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

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  1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

    Greg Mortenson · 2006

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir, adventure.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

  2. Spare

    Prince Harry · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, grief.

    Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…

  3. Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, adventure.

    McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.

  4. Tuesdays with Morrie

    Mitch Albom · 1997

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, grief.

    A sportswriter visits his old professor each Tuesday as ALS takes hold, talking through love, work, aging, and death in short lessons that…

  5. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

  6. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

    Corrie ten Boom · 1971

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.

  7. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Lori Gottlieb · 2019

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.

  8. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.

  9. Everything I Know About Love

    Dolly Alderton · 2018

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.

  10. Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.

  11. Crying in H Mart

    Michelle Zauner · 2021

    Because shares tags: memoir, grief.

    Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon.

  12. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

    Bill Bryson · 1998

    Because shares tags: memoir, hiking.

    Bryson and friend Katz attempt the Appalachian Trail with blisters, bears, and laughs.

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