Tinker, Tailor...

Books with an occupation in the title.

Friday The Rabbi Slept Late (And, of course, all of Harry Kemelman's titles)
Too Many Cooks
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Judge is Reversed by Frances & Richard Lockridge

The Collector
The Historian
Shoes of the Fisherman
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Date with a Dead Doctor by Toni Brill
Roustabout by Michelle Chalfoun
The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

Alibi for a Judge, by Henry Cecil
Animal Acrobats, by Robert Cremins
An Apology for Printers, by Benjamin Franklin
Architects Make Zigzags : Looking at Architecture from A to Z, by Diane Maddex
Ask a Policeman, by Detection Club

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
Tinker, Tailor, Mutant, Spy by Brian K. Vaughan
Tinker, Tailor, Missionary by Michael Griffiths
Tinker, Tailor, Fighter, Spy by Jolly R. Blackburn
A Soldier and a Sailor, A Tinker and a Tailor by William Rogers

The Shadow of the Torturer
The Claw of the Conciliator
The Sword of the Lictor
The Citadel of the Autarch
Calde of the Long Sun

...all by Gene Wolfe

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Summer of my German Solider by Bette Greene
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari

Cherry Ames, Army Nurse (would it be cheating to list all the Cherry Ames books?) by Helen Wells
Army Boys in France by Homer Randall
The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hearn
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Knight Before Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers
The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carre
The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter
The Barber of Putney by J B Morton
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J D Salinger

The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

Lunch with the Generals by Derek Hansen
Lunch with the Stationmaster by Derek Hansen
Lunch with a Soldier by Derek Hansen
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Butcher's Theatre by Jonathan Kellerman

The Poet by Michael Connelly
Golfer's Guide to Life by Various
G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag
Angry Housewives Eating Bon-bons by Lorna Landvik

The Shoes of the Fisherman Morris L. West
Biblioholism by Tom Raabe
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Busman's Honeymoon Dorothy L. Sayers
The Constant Gardener John Le Carre

Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis
The Master Butcher's singing club Louise Erdrich
Soldier's Pay William Faulkner
Just a Nurse Janet Kraegel
The Burglar who studied Spinoza Lawrence Block

The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Angel Carver by Rosanne Daryl Thomas
The Bad Popes by E.R. Chamberlin
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming

Celtic Bards, Celtic Druids by R.J. Stewart
Essentials of Fire Fighting
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
The Great Composers by Jeremy Nicholas
The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
The Sculptress by Minette Walters
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The Amateur Spy by Dan Fesperman
The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez

Adventures of a No Name Actor by Marco Perella
The Accidental Florist by Jill Churchill
Surviving a Writer's Life by Suzanne Lipsett
Dancing with the Witchdoctor by Kelly James
Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues by Blaize Clement

So You want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
The Patient Who Cured His Therapist by Stanley Siegel
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
The Shepherd Psalm by F B Meyer
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Lux the poet by Martin Millar
Clemency Pogue, Fairy Killer by JT Petty
Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches by Lucian
The Demon Headmasterby Gillian Cross
Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler by Carl-Johan Vallgren

The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
The Abortionist's Daughter by Elisabeth Hyde
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Miss America by Day by Marilyn Van Derbur
Helen Keller's Teacher by Margaret Davidson

The Secret Hangman by Peter Lovesay
Weaver's Tale by Kate Sedley
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Merchant's Mark by Pat McIntosh
Servant's Tale by Margaret Frazer

The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

As Long As Life: The Memoirs of a Frontier Woman Doctor by Mary Canaga Rowland
Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator: Edible Essays on City Farming by Spring Gillard
The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Bertha Knight Landes of Seattle: Big-City Mayor by Sandra Haarsager

The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
The Valley of the Assassins by Freya Stark
The Forger by Paul Watkins
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

The Financier,Theodore Dreiser
The Catsitters, James Wolcott
The Good Soldier Schweik, Jaroslav Hasek
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Shoot the Piano Player, David Goodis

Grimscribe Thomas Ligotti
El Criador de Gorilas (The Gorila Keeper) Roberto Arlt
The Alienist Caleb Carr
The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Tom Robbins

Dollmaker by J. Robert Janes
The Case of the Russian Diplomat by E.V. Cunningham
The Bishop Murder Case by S.S. van Dine
The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse by Erle Stanley Gardner
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell
No Man's Mistress by Mary Balogh
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Epitaph for a Lobbyist by R.B. Dominic
Add One Dead Critic by Cathie John
Rancher's Blood by Wendi Lee
Death of a DJ by Jane Rubino
The Concubine's Tattoo by Laura Joh Rowland

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K Dick
The Broker by John Grisham
The Yoga Teacher by Alexandra Gray
The Only Good Lawyer by Jeremiah Healy
The Generous Gardener by Trisha Ashley

the interpreter of maladies jhumpa lahiri
come back, dr caligari donald barthelme
the braindead megaphone george saunders
"the 400-lb. ceo" george saunders
"the wavemaker falters" george saunders

technically "megaphone" isn't an occupation (although it is used as a metaphor for journalist) & the last two are stories (both found in civilwarland in bad decline)

i could've come up with some more appropriate titles but he's my favorite

Merchant of Venus by Ellen Hart
The Cavalier in White by Marcia Muller
The Pearl Diver by Sujuta Massey
Exit the Milkman by Charlotte MacLeod
Pel and the Pirates by Mark Hebden

American Detective by Loren Estleman
Tip on a Dead Jockey by Irwin Shaw
The Reporter by Kelly Lange
Death and the Senator by Arthur C. Clarke
The Case of the Terrified Typist by Erle Stanley
Gardner

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow
Captains and Kings by Taylor Caldwell
The Swimmer by John Cheever
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Making of a Marchioness by Francis Hodgson Burnett

Book Doctor by Esther Cohen
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl by Tracy Quan
The General In His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore

Death at Bishop's Keep by Robin Paige
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat by Erle Stanley Gardner
The President Vanishes by Rex Stout
Death of a Dentist by M.C. Beaton
Death of a Mystery Writer by Robert Barnard

Doctor No by Ian Fleming
B is For Burglar by Sue Grafton
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James

The Ambassadors by Henry James
Are You My Mother? by Phillip D. Eastman
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Dog Who Bit A Policeman by Stuart Kaminsky
Hail to the Chef by Julie Hrzy
The Sailor's Rendezvous by Georges Simenon
Ode to a Banker by Lindsey Davis
Poet in the Gutter by John Baker

The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy by Ian Kelly
Knights of the Blank and White by Jack Whyte
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
Sailor Girl by Sheree-Lee Olson

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Alchemist by Michael Scott
So you want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane

not very original. =D oh well.

Ode to a Banker by Lindsey Davis
The Demon Archer by P.C. Doherty
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
The Farmer's Daughter by William Carlos Williams
The Gunslinger by Stephen King
Angry Young Spaceman by Jim Munroe

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma by Eric Saward
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Miller's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
The Sculptress by Minette Walters
A Writer's House in Wales by Jan Morris
Architects of Our Fortune by Eliza A.W. Otis
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Geographer's Library
The Italian Secretary
Teacher Man
The Allyn and Bacon Teaching Assistant's Handbook
Lady Boss

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
Curtains for the Cardinal by Elizabeth Eyre
The Postman by David Brin
Judge Dee at Work by Robert van Gulik

The Curse of the Pharoahs by Elizabeth Peters
An Imperfect Spy by Amanda Cross
The Legend of the Slain Soldiers by Marcia Muller
The Mad Monk of Gidleigh by Michael Jecks
The Night Manager by john LeCarre

The Weekend Novelist by Robert J. Ray
The Dinner Doctor by Anne Byrne
Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Southern Gardener's Book of Lists by Lois Trigg Chaplin
The Southern Cook's Handbook by Courtney Taylor

The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
Falconer by John Cheever
Farmer in the Sky by Robert Heinlein
The Judge by Steve Martini

Death of a Scriptwriter by M.C. Beaton
The Tightrope Walker by Dorothy Gilman
The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato
The French Gardener buy Santa Montefiore
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck

The Franchiser} by Stanley Elkin}

The Bail Bondsman (Elkin)

The Deanʻs December by Saul Bellow

Soldierʻs Pay (Faulkner)

The Fixer (Malamud)

The Magician's Tale by David Hunt
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell
The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver
Doctor No by ian Fleming

The Last Cop by Mickey Spillane

Cop World by James McClure

Police Procedurals: a Writer's Guide
by Russell Bintliff

Soldier's Pay by William Faulkner

Sailor on Horseback: jack London. . .
by Irving Stone

The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas

by Francine Rivers:
The Priest
The Scribe
The Warrior
The Last Sin Eater (it really was an "occupation"

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
The Apothecary's House by Adrian Mathews
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Rise of a Merchant Prince by Raymond E. Feist
The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen

Colonel Snobden's Office Boy
by Horatio Alger,Jr.

What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton

The Merchant / Mercator
by Plautus

The Braggart (Mercenary) Soldier / Miles Gloriosus
by Plautus

Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World
by Guy Griffiths*

*Just added to my Wish List; I read a univ. libr. copy of this in the 1950s.