Brain on fire vs Wild: Which Should You Read?

Brain on fire Susannah Cahalan · 2012 ★★★★☆ 4.4 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Moderate

The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. She wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the events of the previous…

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…