 | One Red Paperclip: How a Small Piece of Stationery Turned into a Great Big Adventure by Kyle MacDonald
Buy used from: $3.35 in the space of one year Kyle MacDonald turned a red paperclip into a two story house, through a series of unlikely trades (with the help of the internet and the 24 hr. news machine)
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 | Yes Man by Danny Wallace
Buy used from: $2.54 Danny Wallace meets a man on a bus who suggest that he "say yes more". Danny says "Yes" for a year. Where will it lead? Fame? Fortune? Happiness? or just loads of hangovers and credit card debt?
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 | Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping by Judith Levine
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.00 Judith Levine gives up buying for a whole year. Ok, she still buys stuff, but only ESSENTIAL stuff. But what is essential? Watch as she gives up mesclun salad mix! See as she checks books out from the public library!
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 | Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
Buy used from: $11.99 Finding herself adrift and goalless in Manhattan at age 29, Julie Powell decides to....cook every recipe in Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" of course.
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 | The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.98 A.J. Jacobs reads the whole Encyclopedia Britannica and still has the time enough to write a funny book about it. Too bad about the erythrocytes.
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 | The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $3.26 Following up his Encyclopedia Britannica triumph, A.J. Jacobs further tests the devotion of his friends and family by obeying the Bible, as literally as possible.
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 | The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.26 Two years in on a tiny island in the South Pacific with his girlfriend. Paradise? Depends how you feel about the Macarena.
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 | The Size of the World by Jeff Greenwald
Buy used from: $1.49 Jeff Greenwald circumnavigates the world without leaving the ground: planes, buses, boats, feet, but NO AIRPLANES. In six months.
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 | Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 The title pretty much says it all. A personal audience with God AND the best pizza in the world ....a pretty good year.
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 | Gutted: Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Entire Life by Lawrence LaRose
Buy used from: $0.01 The do-it-yourself home renovation. Asbestos tiles, black mold, neighbors who sue over shade. Can this marriage be saved?
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 | Just Do It: How One Couple Turned Off the TV and Turned On Their Sex Lives for 101 Days (No Excuses!) by Douglas Brown
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $1.98 A really sweet story of a really sweet couple that has a whole lot of sex.
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