A.J. Jacobs





A.J. Jacobs

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March 20, 1968

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A.J. Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author, Esquire editor and human guinea pig.

Among Jacobs’ life experiments:
--The Know-It-All. The bestselling memoir of the year he spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in a quest to become the smartest person in the world.
--The Year of Living Biblically. The bestseller about his life as the ultimate biblical man. He followed every rule of the Bible, from the Ten Commandments down to stoning adulterers.
--"My Outsourced Life". An Esquire article about hiring a team of people in Bangalore, India to live his life for him – answer his emails, call his coworkers, argue with his wife, and read bedtime stories to his son.
--"My Life as a Hot Woman". A quest to find his beautiful nanny a boyfri...more


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If you read THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY, you might remember my biblical slave -- Kevin Roose. In the intervening couple of years, Kevin has been released from bondage and has written a remarkable book that comes out this week.

To back up: During my year, I was looking for a way to address slavery, because parts of the Bible seem to condone the practice. The closest thing to a legal slave in t... read more »
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Average rating: 3.74 · 56,930 ratings · 7,769 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors
The Year of Living Biblical...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 30,520 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions
The Know-It-All: One Man's ...
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 15,655 ratings — published 2004 — 28 editions
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man'...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 5,270 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions
The Guinea Pig Diaries: My ...
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 4,943 ratings — published 2009 — 15 editions
Fractured Fairy Tales
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
Esquire Presents: What It F...
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Kn...
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2011
The Two Kings: Jesus & Elvis
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings4 editions
America Off-Line
2.38 of 5 stars 2.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1996
Dirty Girls Make Bad Friends
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008
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“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”
A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

“Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes? ”
A.J. Jacobs, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment

“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking, than it is to think yourself into a new way of acting.”
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