We waited three years for Severances second season, and somehow its already over. Hopefully the season 3 hiatus wont be nearly as long, but I, for one, am already mourning my weekly dose of the Apple TV Plus series.I loved knowing that every week, Id never be able to predict what was coming, and that Id be faced with provocative questions about the nature of identity, how to survive within arbitrary systems of control, the ways those in power test the limits of technology and what people can endure, and, of course, what the hell happens in the goat room. No other show does it quite like them!So, if youre like me and already thinking about ways to fill time until Severance returns, sure, there are plenty of things you can watch, but there are also plenty of things to read, too. With cryptic, corkscrewy mysteries, poignant and comical workplace satires, and a byzantine horror masterpiece, these six books will help capture some of that Severance magic.Supplemental readingA Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick if youre looking for a proto-cyberpunk novel about fractured identity, paranoia, and the inability to trust your own reality.Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin if youre looking for a story about the power of memory and the harm in erasing (and regaining) the most painful moments of your past.Hum by Helen Phillips if youre looking for an anticapitalist story about one persons fight for her family and humanitys relationship with technology in a declining world.Piranesi by Susanna Clarke if youre looking for a serpentine mystery about memory, self-reliance, and belonging.Dark Matter by Blake Crouch if youre looking for a beach-read thriller in which split identities clash across parallel universes.The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa if youre looking for a hypnotic fable about the horrors of forgetting and dangers of a totalitarian surveillance state.The Castle by Franz Kafka if youre looking for a story about the meaninglessness of bureaucracy and human longing within alienating systems.