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Books About Working and Jobs
Return to Fiction_L Booklists Menu July 2007 (To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
 NON-FICTION Albarelli, Gerry Teacha!: Stories from a Yeshiva Albert, Alexa Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women Angell, Jeannette Callgirl Balfour, Sandy Nursing America: One Year Behind the Nursing Stations of an Inner-City Hospital Bourdain, Anthony Kitchen Confidential; The Nasty Bits Bowe, John et al. (editors) Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs Brenner, Leslie Fourth Star: Dispatches from Inside Daniel Boulud's Celebrated New York Restaurant Bronson, Po What Should I Do With My Life: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question Bryan, Mike Baseball Lives: Men and Women of the Game Talk About Their Jobs, Their Lives, and the National Pastime Buford, Bill Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany Burana, Lily Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America Burau, Caroline Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat Burton, Betsy King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller Cecchini, Toby Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life Chen, Pauline Final Exam Codell, Esme Raji Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year Cody, Diablo Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper Conlon, Edward Blue Blood Conover, Ted Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Daria, Irene Lutece: A Day in the Life of America's Greatest Restaurant Durrell, Gerald How to Shoot an Amateur Naturalist; Menagerie Manor; The Ark's Anniversay; The Aye-Aye and I; other titles Dusenberry, Phil Then We Set His Hair on Fire Edwards-Jones, Imogen (and Anonymous) Hotel Babylon; Fashion Babylon; Air Babylon Ehrenreich, Barbara Bait and Switch; Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Febbroriello, Courtney Wife of the Chef Feynmann, Richard P. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann Foss, Rene Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant Gass, Thomas Edward Nobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide Gawande, Atul Complications Ginsberg, Debra Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress Grosz, Terry Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small; All Things Bright and Beautiful; All Things Wise and Wonderful; The Lord God Made Them All Hester, Elliott Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet Huyler, Frank The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine Johnson, Jennifer Getting By On the Minimum: The Lives of Working-Class Women Jordan, Pete Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes Kaplan, James Airport: Terminal Nights and Runway Days at John F. Kennedy Karesh, William B. Appointment at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian Kidder, Tracy House; Among Schoolchildren Kleinfield, Sonny The Hotel: A Week in the Life of the Plaza Kollman, Dana Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI Laurance, William Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist Lehman, Elton Housecalls and Hitching Posts: Stories from Dr. Elton Lehman's Career Among the Amish Leon, Vicki Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World Levison, Iain A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir Lynch, Thomas The Undertaking Marcus, James Amazonia McCarthy, Bill and Mike Mallowe Vice Cop: My Twenty-Year Battle with New York's Dark Side McCarthy, Claire Learning How the Heart Beats: The Making of a Pediatrician McCourt, Frank Teacher Man McPhee, John Giving Good Weight; Heirs of General Practice; Irons in the Fire; Looking for a Ship; The Headmaster; Uncommon Carriers Neimann, Linda G. Boomer: Railroad Memoirs Orr, John W. Set Up Running: The Life of a Pennsylvania Railroad Engineman, 1904--1949 Owings, Alison Hey Waitress: The USA From the Other Side of the Tray Paul, Caroline Fighting Fire Petroski, Henry The Paperboy Psaltis, Doug The Seasoning of a Chef: My Journey from Diner to Ducasse and Beyond Rafkin, Louise Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures Reavill, Gil Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up after CSI Goes Home Reichl, Ruth Garlic and Sapphires Robinson, Jeffrey Hotel: Backstairs at the World's Most Exclusive Hotel Rodriguez, Deborah Kabul Beauty School Ruhlman, Michael Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America; Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection Selzer, Richard Notes on the Art of Surgery Shea, Suzanne Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore Shipler, David K. The Working Poor: Invisible in America Snowdon, Lynn Nine Lives: From Stripper to Schoolteacher, My Year-Long Odyssey in the Workplace Snyder, Robert W. Transit Talk Stern, Jane Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself By Becoming an EMT Swope, Sam I Am a Pencil Symanski, Richard Blackhearts: Ecology in Outback Australia Taylor, David Going Wild: Adventures of a Zoo Vet; Is There a Doctor in the Zoo?; My Animal Kingdom, One by One; Vet on the Wild Side Taylor, Murray A. Jumping Fire: A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire Terkel, Studs Working Theriault, Emily R. On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency Weatherford, J. McIver Porn Row Wenzel, Ty Behind Bars: Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender Wilkinson, Alec Moonshine: A Life in Pursuit of White Lightning Wilson, Philip Drive: Six Weeks in an Eighteen-Wheeler Yancey, Richard Confessions of Tax Collector
FICTION Barry, Max Company: A Novel Bourdain, Anthony Bone in the Throat; The Bobby Gold Stories Coupland, Douglas Microserfs Ferris, Joshua Then We Came to the End Laden, Nina Roberto, the Insect Architect (juvenile) Levison, Iain Since the Layoffs McCouch, Hannah Girl Cook McLaughlin, Emma Nanny Diaries Viets, Elaine Dying to Call You; Just Murdered; Murder Between the Covers; Murder Unleashed; Murder with Reservations; Shop Til you Drop Weisberger, Lauren The Devil Wears Prada Westlake, Donald The Ax
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