Quirky Quests

To Be Perfectly Honest: One Man’s Year of Almost Living Truthfully Could Change Your Life – No Lie
Phil Callaway OO

The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
A.J. Jacobs 001.2 JAC

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
Alice Ozma 028.9 OZM

The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul: A Memoir of Fulfilled Desire
Noelle Oxenhandler 152.4 OXE

Give It Up! My Year of Learning to Live Better With Less
Mary Carlomagno 179.9 CAR

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
A.J. Jacobs 220 JAC

My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross 297.814 GAR

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
Jeff Deck 302.2244 DEC

Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk
Robyn Okrant 305.42 OKR

Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!)
Douglas Brown 306.7 BRO

Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex
Hephzibah Anderson 306.732 AND

Year of the Cock: The Remarkable True Account of a Married Man Who Left His Wife and Paid the Price
Alan Wieder 306.736 WIE

The Year of Yes: A Memoir
Maria Dahvana Headley 306.8153 HEA

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Colin Beavan 333.72 BEA

Sleeping Naked Is Green: How an Eco-Cynic Unplugged Her Fridge, Sold Her Car, and Found Love in 366 Days
Vanessa Farquharson 333.72 FAR

The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir
Cylin Busby 363.2 BUS

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison
Piper Kerman 365.43 KER

The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle: A Memoir
Dan Brown 371.1 BRO

Do-Over! In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments
Robin Hemley 371.8 HEM

Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year
Esmé Raji Codell 372.11 COD

Your Gap Year: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Year Out the Adventure of a Lifetime
Susan Griffith 378.016 GRI

Ridiculous/Hilarious/Terrible/Cool: A Year in an American High School
Elisha Cooper 373.18 COO

My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
Rebekah Nathan 378.198 NAT

Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail
Caitlin Kelly 381.1 KEL

Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods
Julie Zickefoose 508.771 ZIC

The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Mark Obmascik 598.07234 OBM

Out of the Woods: A Bird Watcher’s Year
Ora E. Anderson 598.07234771 AND

The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction
Glen Chilton 598.41 CHI

Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
Vanessa Woods 599.885 WOO

The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything
Charlotte Hilton Andersen 613.7 AND

Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
Judith Levine 640.73 LEV

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver 641 KIN

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Julie Powell 641.5 POW

The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen With Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater 641.5 SLA

52 Loaves: One Man’s Relentless Pursuit of Truth, Meaning and a Perfect Crust
William Alexander 641.815 ALE

The Year of Loving Dangerously: A Graphic Memoir
Ted Rall 741.5 RAL

Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously
Adrienne Martini 746.432 MAR

Chasing Matisse: A Year in France Living My Dream
James Morgan 759.4 MOR

Bigger Deal: A Year on the New Poker Circuit
Anthony Holden 795.412 HOL

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
Wendy McClure 813.52 WIL

The Lost Girls: Three Friends, Four Continents, One Unconventional Detour Around the World
Jennifer Baggett 910.41 BAG

Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome
Leonard Barkan 914.5632 BAR

Lost on Planet China: the Strange and True Story of One Man’s Attempt to Understand the World’s Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid
J. Maarten Troost 915.1 TRO

The River’s Tale: A Year on the Mekong
Edward A. Gargan 915.97 GAR

The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese
Margaret Hathaway 917.3 HAT

Turn Left at the Trojan Horse: A Would-be Hero’s American Odyssey
Brad Herzog 917.3 HER

Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island
Peter Rudiak-Gould 919.683 RUD

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