Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#107 in Biography & memoir

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

First published 2012Original language EN

7.77.7 / 10
Score out of 10115 ratingsConfidence 44%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#107 of 122 in Biography & memoir ahead of 12% of the category
368
Pages
about 7 h
Reading time
  • NYT bestseller · 121 weeks on the list, peaked at #1

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About the book

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail is the 2012 memoir by the American writer, author, and podcaster Cheryl Strayed. The memoir describes Strayed's 1,100-mile (1,800 km) hike on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995 as a journey of self-discovery. The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list and was the first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.3 across 115 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Biography & memoir average of 8.1. That is how 7.7 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library7.742 37%
Google Books7.073 64%

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