A Day in the Life: Work Memoirs

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,442 ratings
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All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2) 4.35 avg rating — 155,348 ratings
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 4.18 avg rating — 359,789 ratings
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing 3.42 avg rating — 10,422 ratings
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All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)
All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4) 4.35 avg rating — 82,188 ratings
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do 4.24 avg rating — 5,741 ratings
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,099 ratings
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All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6)
All Things Wise and Wonderful (All Creatures Great and Small, #5-6) 4.45 avg rating — 37,075 ratings
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The Lord God Made Them All
The Lord God Made Them All 4.45 avg rating — 29,427 ratings
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Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 39,641 ratings
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive 3.86 avg rating — 109,528 ratings
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science 4.28 avg rating — 51,627 ratings
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Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library 3.53 avg rating — 2,805 ratings
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter 3.54 avg rating — 14,388 ratings
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Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress 3.58 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise 3.94 avg rating — 47,446 ratings
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times 4.19 avg rating — 77,375 ratings
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Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality
Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality 3.58 avg rating — 22,945 ratings
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life 3.88 avg rating — 105,640 ratings
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade 3.87 avg rating — 3,140 ratings
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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper 3.57 avg rating — 13,656 ratings
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide 4.02 avg rating — 11,604 ratings
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Bossypants
Bossypants
by: Tina Fey
3.96 avg rating — 1,041,913 ratings
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany 3.90 avg rating — 25,084 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea 4.02 avg rating — 14,408 ratings
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within 4.21 avg rating — 31,301 ratings
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Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
by: John Bowe
4.14 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time 3.66 avg rating — 358,686 ratings
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian 3.19 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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Somebody Else's Kids
Somebody Else's Kids 4.28 avg rating — 7,094 ratings
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Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon
Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life as an Animal Surgeon 3.92 avg rating — 5,644 ratings
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81,419 ratings
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As the Matzo Ball Turns
As the Matzo Ball Turns 4.39 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 3.99 avg rating — 4,394 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner 4.26 avg rating — 26,512 ratings
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 3.96 avg rating — 8,809 ratings
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And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television 3.74 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States 3.62 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds 3.93 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
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Here If You Need Me
Here If You Need Me 4.01 avg rating — 7,229 ratings
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Below Stairs
Below Stairs 3.58 avg rating — 14,239 ratings
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Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession
Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession 4.03 avg rating — 2,487 ratings
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,856 ratings
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Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter 3.73 avg rating — 1,467 ratings
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef 3.77 avg rating — 36,932 ratings
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Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs 4.17 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line 4.01 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
48.
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea 4.12 avg rating — 117,721 ratings
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World 4.20 avg rating — 87,481 ratings
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Personal History: A Memoir
Personal History: A Memoir 4.09 avg rating — 24,448 ratings
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Living History
Living History 3.76 avg rating — 34,055 ratings
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Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat
Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat 3.68 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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Post Office
Post Office 3.93 avg rating — 135,706 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Travels with Charley: In Search of America 4.08 avg rating — 103,288 ratings
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Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women 3.71 avg rating — 1,912 ratings
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Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between 3.85 avg rating — 2,673 ratings
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake 4.04 avg rating — 61,414 ratings
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Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World
Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World 3.59 avg rating — 366 ratings
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 4.16 avg rating — 192,410 ratings
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Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout 3.97 avg rating — 4,536 ratings
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Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. 3.60 avg rating — 5,471 ratings
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This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor 4.31 avg rating — 2,405 ratings
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The Man Who Ate Everything
The Man Who Ate Everything 3.88 avg rating — 9,154 ratings
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Uncommon Carriers
Uncommon Carriers 3.97 avg rating — 2,369 ratings
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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl 4.10 avg rating — 12,464 ratings
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Population: 485
Population: 485 3.93 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
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Nurse
Nurse 3.77 avg rating — 637 ratings
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Madam Secretary
Madam Secretary 4.11 avg rating — 9,058 ratings
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Don't Eat This Book
Don't Eat This Book 3.70 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality 3.88 avg rating — 3,358 ratings
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Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier
Beware of Cat: And Other Encounters of a Letter Carrier 3.63 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk 4.12 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years 4.16 avg rating — 4,935 ratings
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Clapton: The Autobiography
Clapton: The Autobiography 3.83 avg rating — 28,819 ratings
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra 3.77 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Private Battles and The Khaki Cage
Private Battles and The Khaki Cage 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
77.
Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback
Blue Blood by Conlon, Edward (2004) Paperback 3.68 avg rating — 1,816 ratings
78.
Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil 4.25 avg rating — 13,602 ratings
79.
More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea
More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea 3.78 avg rating — 2,133 ratings
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A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life
A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning & Life 3.91 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler
Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler 3.41 avg rating — 764 ratings
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion 4.49 avg rating — 28,920 ratings
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Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 32,610 ratings
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Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit
Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit 3.40 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures
Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures 3.07 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty 4.12 avg rating — 10,336 ratings
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In Search of History
In Search of History 4.16 avg rating — 497 ratings
88.
Just Another Kid
Just Another Kid 4.23 avg rating — 5,977 ratings
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Audition: A Memoir
Audition: A Memoir 3.78 avg rating — 6,878 ratings
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Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks
Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, And Dying In The National Parks 4.03 avg rating — 6,223 ratings
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Up the Down Staircase
Up the Down Staircase 3.96 avg rating — 10,349 ratings
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Out of the Frying Pan: A Chef's Memoir of Hot Kitchens, Single Motherhood, and the Family Meal
Out of the Frying Pan: A Chef's Memoir of Hot Kitchens, Single Motherhood, and the Family Meal 3.40 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows
Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows 3.58 avg rating — 440 ratings
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Murphy's Boy
Murphy's Boy 4.15 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
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Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor 3.76 avg rating — 3,282 ratings
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China 3.93 avg rating — 9,485 ratings
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Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: What I Learned in School the Second Time Around—One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today
Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: What I Learned in School the Second Time Around—One Man's Irreverent Look at Being a Teacher Today 2.99 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home
Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home 3.79 avg rating — 971 ratings
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Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess
Bar Flower: My Decadently Destructive Days and Nights as a Tokyo Nightclub Hostess 3.40 avg rating — 483 ratings
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian 3.51 avg rating — 4,309 ratings
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