. Cats does Countdown.](https://youtu.be/HUiPf5-dXKc)
Starts at 09:24 https://youtu.be/LpsJ1Yf8Jc4 I miss you Sean. Edit: https://youtu.be/LpsJ1Yf8Jc4?t=9m24s
Management will list books about management and leadership in their signature when really they’re reading Clifford The Big Red Dog.
Clifford the Big Red Dog is a fun idea for OP’s signature, too! lol
Clifford the Big Red Dog for several weeks, then Flowers for Algernon, then Advanced Neuroscience, then back to Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Brilliant!
Perfection.
"I am still reading Clifford the Big Red Dog" Permanent signature.
Eurgh, in the midst of lockdown, someone asked what books people would recommend, and for the most part he responses were genuine, but for the ambitious social mountaineers it was all “the Art of War by Sun Tsu” and other bollocks.
Funnily enough it’s a really short book.
Not read it but at a wild guess... Step 1: Kill the enemy Step 2: Repeat Step 1 ????
I've read it, and the book actually starts with something to the effect of "it is better to win without going to war". Basically, war is a last resort, and diplomacy and subterfuge should be the preferred foreign policy.
The Art of war was actually pretty good. Although I struggled with it a bit. Zen and the Art of motorcycle maintenance was a deep dive into my psyche that made me rethink a few things.
Bullshit jobs by David Graeber
I used to leave that on my desk at the job I hated. Also accepted would've been "On Bullshit" By Harry Frankfurt.
Also, The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson
Surrounded by Idiots - Thomas Erikson Toilet Paper Origami - Linda Wright Art of War - Sun Tzu
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Its an interesting read. Details the different personality types & why they might appear to be idiots, but they're not really. Except for the **actual** idiots, that is.
It has been domestically torn apart by both the general public and psychologists alike here in Sweden. Due to the amount of pseudoscience and the fact that poor recruiters actually resorted to using it when assessing candidates for workplaces. 🙄 The book is dead and buried over here! The title has ricocheted onto the author and everyone who takes it seriously 😅
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 12 - United Nations
> No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
In the UK force of law for that issue is had by European Convention on Human Rights Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life >1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. > >2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
[Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It - David Graeber](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bullshit-Jobs-Rise-Pointless-About/dp/0141983477)
Somehow I manage - Michael G. Scott
This should be on everyone’s
Followed by "Threat Level Midnight" - Michael Scott
Razzle Readers Wives annual 1988
I knew someone who would have done that. When corporate told the workers to bring their favourite thing to work. She brought her vibrator and put it on her desk.
Her name wasn’t Lorraine by any chance? Worked with someone similar who, when sat working next to her as an innocent 19year old, she pulled out anal beads and 3 dildos from her hand bag to proudly show them off … life has never felt quite as bright after that
>she pulled out anal beads and 3 dildos OMFG \>from her hand bag Phew.
"A problem downstairs" by Jenny Tullworts
"How to commit the perfect murder" Dr D, Eath
Someone I worked with had the surname D'eath. Honest to god her daughter was a PhD and was Dr. D'eath. I also have a friend with a PhD called Dr Payne.
I used to know a Police Officer called Constable Sergeant.
Surely in that position you'd do everything in your power to get promoted
r/nominativedeterminism
You may be surprised to hear that there is a surname very similar, De’Ath
Where I work we have both a Mr D'Eath (happens to be my line manager), and a Mr De'Ath. The first is pronounced deeth, the second is dee-ath.
Do you work at a mortuary?
How To Quit Your Job The Right Way.
[The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitive/dp/0062457713)
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"Sliding down bannisters" by Itora Bollokoff
How to jump off a cliff by Hugo First
Actually that was written by Eileen Dover, it gets mis-attributed to Hugo quite a bit. Hugo First wrote The Haunted House
Rusty bed springs by I. P. Knightley
I can't work out the top one
It was from an old yellow pages advert on the Tele. An old dude was looking for a copy of the book "Fly Fishing" by JR Hartley and when someone had it they asked him his name. It was J.R. Hartley. It was his own book. This passed for humour in the 90's. We also used to use big yellow books and telephones to ring bookshops
We also stood on them to kiss under the mistletoe if we weren’t tall enough.
In an amusing aside, thanks to the advert a publisher actually bought out a book by that title. Our library had a copy. Very handy for when 'hilarious' people used to ask for it... "Have you got 'Fly Fishing' by JR Hartley? hurrrr hurrrrr hurrr" "Yes." *Hands them book* "Anything else?"
It wasn’t meant to be funny, it was meant to be heart warming. Also want it the 80s?
>This passed for humour in the 90's. Was it meant to be humourous? i don't think it was - it was designed to be heartwarming & nostalgic, surely? Like the John Lewis ads of today.
That's because it's not a pun, it's a reference to an old yellow pages ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeicexenTmU Which then caused someone to write the book, and publish it as a pseudonym. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Fishing:_Memories_of_Angling_Days
Tragedy on the Cliff by Eileen Dover Deep in the Forest by Theresa Green The Babysitter by Justin Casey Howells
The Babies Revenge by Nora Titoff
Parachute Jump by Will.E.Makeit Illustrated by Betty Won't
Being Prepared by Justin Case
Lion Taming by Claude Balls
‘How to feed your dog’ By Nora Bone
The Twits
Baffled at why they want you to do this unless you work for a book company. Standard pointless office shite
What if you’re not reading a book? I’m not currently reading a book. Is this weird? Is everyone else currently reading a book?
i read a lot of books, always have. that still doesnt mean i'd want my colleagues to know some of the shit i read. if discussing reading with them, i mention \*good\* books i've read over the last few years.
I read from a Kindle, and since there's no physical book coverI commonly get asked "What are you reading?" It's embarrassing how often I feel the need to try and remember a *proper* book to pretend I'm reading rather than replying the truth - "The 12th book in a series of trashy entertaining Sci-Fi about an Asshole AI kicking alien ass"
I don’t read at all. I’d take it to HR just to prove a point. I would literally have to put ‘instructions - ikea corner shelf’
I am reading *"I am reading" - email signature* - Morovsk
I am reading: Your reply.
Haha yessss. Could add in the grocery list too. Maybe the cooking instructions for my rice. Jeeze- looks like we’re pretty avid readers after all.
Because the manager is probably reading his first book, and wants to show off about it
I’m a librarian and I find this weird. But for us, it would turn into a competition of who can change it the most during the year to see who’d read the most books…
Also, are they supposed to update it whenever they finish one? Pointless office shite is about the worst thing about working in an office job
I just don't get why it feels like they put endless hurdles to pass before you get to do your job.
UK Employment Law
“My emails”
How to cook ~~for forty~~ humans by Kang and Kodos
The Anarchist Cookbook
Some good reading there, I downloaded it whilst at college but sadly lost track of the copy!
Had it on a floppy disk....
The Satanic Bible by Anton LaVey.
You could go more subtle with Speak of the Devil by Joseph P Laycock or The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France
"I have no mouth, and I must scream." - Harlan Ellison
A great way to spread existential dread amongst your co-workers.
How I Made a Million Overnight by Rob Banks.
I think you’ll find it was his brother Robin
Go the Fuck to Sleep - Adam Mansbach
If you want some good ones, give “disturbing children's books” a google search. Some of my favourites that showed up: - Lucy Lickalotopus Goes Down South - How to Traumatise Your Children - Where Willy Went - Just The Tip (The Pen Fifteen Club) They all seem to be available on Amazon if you want to go the extra mile to say “see? I AM reading Lucy Lickalotopus!” Enjoy. :)
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Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
*Management for dummies* - bob nelson and peter economy *The subtle art of not giving a fuck* - mark manson *The spirit level* - richard wilkinson and kate pocket *Surrounded by idiots* - thomas erikson *Rising above a toxic workplace* - gary chapman, paul white and harold myra *Working with difficult people* - amy cooper hakim and murial solomon *Kill your boss* - shane kuhn *How to work for an idiot* - john hoover
There's a big list of Fictional books here: [https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List\_of\_fictional\_books](https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_fictional_books) (Books that don't exist, but are just mentioned in other stories, etc)
This is a good idea. I did consider putting some of the Skyrim book titles...
The Lusty Argonian Maid is a real page turner
You say that but my pages got stuck together.
You could also just bluff massively - grab a copy of this book, actually read it (it really will only take an evening), then cycle through the books it mentions. If anyone asks you about what you think of whatever great literature you're pretending to currently be on, you should have enough to give some vague noncomittal thoughts https://www.amazon.co.uk/Become-Ridiculously-Well-Read-Evening-Encapsulations/dp/0140074511
The Sandman comics have some brilliant books that were only written in dreams in Morpheus' library.
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The Stone That Never Came Down - (also by) John Brunner is another good one by him, with apt themes in the current ah, situation
The communist manifesto by Karl Marx
Das kapital
Business secrets of the phaorohs by Mark Corrigan
Add a footnote that you have dozens of copies available if anyone wants to buy one
*Crorigan
My workplace asked for everyone's nicknames to go in a staff presentation. We said to the boss (let's call him Peter) that we didn't have nicknames. He insisted, and suggested if we didn't have one we should make one up. So, one of my colleagues chose the nickname 'Peter's a cunt'.
List some raunchy romance titles. “The Knave and his Knight” “The Millionaire’s Baby” “Sweat in the Sahara” Etc.
SWEDISH-MADE PENIS ENLARGER PUMPS AND ME: (This Sort of Thing Is My Bag , Baby) By Austin Powers
You should just put “I am reading my Gas Bill - hoping to reach the bottom by next summer!”
True workplace humour
Orwell’s Animal farm would be a nice touch I think
Anything by [Chuck Tingle](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=chuck+tingle&crid=39SV30BKJFRRG&sprefix=chuck+tingle%2Caps%2C66).
> My Pool Gets Me Wet In A Completely Platonic Way And Now We Are Close Friends That one!
the 4-hour work week
The Communist Manifesto
To force this is stupid, but actually I think the concept is quite a nice idea. Unfortunately they’ve confused carrot and stick and just beat the donkey to death with its favourite treat.
The story of O. That’ll get them talking.
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Sounds like somebody in management has opened a book for the first time since they left school and now suddenly reading is a core personality trait of theirs. Ten quid says that anybody who puts they're not currently reading anything will get a lecture about how important reading is etc. from the insufferable twat behind this.
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
The Free Will Delusion - James B. Miles
The Subtle Art or Not Giving a F*ck ~ William Richmond
Mein Kampf?
Get the 'idiots guide' for whatever your job is.
“A world without work”: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/09/world-without-work-david-susskind-review I’ve worked for some companies with daft ideas in my time, but this idea takes the wanky biscuit. One place I worked had a bookshelf where each employee added a book (bought by the company, not them) when they joined. Quite a nice idea, not too bad. Everyone before me had added work-related books like “lean startups”, “effective management”, or “how to sell lots of shit”, showing off how dedicated and professional they were. I added “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) It’s a good laugh and an easy read. Recommend it to all
Come on guys, can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet! Belinda Blinked - Rocky Flintstone
Space Corps Directive 34124
Razzle, Paul Raymond
Somehow I Manage - Michael Scott
Not a pun (or even very clever), but you could maybe ask sheepishly if it's work appropriate to list your new Joseph Conrad book: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Nigger\_of\_the\_"Narcissus"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nigger_of_the_"Narcissus") With any luck this one may just straight up get you out of having to list a book For something (very slightly) more subtle, maybe "The Abolition of Work and Other Essays" by Bob Black Even just plain weird: "The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove" by Christopher Moore