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Wild
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Fear to a great extent is born of a story we tell ourselves.
What they say about it
- Writing about her dead mother“I don't want to write about my dead mother”2
The best things said about it
I need to shout from a mountaintop. I need to shout on the web. I need to tell everybody I know about this book.
Oprah Winfrey Oprah's Super Soul · Oct 2026 Cheryl Strades, best-selling book wild, captivated millions of readers, and inspired and Oscar nominated films.
I read Wild and Gone Girl in galleys.
A book called Wild which was a hugely successful book, it was chosen as an Oprah book and it will be on bookstore shelves for the rest of history.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir, Wild, chronicles her grueling 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail as a journey of emotional healing and personal transformation following profound personal loss. The host of Oprah's Super Soul introduced the book as a captivating memoir that inspired an Oscar-nominated film, while Oprah Winfrey shared on the same program why she felt compelled to bring back her book club specifically to champion it. Cheryl Strayed reflected on how the overwhelming success of the memoir served as a profound affirmation for taking risks in her writing. Suleika Jaouad noted on How I Write that Strayed had initially expressed hesitation about writing a book centered on her late mother before landing on the Pacific Crest Trail hike. Reese Witherspoon discussed on Las Culturistas that she read the galley of Wild prior to producing and starring in the film adaptation. Additionally, Angela Duckworth brought up the memoir on No Stupid Questions while discussing voluntary solitude, and Pamela Paul along with Gilbert Cruz mentioned the book on The Book Review in discussions of popular memoirs and reading lists.
Every mention
Pamela Paul two of the most um successful narratives by women in recent years have been exactly that kind of redemption… 2
Discussed
“two of the most um successful narratives by women in recent years have been exactly that kind of redemption narrative wilded by Cheryl sted and Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert”
Discussed
“it sort of felt like wild did back when Cheryl stres wild which I also resisted because too many people were reading it”
Suleika Jaouad And she said to me the funny thing about that is that when I went to go right wild you know famous Memoir a… 2
Discussed
“And she said to me, you know, when I went to write the book that became Wild, I kept telling everyone around me, I don't want to write about my dead mother. All I write about is my dead mother. And of course the book she wrote ended up being about this hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, but it's”
Discussed
“And she said to me the funny thing about that is that when I went to go right wild you know famous Memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail I told myself whatever it is that I write about I don't want to write about my dead mother”
Angela Duckworth did you ever read that book by Cheryl sted what is it even called she like goes on the Appalachian Trail is… 1
Discussed
“did you ever read that book by Cheryl sted what is it even called she like goes on the Appalachian Trail is it wild that's right”
Brad Barrett and in a chapter entitled what stories are you telling yourself he describes this quote that he read from C… 1
Discussed
“and in a chapter entitled what stories are you telling yourself he describes this quote that he read from Cheryl straid in the book Wild and it said fear to a great extent is born of a story We Tell ourselves”
Cheryl Strayed Well, I would say that that's one of the most important lessons I learned through the success of wild is th… 1
Discussed
“Well, I would say that that's one of the most important lessons I learned through the success of wild is that it was such an affirmation that if you take that risk...”
Chuck Palahniuk and one of the writers in our workshop is a writer named Cheryl Strayed who had written a book called wild… 1
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“and one of the writers in our workshop is a writer named Cheryl Strayed who had written a book called wild which was a hugely successful book it was chosen as an Oprah book and it will be on bookstore shelves for the rest of history”
Gilbert Cruz Pamela mentioned The Glass Castle that's not on there Cheryl str's wild which I really enjoyed but didn't m… 1
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“Pamela mentioned The Glass Castle that's not on there Cheryl str's wild which I really enjoyed but didn't make the cut”
Jedidiah Jenkins it's like I was just as impacted by her book, "Tiny Beautiful Things" as I was with "Wild", which is so int… 1
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“it's like I was just as impacted by her book, "Tiny Beautiful Things" as I was with "Wild", which is so interesting because this is similar in that structure of one is an adventure and well”
Oprah Winfrey I said I have to bring back the book club because I can't keep it to myself. I just can't keep it to myself… 1
Book club
“I said I have to bring back the book club because I can't keep it to myself. I just can't keep it to myself. I need to shout from a mountaintop. I need to shout on the web. I need to tell everybody I know about this book.”
Reese Witherspoon I read Wild and Gone Girl in Galleys. 1
Discussed
“I read Wild and Gone Girl in Galleys.”
Tim Ferriss sample answer from Cheryl Strayed best-selling author of wild 1
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“sample answer from Cheryl Strayed best-selling author of wild”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“Cheryl Strades, best-selling book wild, captivated millions of readers, and inspired and Oscar nominated films.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Also, Cheryl Strayed's book, Wild, is about the author's experience hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, not the Appalachian Trail.”
Passing
“he writes screenplays for other people including most recently um wild which was Cheryl str's Memoir turned into a big movie with Reese Witherspoon”
Passing
“I mean they've been helping them quite a bit with really successful adaptations of books like Gone Girl wild Now American snipers and theaters and that selling really well”
Passing
“I was thinking more of like Cheryl Stray Stra's like wild, you know, like I'm on the doing the Appalachian Trail, you know, maybe I stab something to eat”
Passing
“I just watched that Wild Whites of West Virginia I mean those people believe probably things that you would be amazed I don't think they're”