A review by ilovestory
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs

4.0

It was a unique memoir that follow's A.J.'s year of reading through the encyclopedia. He selects a few entries from each letter of the alphabet and tells us something -- usually humorous -- about it or his view of it, and weaves in stories from his childhood and his life as he goes through a year in which he and his wife are trying to conceive. I found it interesting, funny and educational.