Eat, Pray, Love vs Wild: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir
Eat, Pray, Love
This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success…
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Wild
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…
The verdict
- Readers rate Wild highest: Wild 4.5 · Eat, Pray, Love 3.6.
- Wild is the quickest read — about 6 hours vs 8 for Eat, Pray, Love.
- Eat, Pray, Love has the widest readership — 1868029 ratings behind its score.
- Wild runs the darker storyline; Eat, Pray, Love stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
Wild
≈ 6h vs 8h for Eat, Pray, Love
Want the crowd-tested pick?
Eat, Pray, Love
1868029 ratings vs 6420 for Wild
Just want the better-reviewed one?
Wild
4.5 vs 3.6 from readers
New to the genre?
Eat, Pray, Love
Moderate vs Demanding for Wild
In the mood for something dark?
Wild
a darker storyline than Eat, Pray, Love
Scores by source
| Eat, Pray, Love | Wild | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.6 (1868029) | 3.9 (93) |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (588) | 3.8 (2) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (3) | 3.5 (73) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.5 (6420) |
Reception
| Eat, Pray, Love | Wild | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1868029 | 6420 |
| Editions | 64 | 31 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 765882 | 90 |
| Reading it now | 29754 | 5 |
| Written reviews | 61958 | 15 |
| Wikipedia attention | 828 | 753 |
| Pages | 479 | 336 |