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Books Like Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

by Cheryl Strayed · about this book

Loved Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed? If its nonfiction, starting over and emotional hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Eat, Pray, Love, Becoming and Crying in H Mart: A Memoir. 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 Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail: Nonfiction · Starting Over · Emotional · Memoir & Biography · Mother and Daughter

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   Eat, Pray, Love

   Elizabeth Gilbert

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   Becoming

   Michelle Obama

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Uplifting · Nonfiction · Hopeful

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   Hayden Panettiere

   Recovery Journey · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Trauma Recovery · Grief and Mourning

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   Under the Tuscan Sun

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   Travel Writing · Memoir & Biography · Starting Over · Nonfiction · Uplifting

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   Tess of the Road

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   Trauma Recovery · Leaving Home · Self-Discovery · Starting Over · Mother and Daughter

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   I'm Glad My Mom Died

   Jennette McCurdy

   Memoir & Biography · Mother and Daughter · Grief Over a Parent · Trauma Recovery · Nonfiction

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   Gather

   Kenneth M. Cadow

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    The Diary of a Young Girl

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    Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Survival Story · Nonfiction · Emotional

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    Stephanie Foo

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    Spare

    Prince Harry

    Autobiography · Grief Over a Parent · Memoir & Biography · Death of a Parent · Nonfiction

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    Becoming Ted

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    Uplifting · Starting Over · Self-Discovery · Hopeful · Finding Purpose

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

    Sarafina El-Badry Nance

    Memoir & Biography · Trauma Recovery · Nonfiction · Finding Purpose · Self-Discovery

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    The Secret Life of Bees

    Sue Monk Kidd

    Leaving Home · Grief Over a Parent · Death of a Parent · Self-Discovery · Hopeful

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    The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    Survival Story · Grief and Mourning · Nature Writing · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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    The Wedding People

    Alison Espach

    Starting Over · Marriage in Trouble · Finding Purpose · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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    The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy

    Elizabeth Kendall

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Recovery Journey · Trauma Recovery · First Person Narrator

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    Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash

    Laura Clery

    Recovery Journey · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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