📚 Occupations

Books with occupations on their catalogue record, first published between 1867 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 20 works carrying the subject occupations in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 34,912 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Barbie	Cynthia O'Neill	2000	9
	Choosing a vocation	Frank Parsons	1909	8
	Maybe you should fly a jet! Maybe you should be a vet!	Dr. Seuss	1980	6
	Do what you are	Paul D. Tieger	1992	5
	Six ways to get a job	Paul W. Boynton	1940	4
	Dictionary of Holland occupational codes	Gary D. Gottfredson	1982	4
	Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed	Priscilla Galloway	2003	4
	Whose hands are these?	Miranda Paul	2016	4
	How to make money at home	Isabel Stevens Webster	1949	3
	Richard Scarry's what do people do all day?	Richard Scarry	1968	3
	How to make money	Thomas Alfred Davies	1867	2
	I can be an archaeologist	Robert B. Pickering	1987	2
	Trades and Occupations	Carol Belanger Grafton	1990	2
	One thousand ways to make $1000	Frances Mary Cowan Minaker	1940	1
	One thousand ways to make $1,000 in your spare time	Hoke, Helen.	1959	1
	Richard Scarry's Busy Coloring Book	Richard Scarry	1994	1
	When I Grow Up	Caroline Jayne Church	2001	1
	Ten in the Bed	Cabrera Jane	2006	1
	I can get paid for that?	Jo Stewart	2018	1
	Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? (Richard Scarry's Busy World)	Richard Scarry	2015	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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