New literary narratives have also examined new emotional aspects of digital life and work in digital societies. Burnout and stress are two key emotions that have been associated with new digital practices in personal life and in the workplace. In this chapter, I examine what I am calling Narratives of Burnout in recent novels. The chapter will examine thematic readings that examine how contemporary writers describe the personal, phenomenological, and political aspects of the burnout society for their characters. These readings extend the exploration of digitality into new narrative forms by focusing on formal advances in the narratives in the context of recent social materialist theories of society. The new narrative forms and aspects examined include: capture capitalism and algorithmic rationality in the context of what Byung-Chul Han describes as the burnout society.