Top Ten Tuesday used to be a weekly post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, but was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. “It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.” This is definitely something I can understand and want to participate in.
Happy Tuesday, and it’s the first Tuesday of September. We’ve moved past summer and we have just entered the season of the witch (and pumpkin spice everything). I’m not complaining about either one of these things, and I actually wait all year for this season. I do enjoy fall a lot, but winter is really my favorite season, so the cooling temps and shorter days are appreciated.
This week’s topic is books with occupations in the title, and it was submitted by Hopewell’s Public Library of Life. I have a feeling this is going to be an interesting list, since I tend to read mostly fantasy. Instead, I might have to go a little further back into my reading to find books for this prompt. Here goes nothing:
- The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson. I really enjoyed this fantasy novel about a scholar forced to take on a new role.
- The Magic Maker by Mickey Dubrow. Another fantasy novel, this one has a decidedly Jewish spin and features a rabbi who can make magic happen.
- The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig. While ‘knight’ might not be a job title anymore, it was for a significant portion of time, and remains a favorite occupation in fantasy novels.
- The Radiant King by David Dalglish. Here’s another job title that has become a bit obsolete in most places, but remains a profession featured in fantasy novels.
- The Witch’s Orchard by Archer Sullivan. I guess today’s post is about offbeat professions, and I am adding witch to that list. It used to often refer to cunning women, or herbal healers, and that’s a profession in my opinion.
- The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman. This is a legit profession that is currently in use today—whether a Jewish shadchan/it or behind the scenes on popular shows like Married at First Sight or Indian Matchmaking—and the book is fantastic.
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. I loved this book featuring a Jewish detective solving crime in this mystery that takes place if history had diverged in 1948 and Israel did not exist.
- The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad. Teachers have the power to shape minds and encourage a love of learning, and we all have a teacher to thank for our love of books.
- The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas. Here’s a profession I hope never to encounter, but it seems that I really love reading about assassins because this was a good read.
- Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs. This reimagining of part of Beowulf draws on the shield maidens of the Viking age, and I’m all about seeing strong women featured in historical fiction. This one also had awesome disability representation as well.
How did you do with your list this week? Drop your link below!
Categories: Top Ten Tuesday
Leah's Books 
Sarah’s is a fun one to include! I used to own those so once upon a time I could have added that to my list, too. I feel like for me, it would have livened my list up since I repeat titles too often. 😉
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Right? I like to try and pull from a wide range of real and imaginary professions to keep it fresh.
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Assassin? I wonder where you go to school for that occupation? Funny.
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According to the book, you have to go for a lot of brutal training by a guy, so maybe that’s the schooling for it?
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I think anything goes for this topic, I squeezed in at least two kings, a spy and a pirate!
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There are only so many professions that I can find on my bookshelves, so I had to get creative with things! Sounds like you did too.
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I love how many jobs there are here that would be pretty hard to get into nowadays – the beauty of fantasy!
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Right? It’s so much more fun reading about these kind of professions than contemporary ones. Who wants to read about a CEO when you can read about an assassin?
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A great list of jobs! I loved reading The Matchmaker’s Gift.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/get-an-unusal-job-ten-books-with-unusual-jobs-in-the-title/
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That was one of my favorites on this list! I always love sneaking in one of her books.
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These look good. I do love these months too! All thee Halloween/Autumn/Christmas stuff is coming out in the shops!
Have a great week.
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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Thank you! I love the autumn holidays, and the snow is my favorite! Hope you have a great week.
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Ahhh we haven’t had snow in so many years now. It’s sad. I like the snow when it comes, but then I don’t like the slippery ice 😂
Thank you. You too 😊
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We haven’t gotten as much snow as we used to. It used to be that we could count on at least one good storm, but the last couple of years, we didn’t get more than flurries.
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It’s scary really isn’t it. In the olden days the river Thames used to freeze. I’ve never known that so I suppose it’s been getting warmer for a long time!
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I remember having blizzards when I was young, and we don’t get more than a flurry now.
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Wow. The only real blizzard I have been in was in Iceland. My partner and I had hotdogs on the beach in a blizzard 🤣
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That sounds like an awesome experience! Besides, how many people can say they’ve done that? 😂
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It was amazing. Haha not many. I certainly didn’t see anyone whilst we were there!
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I love how loosely ‘profession’ is applied in this post. But lots of fantastic looking books, too.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
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Thank you! There were only so many reasonable professions I could find among the titles I’ve read, so I had to get a little creative.
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I also had a teacher and matchmaker on my list, Leah. I thought about royal titles, I almost used Queen. Nice choices.
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Thank you! Queen works because technically, there are countries who still are ruled by a monarchy, so I figured that was safe. I did think outside of the box for some of these, though.
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Thank you! Queen works because technically, there are countries who still are ruled by a monarchy, so I figured that was safe. I did think outside of the box for some of these, though.
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I loved The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, I didn’t think to include that on this list. Finding real occupations in titles was more difficult than I expected.
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I loved that one too. There were only so many occupations that I could find in titles, especially since I read so much fantasy.
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What a great list! I love that you’ve included a mix of modern and fantasy professions. It’s a really unique take on the topic!
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Thank you! I had to include some fantasy professions, otherwise I couldn’t find enough professions that are in titles that I read about. But it did make things fun.
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I’m looking forward to The Radiant King. Thanks for sharing!
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That’s a really good one. I hope you love it as much as I did!
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Shield Maiden! Such a good one. I can’t believe I forgot it. lol Great choices this week, Leah!
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I was really struggling to find titles by the time I got to that one. But I knew you’d love seeing that one on there. And thank you!
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Fantasy books have much more interesting occupations in their titles than the ones I found in my mysteries and historical fiction books, LOL! Great list.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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Thank you! I tried to do all realistic professions, but I ran out of it because I tend to read so much fantasy. Besides, fantasy books have much cooler professions!
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Oooh Matchmaker! That’s a good one!
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Thank you! It’s one of my favorite books on this list, and it was such an off the beaten path kind of profession I had to include it!
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I find the history of witches to be so interesting.
I had a family emergency last week and so am just catching up on stuff now.
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I hope all is well with the family.
I’m endlessly fascinated with books about witches – nonfiction, historical fiction, cozy mysteries, fantasy, you name it.
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