My Year Spent Doing Something Stupid so I Could Write This Book

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These are books that fit into a very specific niche that has become popular of late--that of doing something for a year just to write about it. Some of these are actually good, but most are not.
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annualism
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver
8,239 members
273 reviews
4.1
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2
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
by A. J. Jacobs
5,138 members
162 reviews
½ 3.7
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Caramellunacy
3
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
by Kevin Roose
1,232 members
84 reviews
4.1
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4
Howards End is on the Landing
by Susan Hill
1,201 members
83 reviews
½ 3.7
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Caramellunacy
5
Yes Man
by Danny Wallace
1,160 members
41 reviews
4
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tessatolemiss
6
Ten Days in a Mad-House
by Nellie Bly
873 members
45 reviews
3.8
Member
tessatolemiss
7
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine
760 members
50 reviews
3.1
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tessatolemiss
9
My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir
by Noelle Hancock
227 members
11 reviews
3.8
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tessatolemiss
10
My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
by Benyamin Cohen
191 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
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tessatolemiss
12
A Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying to Live Ethically
by Leo Hickman
137 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
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13
365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy
by Charla Muller
83 members
7 reviews
½ 2.4
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tessatolemiss
15
How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day
by Kath Kelly
42 members
2 reviews
3.1
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tessatolemiss
16
Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex
by Hephzibah Anderson
33 members
1 review
1.8
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tessatolemiss
17
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
11,742 members
231 reviews
½ 3.7
18
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
by Julie Powell
6,190 members
272 reviews
½ 3.5
21
Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
4,737 members
87 reviews
4
23
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey into Manhood and Back Again
by Norah Vincent
1,540 members
63 reviews
½ 3.4
24
Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford
1,080 members
33 reviews
3.9
25
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
by A. J. Jacobs
1,071 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
26
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
by Alisa Smith
829 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
27
The People of the Abyss
by Jack London
772 members
30 reviews
4.1
28
Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
by Dave Gorman
595 members
19 reviews
3.8
30
Paper Lion [1968 film]
by George Plimpton
440 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
31
Bonfire of the Brands
by Neil Boorman
56 members
5 reviews
3.2