Year-Long Projects
3. 
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by:
Julie Powell
3.71 avg rating — 160,371 ratings 4. 
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
by:
A.J. Jacobs
3.76 avg rating — 68,669 ratings 
7. 
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
by:
Nina Sankovitch
3.48 avg rating — 7,281 ratings 8. 
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
by:
Sara Nelson
3.39 avg rating — 3,041 ratings 9. 
The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog
by:
Jen Lancaster
3.80 avg rating — 9,420 ratings 10. 
Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food
by:
Megan Kimble
3.85 avg rating — 1,445 ratings 11. 
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
by:
Helen Russell
3.97 avg rating — 31,658 ratings 12. 
MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend
by:
Rachel Bertsche
3.44 avg rating — 12,908 ratings 13. 
Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
by:
Gretchen Rubin
3.55 avg rating — 20,069 ratings 
15. 
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The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital 3.74 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
20. 
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
by:
A.J. Jacobs
3.75 avg rating — 14,917 ratings 
23. 
A Year Unplugged: A Family's Life Without Technology
by:
Sharael Kolberg
3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings 
27. 
365 Thank Yous: The Year a Simple Act of Daily Gratitude Changed My Life
by:
John Kralik
3.92 avg rating — 4,384 ratings 28. 
30. 
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
by:
Scott Kelly
4.21 avg rating — 22,456 ratings 
32. 
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
by:
Noah Strycker
4.27 avg rating — 2,176 ratings 33. 
Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
by:
Susan Hill
3.65 avg rating — 4,002 ratings 
36. 
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
by:
Scott Turow
3.72 avg rating — 9,168 ratings 
38. 
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
by:
Alisa Smith
3.74 avg rating — 3,882 ratings 39. 
The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling
by:
Quinn Cummings
3.49 avg rating — 1,362 ratings 40. 
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
by:
Rebekah Nathan
3.23 avg rating — 1,437 ratings 41. 
The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
by:
Janice Kaplan
3.94 avg rating — 5,970 ratings 42. 
The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I kept the patio, lost the lawn, and fed my family for a year
by:
Spring Warren
3.79 avg rating — 1,409 ratings 43. 
The Year without a Purchase: One Family's Quest to Stop Shopping and Start Connecting 3.74 avg rating — 639 ratings
44. 
Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter's Uncommon Year
by:
Laura Brodie
3.57 avg rating — 437 ratings 45. 
A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy
by:
Sara Bongiorni
3.05 avg rating — 1,318 ratings 46. 
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
by:
Beth Lisick
3.41 avg rating — 1,085 ratings 47. 
My Jesus Year: A Rabbi's Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith
by:
Benyamin Cohen
3.57 avg rating — 955 ratings 48. 
Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement
by:
Kay Wills Wyma
3.72 avg rating — 2,952 ratings 
48. 
The Year of Drinking Adventurously: 52 Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
by:
Jeff Cioletti
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 48. 
52 Weeks of Writing Author Journal and Planner: Get out of your own way and become the writer you're meant to be 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings
48. 
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The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes 3.11 avg rating — 450 ratings
56. 
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
by:
Kenn Kaufman
4.29 avg rating — 2,624 ratings 56. 
100 Lunches with strangers: a simple way to step out of your comfort zone and transform your life
by:
Kaley Chu
2.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 56. 
Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons
by:
Lev Parikian
4.24 avg rating — 192 ratings 59. 
The Year Yellowstone Burned: A Twenty-Five-Year Perspective
by:
Jeff Henry
4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings 59. 
61. 
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country Vet
by:
Anna Birch
4.24 avg rating — 198 ratings 
65. 
A Year By The Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
by:
Joan Anderson
3.93 avg rating — 9,026 ratings 65. 
Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: A Memoir of Humor and Healing
by:
Reba Riley
3.78 avg rating — 1,798 ratings 
68. 
Living Oprah: My One-Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk
by:
Robyn Okrant
3.12 avg rating — 1,047 ratings 68. 
Last Horsemen: A Year at Sillywrea, Britain's Only Horse-Powered Farm
by:
Charles Bowden
4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings 68. 
A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
by:
Jane Smiley
3.89 avg rating — 795 ratings 71. 
71. 
52 Mondays: The One Year Path to Outrageous Success & Lifelong Happiness
by:
Vic Johnson
3.54 avg rating — 242 ratings 71. 
Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II
by:
Charles Osgood
3.48 avg rating — 193 ratings 
74. 
A Year in Hell: Memoir of an Army Foot Soldier Turned Reporter in Vietnam, 1965-1966
by:
Ray Pezzoli
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
81. 
Tout Sweet: Hanging Up my High Heels for a New Life in France
by:
Karen Wheeler
3.62 avg rating — 1,678 ratings 81. 
Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family's Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table
by:
Dylan Tomine
4.25 avg rating — 751 ratings 81. 
Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo : A Sports Writer's Year
by:
Tom Humphries
3.78 avg rating — 55 ratings 
85. 
A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement 4.05 avg rating — 363 ratings
85. 
'write words' A Year in the Life of an Indie Author
by:
Kristine Raymond
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 87. 
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
by:
Joe Biden
4.14 avg rating — 23,888 ratings 88. 
The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
by:
Henry Beston
4.07 avg rating — 3,783 ratings 89. 
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
by:
Tony Danza
3.86 avg rating — 4,373 ratings 
90. 
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
by:
Ted Genoways
3.84 avg rating — 1,267 ratings 92. 
The Art of Eating In: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove
by:
Cathy Erway
3.33 avg rating — 1,506 ratings 92. 
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
by:
Lorene Cary
3.55 avg rating — 478 ratings 94. 
Hoosier Hysteria: A Fateful Year in the Crosshairs of Race in America 3.12 avg rating — 24 ratings
95. 
Jennifer, Gwyneth & Me: The Pursuit of Happiness, One Celebrity at a Time
by:
Rachel Bertsche
3.20 avg rating — 623 ratings 
97. 
Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books
by:
Michael Dirda
3.63 avg rating — 1,291 ratings 97. 
A Forest in the Clouds: My Year Among the Mountain Gorillas in the Remote Enclave of Dian Fossey
by:
John Fowler
3.85 avg rating — 203 ratings 99. 
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