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24 alternatives to Tollbooth

Totally insane story about a Jersey tollbooth worker.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tollbooth launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Hourly Billing Is Nuts▲103
Essays on the insanity of trading time for money
2016 · its alternatives →
2
Boo Hoo▲78
A dot.com story from concept to catastrophe
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Waiter Rant▲56
Confessions of a cynical waiter
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York▲62
Amazing detail on the level of impact one man had on NYC.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Everything Is Bullshit▲86
A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · priceonomics.com · its alternatives →
6
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story▲70
The Arnold's autobiography
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
Chaos Monkeys▲74
Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
Jacked▲71
The outlaw story of Grand Theft Auto
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
The Frackers▲57
The outrageous story of the new billionaire wildcatters
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
10
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography▲66
Autobio from one of the first New York punks
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
11
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell▲65
Fratire stories from Tucker Max's days as an asshole
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
An Inaccurate History of Advertising▲74
The industry's heaviest hitters weigh in, kind of
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13
When To Rob a Bank▲165
New book from the authors of Freakonomics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Rebooting Work▲82
Transform how you work (written by a Silicon Valley legend)
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
The Braindead Megaphone▲68
Hilarious short stories displaying the strangeness of life
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
Chaos Monkeys▲94
Obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
17
The Ice Man▲80
Confessions of a Mafia contract killer
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
18
The Count of Monte Cristo▲69
"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang"
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
19
The Heroin Diaries▲66
A year in the life of a shattered rock star
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
20
Cryptonomicon▲65
The best book about adventures and crypto-currency.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Dark Money▲67
The hidden history of the billionaires behind...
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
22
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great▲63
Steve Jobs' life story as a graphic novel.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
Bleeding Ink- 14: V.E. Schwab▲52
NYT bestselling author talks writing and success.
2016 · its alternatives →
24
Valley of the Gods▲65
A Silicon Valley story
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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