Angela's Ashes vs Wild: Which Should You Read?

Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt · 1996 ★★★★☆ 4.2 364 pages · ≈ 6 h 44 m · Light

“My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.”

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the…

Wild Cheryl Strayed · 1767 ★★★★☆ 4.5 336 pages · ≈ 6 h 13 m · Demanding

A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost…