Top Ten Tuesday is a bookish meme originally created by The Broke and the Bookish and currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The topic for this week is books with occupations in the title (e.g. a book named “Doctor on Call” or “A Teacher’s Day At Work”).
This was surprisingly hard to find! I found lots of job locations but not a lot of job titles (e.g. “library” but not “librarian”). I’ve decided to do half TBR books and half read books to make it a bit easier, but you’ll probably see that I didn’t have a ton to work with.
(Also, I noticed that I accidentally put my July wrap up featured image on my August wrap up that I posted yesterday…. I have since fixed, hopefully people will not think it’s out of date anymore. Cri.)
Read books




- The Royal Tutor Volume 1 by Higasa Akai
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
TBR books






- Teachers of the Inner Chambers by Dorothy Ko
- The Botanist’s Daughter by Kayte Nunn
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
(“Sea women” is a literal translation of haenyeo, a job specific to Jeju Island that involves free diving to harvest mollusks, seaweed etc.) - The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
- The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Have you read any of these books? If so, what did you think?
Do any of your favourite books have occupations in the title?
Keira x

