Year of Yes

Rhimes wrote this memoir after her sister needled her for always saying no. For one year she committed to saying yes to everything that scared her, public speaking, unplugging from work, and hard conversations about her health and happiness, and this book chronicles what changed. Warm, funny, and candid about anxiety and overwork, it reads less like a celebrity memoir than a friend’s account of learning to inhabit her own life. It became a word-of-mouth bestseller.