Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (by Joshua Foer)

A fun memoir! Joshua Foer covers the U.S. Memory World Championships as a journalist, and then dedicates a year to the study of memory,  seeing if he can be a contender in the following year's championship. He studies with memory experts, learns the tricks of the trade, and tells us all about the history of memory and his own experiences. Thoroughly enjoyable -- and incidentally, left me with a wonderful mnemonic device to remember my husband's new phone number.