Recommendations
Books Like Wild
Best books to read after Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed's Wild is the Pacific Crest Trail memoir of a woman recovering from loss, addiction, and grief. These recommendations continue the Strayed canon, explore the adventure and self-discovery memoir tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the book about what happens when a woman goes into the wilderness to find herself.
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Tiny Beautiful Things
by Cheryl Strayed
The companion Strayed book — her collected Dear Sugar advice columns from The Rumpus, the writing that most directly shows the wisdom and compassion that Wild earned; many readers consider this Strayed's best work.
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Brave Enough
by Cheryl Strayed
The companion Strayed collection — quotes from Strayed's work, organized thematically; for readers who want more of her voice in compact form.
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
The essential outdoor adventure companion — Chris McCandless abandoning his conventional life for the Alaskan wilderness; where Wild is about a woman finding herself through a hike she was prepared for imperfectly, Into the Wild is about a young man who went into the wilderness unprepared and did not survive it.
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Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
The extreme outdoor risk companion — Krakauer's first-hand account of the 1996 Everest disaster; shares Wild's immersive outdoor setting and its meditation on what we risk and what we gain from pushing against our limits.
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Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The most popular female self-discovery travel memoir companion — Gilbert's year in Italy, India, and Bali after her divorce; shares Wild's structure of a woman rebuilding herself through travel after the collapse of the life she thought she was going to have.
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The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
The chaotic childhood memoir companion — Walls's account of her nomadic, impoverished childhood and her escape; shares Wild's interest in a woman who has to construct her own stability out of almost nothing.
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Educated
by Tara Westover
The self-education memoir companion — Westover growing up in a survivalist Idaho family and by determination earning a Cambridge PhD; shares Wild's portrait of a woman finding herself through the discipline of making something very hard work.
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A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson
The comic outdoor adventure companion — Bryson attempting to hike the Appalachian Trail with an old friend; where Wild is a solo memoir of transformation, A Walk in the Woods is a social comedy set on the parallel trail, both sharing the same idea that walking a long trail in America is something worth doing for reasons you may not fully understand until you are doing it.
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