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
1
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
af Barbara Kingsolver
7,706 medlemmer
259 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
hipdeep
2
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
af A. J. Jacobs
4,896 medlemmer
162 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
Caramellunacy
3
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
af Kevin Roose
1,175 medlemmer
82 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
tessatolemiss
4
Howards End is on the Landing
af Susan Hill
1,135 medlemmer
80 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
Caramellunacy
5
Yes Man
af Danny Wallace
1,126 medlemmer
40 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
tessatolemiss
6
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
af Judith Levine
740 medlemmer
47 anmeldelser
3.1
Member
tessatolemiss
7
Ten Days in a Mad-House
af Nellie Bly
663 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
tessatolemiss
9
My Year with Eleanor: A Memoir
af Noelle Hancock
214 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
tessatolemiss
10
My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
af Benyamin Cohen
177 medlemmer
15 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
Member
tessatolemiss
11
A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
af Stefan Fatsis
163 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
tessatolemiss
12
A Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying to Live Ethically
af Leo Hickman
138 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
Member
tessatolemiss
13
365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy
af Charla Muller
79 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 2.4
Member
tessatolemiss
14
Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!)
af Douglas Brown
75 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
Member
tessatolemiss
15
How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day
af Kath Kelly
42 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.1
Member
tessatolemiss
16
Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex
af Hephzibah Anderson
32 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
1.8
Member
tessatolemiss
17
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
af Barbara Ehrenreich
10,930 medlemmer
212 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
18
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
af Julie Powell
5,808 medlemmer
267 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
20
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
af A. J. Jacobs
4,685 medlemmer
192 anmeldelser
3.8
Member
tessatolemiss,aulsmith
21
Black Like Me
af John Howard Griffin
4,315 medlemmer
79 anmeldelser
4
22
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
af Bill Buford
2,754 medlemmer
86 anmeldelser
3.8
23
Forklædt som mand : en kvindes rejse ind i mændenes verden og tilbage igen
af Norah Vincent
1,461 medlemmer
60 anmeldelser
½ 3.4
24
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
af A. J. Jacobs
1,019 medlemmer
55 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
25
Blandt hooligans
af Bill Buford
985 medlemmer
30 anmeldelser
3.9
26
Afgrundens Folk
af Jack London
657 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
4.1
27
Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
af Dave Gorman
576 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
3.8
28
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
af Alisa Smith
546 medlemmer
23 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
30
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
af George Plimpton
407 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
31
Bonfire of the Brands
af Neil Boorman
54 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.2