Selected nonfiction in which folks take a year or so to do something different, from keeping bees to reading the OED.
Compiled by Forbes Library Staff | Summaries from ContentCafe, NoveList, Wikipedia, Amazon.com | May 2013
- The happiness project : or why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read Aristotle, and generally have more fun
Rubin, Gretchen Craft. c2009.
Call number: BIY.R824h 2010 - Sundays in America : a yearlong road trip in search of Christian faith
Shea, Suzanne Strempek
Call number: CC.Sh31s 2008 - The cloister walk
Norris, Kathleen, 1996
Call number: DM.N794c - The abbey up the hill : a year in the life of a monastic day-tripper
Bonomo, Carol, c2002
Call number: DMBEN.B644a 2002 - MWF seeking BFF : my yearlong search for a new best friend
Bertsche, Rachel, 2011
Call number: EB462.A 2011 - The year of magical thinking
Didion, Joan, 2005
Call number: ED5624.A 2005 - Operating instructions : a journal of my son’s first year
Lamott, Anne. 1993.
Call number: EL1931.A - The wishing year : a house, a man, my soul : a memoir of fulfilled desire
Oxenhandler, Noelle, 2008
Call number: EOx18.A 2008 - Tolstoy and the purple chair : my year of magical reading
Sankovitch, Nina. 2011.
Call number: ESa5807.A 2011 - At seventy : a journal
Sarton, May, c1984
Call number: ESa772.A7 - Shelf life : romance, mystery, drama, and other page-turning adventures from a year in a bookstore
Shea, Suzanne Strempek. c2004
Call number: ESh301.A 2004 - Paris, my sweet : a year in the city of light (and dark chocolate)
Thomas, Amy, c2012.
Call number: F39ZP.T361p 2012 - A year in Provence
Mayle, Peter, 1990
Call number: F39ZP94.M453y - Gaza : a year in the intifada : a personal account
Emerson, Gloria. c1990
Call number: F61Q.Em33g - The prince of the marshes : and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
Stewart, Rory. 2006
Call number: F633FB.St49p 2006 - A year in the world : journeys of a passionate traveller
Mayes, Frances. 2006
Call number: G12.M453y 2006 - Before they’re gone : a family’s year-long quest to explore America’s most endangered national parks
Lanza, Michael. c2012.
Call number: G83.L298b 2012 - Travels with Charley : in search of America
Steinbeck, John, 1995
Call number: G83.St34t 1995 - Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl, 2013
Call number: G94.St82w 2013 - Gap years for grown ups
Griffith, Susan, 2011.
Call number: GE.G875g 2011 - Working in the shadows : a year of doing the jobs (most) Americans won’t do
Thompson, Gabriel. c2010.
Call number: HFN.T373w 2010 - The corner : a year in the life of an inner-city neighborhood
Simon, David, c1997
Call number: ICIO.Si53c 1997 - Relentless pursuit : a year in the trenches with Teach for America
Foote, Donna, 2008
Call number: IK941.F739r 2008 - Another planet : a year in the life of a suburban high school
Burkett, Elinor. c2001.
Call number: IU83.B893a 2001 - My freshman year : what a professor learned by becoming a student
Nathan, Rebekah, 2005
Call number: IX.N195m 2005 - Fat envelope frenzy : one year, five promising students, and the pursuit of the Ivy League prize
Jager-Hyman, Joie. 2008.
Call number: IX83.J182f 2008 - Courtroom 302 : a year behind the scenes in an American criminal courthouse
Bogira, Steve. 2005.
Call number: KA.B634c 2005 - One L : an inside account of life in the first year at Harvard Law School
Turow, Scott, 1988
Call number: KAT.T862o.1988 - The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod
Beston, Henry, 1992.
Call number: MAS844C.B464o - The view from Lazy Point : a natural year in an unnatural world
Safina, Carl, c2010
Call number: OGAG.Sa17v 2011 - The big year : a tale of man, nature, and fowl obsession
Obmascik, Mark,2004
Call number: PG.Ob4b 2004 - 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
Beavan, Colin, 2009
Call number: PYSE.B386n 2009 - Invasive procedures : a year in the world of two surgeons
Kramer, Mark, c1983.
Call number: QGG.K86i - The addict : one patient, one doctor, one year
Stein, Michael, c2009.
Call number: QFU.St34a 2009 - The seasons on Henry’s farm : a year of food and life on a sustainable farm
Brockman, Terra, c2009.
Call number: RGBG.B783s 2009 - A country year : living the questions
Hubbell, Sue. 1987, c1986.
Call number: RGCX.H862c.1986 - Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Kingsolver, Barbara. 2007.
Call number: RGCX.K617a 2007 - Quarter-acre farm : how I kept the patio, lost the lawn and fed my family for a year
Warren, Spring. 2011.
Call number: RGCX.W255q 2011 - The forest unseen : a year’s watch in nature
Haskell, David George. 2012.
Call number: RJ882.H273f 2012 - Conversations with a prince : a year of riding at East Hill Farm
Husher, Helen, 2005.
Call number: RKF.H956c 2005 - A year of pies : a seasonal tour of home baked pies
English, Ashley, c2012.
Call number: RVD.En36y 2012 - Eat my globe : one year to go everywhere and eat everything
Majumdar, Simon. 2009.
Call number: RVO.M289e 2009 - I loved, I lost, I made spaghetti
Melucci, Giulia, 2009
Call number: RVO.M496i 2009 - Julie and Julia : 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny apartment kitchen : how one girl risked her marriage, her job, and her sanity to master the art of living
Powell, Julie. 2005.
Call number: RVO.P871j 2005 - Plenty : one man, one woman, and a raucous year of eating locally
Smith, Alisa, c2007.
Call number: RVO.Sm51p 2007 - A devil to play : one man’s year-long quest to master the orchestra’s most difficult instrument
Rees, Jasper. 2008
Call number: VVR2588.A 2008 - Season with Solti; a year in the life of the Chicago Symphony
Furlong, William Barry
Call number: VVSo48.F978s - Sweater quest : my year of knitting dangerously
Martini, Adrienne, c2010
Call number: WUAK.M336s 2010 - Reading the OED : one man, one year, 21,730 pages
Shea, Ammon. 2008.
Call number: XYD.Sh31r 2008 - Walden
Thoreau, Henry David
Call number: Y.T391w.1965 - A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599
Shapiro, James, 2005
Call number: YDI.S9.Sh22y 2005 - Drop dead healthy : one man’s humble quest for bodily perfection
Jacobs, A. J., 2012.
Call number: YQI.J151d 2012 - The guinea pig diaries : my life as an experiment
Jacobs, A. J., 2009.
Call number: YQI.J151g 2009 - So many books, so little time : a year of passionate reading
Nelson, Sara, 2003.
Call number: ZX.N337s 2003 - Great books : my adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the Western world
Denby, David
Call number: ZY.D411g