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#BroaderBookshelf 2022 - Non-Celebrity Memoirs about Professions
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The #BroaderBookshelf challenge helps expand your reading habits to discover authors, genres and books you might not otherwise pick up. Check out one of these memoirs by somebody who isn't a celebrity that focus on the working life.
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run
True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
Published in 2014
xiii, 258 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm
Heat
An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Published in 2006
318 pages ; 25 cm
The Farmer's Son
Calving Season on a Family Farm
Published in 2019
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Two Years Before the Mast
A Personal Narrative
Published in 2009
xvii, 407 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Blood, Bones & Butter
The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Published in 2011
291 pages ; 25 cm
Personal Effects
What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
Published in 2021
viii, 294 pages ; 22 cm
Ranger Confidential
Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks
Published in 2010
viii, 245 pages ; 23 cm
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to when You Work in the White House
Published in 2017
viii, 248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Working Stiff
Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Published in 2014
258 pages ; 21 cm
The Shepherd's Life
Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
Published in 2015
293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
The Ravenmaster
My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
Published in 2018
viii, 241 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Look, I Made a Hat
Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany
Published in 2011
xxiii, 453 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Heads in Beds
A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-called Hospitality
Published in 2012
249 pages ; 25 cm
Tell Me Where It Hurts
A Day of Humor, Healing, and Hope in My Life As an Animal Surgeon
Published in 2008
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
A Midwife's Tale
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Published in 1990
x, 444 pages : maps ; 22 cm
How to Astronaut
An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
Published in 2020
ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm