Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is Books With Occupations in the Title (Submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life)
The Postmistress by Alison Stuart - A young woman moves to a small country town in Victoria in the 1870s and starts working as the postmistress. (My review)
The Map Maker's Promise by Catherine Law - This is a WWII novel which follows a woman whose top secret job is to update the maps with new information following bombing runs. (My review)
The Baker's Daughter by Sarah McCoy - I'm pretty sure I could find a lot of baker titles, but I am going to limit to just two. This one is one of the earliest WWII novels that is like the novels you would expect to read today. (My review)
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller - I read this a couple of years ago as part of Cook the Books. (My review)
The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin - I really enjoyed this WWII novel which is set in both Portugal and France. (My review)
The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley - It was only when I read this book that I found out that The King's Messenger is a very specific role, and it still exists. (My review)
The Jam Maker by Mary-Lou Stephens - I have really enjoyed all of Mary-Lou Stephens historical fiction foodie novels set in Tasmania (My review)
The Paris Dancer by Nicola Rayner - This is another WWII novel where a dancer becomes caught up in resistance activities. (My review)
The President's Hat by Antoine Laurain - What happens when the president leaves his hat in a Paris restaurant. Quite a lot actually. (My review)
The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai - The food detective help bring the memories of past meals back to life. (My review)
You found some good occupations. I found very few so I tweaked my answers this week.
ReplyDeleteI'll be over to check out your tweak shortly!
DeleteThis is turning out to be a great way to add books to my TBR list.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to my own post
https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/%f0%9f%93%9atoptentuesday-10-books-with-occupations-in-their-titles-tuesdaybookblog-booktwitter-booktwt/
Top Ten Tuesday is always good for that!
DeleteLots of historical fiction! I think occupations in titles are quite common in historical fiction.
ReplyDeleteI think you are right!
DeleteSuch a diverse list of jobs!
ReplyDeletePam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/get-an-unusal-job-ten-books-with-unusual-jobs-in-the-title/
I tried to do all different jobs but then missed that I had two bakers!
DeleteI love your post title today!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I had a bit of fun with it!
DeleteFun jobs!
ReplyDeleteI have only read Laurain's book.
Here is my list: https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/09/02/top-ten-books-with-occupations-in-the-title/
Thanks for stopping by Emma
DeleteThese look good!
ReplyDeleteHave a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-occupations-in-the-title/
They were good Emily!
Deleteoh I'd forgotten about The City Baker's Guide to Country Living - I really enjoyed that one! My TTT
ReplyDeleteI did enjoy that book too MeezCarrie!
DeleteI laughed at your title. Eventually, I do want to read The Kamogawa Food Detectives.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
It's such a lovely read. The third book comes out soon and I can't wait!
DeleteOh I had a postmistress title I forgot about for my list! Great job! ~Carol @ ReadingLadies
ReplyDeleteThanks Carol!
DeleteA very interesting selection of titles this week!!
ReplyDeleteIt was a fun list to put together!
DeleteI haven't read any of these, but they really look so good. I'm loving this topic.
ReplyDeleteIt is a fun topic for sure!
DeleteAwesome list!
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteI loved your title, it made me laugh! Great selection for today!
ReplyDeleteIt makes me smile too Cindy!
DeleteI loved the Kamogawa Food Detectives! I once did an online writing workshop led by author Louise Miller of City Baker's Guide to Country Living--fun to see that book here.
ReplyDeleteI have never done a writing workshop Lisa! I did recently start thinking about it!
DeleteWhat a great list! I love that you've included so many historical fiction titles, especially those related to WWII. It's a fantastic selection for this topic.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't deliberate at all Teresa! Just the way it worked out!
DeleteGreat choices. I've not seen Jam Maker or Map Maker yet today. Lots of historical fiction, mine was as well.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that so many HF titles fitted this prompt!
DeleteI really want to try The Librarian Spy - it sounds like it could be right up my alley.
ReplyDeleteIt was a very good read Lauren!
DeleteNice, varied list! You found some unique ones.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
Thanks for stopping by Susan!
DeleteWhat a great list, Marg. I had forgotten about some of these books.
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Thanks Cheryl!
DeleteIt’s interesting the number of books with women caught up in WWII acting as spies that I’m running into lately. You have The Librarian Spy on your list, and I have The Last Secret Agent.
ReplyDeleteThere's quite a few of them around Olivia! I have several others I can think of without trying too hard!
DeleteGreat list, a whole bunch of new ones I have never heard of.
ReplyDeletedidn't mean for that to be anonymous. sorry.
ReplyDeleteThank you! And no problem re the anonymous comment
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