Interesting Jobs Nonfiction
1. 
Waiter to the Rich and Shameless: Confessions of a Five-Star Beverly Hills Server
by:
Paul Hartford
3.51 avg rating — 2,713 ratings 2. 
Minding the Manor: The Memoir Of A 1930S English Kitchen Maid
by:
Mollie Moran
4.25 avg rating — 2,837 ratings 
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Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
by:
Jacob Tomsky
3.58 avg rating — 22,946 ratings 7. 
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
by:
James Herriot
4.35 avg rating — 155,355 ratings 8. 
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by:
Anthony Bourdain
4.18 avg rating — 359,825 ratings 
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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
by:
Nick Trout
3.92 avg rating — 5,644 ratings 
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
by:
Gregory Boyle
4.49 avg rating — 28,920 ratings 17. 
400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
by:
Adam Plantinga
4.01 avg rating — 1,252 ratings 18. 
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
by:
The Waiter
3.54 avg rating — 14,390 ratings 19. 
Don't Tell Mom I Work On The Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
by:
Paul Carter
3.86 avg rating — 4,419 ratings 
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The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
by:
Clea Koff
4.01 avg rating — 2,952 ratings 
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.22 avg rating — 104,614 ratings 
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My Ambulance Education: Life and Death on the Streets of the City
by:
Joseph F. Clark
3.83 avg rating — 82 ratings 
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Exposed: Confessions of a Wedding Photographer: A Memoir
by:
Claire Lewis
3.50 avg rating — 158 ratings 32. 
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
by:
Don Borchert
3.53 avg rating — 2,805 ratings 32. 
Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express 3.48 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks
by:
Andrea Lankford
4.03 avg rating — 6,224 ratings 36. 
Coffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses
by:
Trudy Baker
3.28 avg rating — 1,405 ratings 37. 
Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
by:
Vicki León
3.59 avg rating — 366 ratings 38. 
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
by:
Peter Allison
4.02 avg rating — 11,605 ratings 
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Secrets of a Tabloid Reporter...My Twenty Years on the National Enquirer's Hollywood Beat
by:
Barbara Sternig
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 41. 
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The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
by:
Finn Murphy
3.96 avg rating — 5,306 ratings 
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Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
by:
J.B. West
4.14 avg rating — 34,944 ratings 46. 
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by:
Vicki Myron
3.87 avg rating — 62,007 ratings 47. 
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
by:
Marc Parent
4.12 avg rating — 870 ratings 47. 
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Elephant Dance: A Story of Love and War in the Kingdom of Elephants
by:
Tammie Matson
3.78 avg rating — 101 ratings 
47. 
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
by:
Gina Sheridan
3.73 avg rating — 9,428 ratings 47. 
The Job Pirate: An Entertaining Tale of My Job-hopping Journey in America 3.48 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
by:
Richard Fortey
3.73 avg rating — 1,474 ratings 47. 
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country Vet
by:
Anna Birch
4.24 avg rating — 198 ratings 47. 
Over a Hot Stove: Life below stairs in Britain’s great houses: the charming memoirs of a 1930s kitchen maid
by:
Flo Wadlow
3.74 avg rating — 638 ratings 47. 
50 Jobs in 50 States: One Man's Journey of Discovery Across America (BK Life
by:
Daniel Seddiqui
3.52 avg rating — 200 ratings 47. 
Fiddle Foot and Free: Or, How I Became a Steeplejack and Why I Like It
by:
Bill Hinrichs
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics)
by:
Masanobu Fukuoka
4.34 avg rating — 8,938 ratings 59. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings 59. 
Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
by:
Tammie Matson
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 
59. 
Aerial Banner Towing (Modern Aviation Series)
by:
Alan C. Taylor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
59. 
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef 3.77 avg rating — 36,935 ratings
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How to Build a Robot Army: Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies
by:
Daniel H. Wilson
3.67 avg rating — 278 ratings 
69. 
Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner
by:
Donald A. Cabana
4.01 avg rating — 96 ratings 69. 
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by:
Timothy Pachirat
4.31 avg rating — 518 ratings 
69. 
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by:
Studs Terkel
4.24 avg rating — 5,742 ratings 69. 
A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History
by:
Tim Grove
3.65 avg rating — 83 ratings 69. 
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Snakes alive!: Snake experts & antidote sellers of Australia
by:
John Cann
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
69. 
Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives 4.30 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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Confessions of a Qantas Flight Attendant: True Tales and Gossip from the Galley
by:
Owen Beddall
3.33 avg rating — 455 ratings 81. 
Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
by:
Theresa Amato
4.06 avg rating — 47 ratings 
81. 
I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom 3.61 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants
by:
Alison Maloney
3.35 avg rating — 3,583 ratings 
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Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
by:
Gabriel Thompson
3.97 avg rating — 712 ratings 89. 
For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (Castle Lectures Series) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Flick and I: The heydey of movies when the theaters were palaces and the manager was king
by:
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
by:
Siobhan Darrow
3.67 avg rating — 64 ratings 98. 
The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind 3.95 avg rating — 2,472 ratings