Julie & Julia, The Year of Living Biblically, a year of this, a year of that: the how-I-spent-a-year book now has a name,"annualist." This article from the BBC defines annualist as an adjective meaning "Journalistic work where protagonist endures ordeal, usually for year, then writes book about it."
Notes the article:
...there is something about these year-long ideas that entices publishers.
"It is like pitching a movie in one sentence," says [Graeme] Neill [of The Bookseller magazine]. "It's interesting to talk about and it makes for very readable, straightforward copy."
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