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Books Like Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer · about this book

Loved Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer? If its nonfiction, male lead and tragic hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Complete Maus, Eat, Pray, Love and The Diary of a Young Girl. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Into the Wild: Nonfiction · Male Lead · Tragic · Biography · Leaving Home

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   The Complete Maus

   Art Spiegelman

   Biography · Survival Story · Tragic · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction

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   Eat, Pray, Love

   Elizabeth Gilbert

   Travel Writing · Nonfiction · Finding Purpose · Memoir & Biography · Self-Discovery

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   The Diary of a Young Girl

   Anne Frank

   Tragic · Survival Story · Nonfiction · Haunting · Memoir & Biography

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   My Next Breath

   Jeremy Renner

   Snow and Ice · Survival Story · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Finding Purpose

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   Lord of the Flies

   William Golding

   Survival Story · Tragic · Rebellion Against Authority · Male Lead · Adventure

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   I Who Have Never Known Men

   Jacqueline Harpman

   Haunting · Survival Story · Finding Purpose · Self-Discovery · Emotional

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   The Warmth of Other Suns

   Isabel Wilkerson

   Leaving Home · Biography · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Emotional

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   Sunrise on the Reaping

   Suzanne Collins

   Survival Story · Tragic · Rebellion Against Authority · Emotional · Male Lead

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9. 

   Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

   Adam Higginbotham

   Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Tragic · Haunting · Emotional

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10. 

    Spare

    Prince Harry

    Estranged Family · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Male Lead · Emotional

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    The Nightingale

    Kristin Hannah

    Estranged Family · Survival Story · Tragic · Haunting · Emotional

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12. 

    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Hallie Rubenhold

    Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Bleak

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    Marsha

    Tourmaline

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Rebellion Against Authority · Emotional

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    What My Bones Know

    Stephanie Foo

    Estranged Family · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Self-Discovery · Emotional

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    Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

    Mary L Trump

    Biography · Memoir & Biography · Estranged Family · Nonfiction · Toxic Family Dynamics

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    Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

    Sarafina El-Badry Nance

    Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Finding Purpose · Self-Discovery · Emotional

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17. 

    The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    Survival Story · Nature Writing · Haunting · Male Lead · Emotional

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18. 

    The Spy and the Traitor

    Ben Macintyre

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Investigative Journalism · Male Lead

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19. 

    Michael Jordan

    Roland Lazenby

    Biography · Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Investigative Journalism · Male Lead

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20. 

    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Tragic · Haunting · Snow and Ice · Male Lead · Emotional

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