Best Nonfiction of 2012: Memoir (page 3)

NONFICTION

Released: March 20, 2012

WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL

by Cheryl Strayed

"A candid, inspiring narrative of the author's brutal physical and psychological journey through a wilderness of despair to a renewed sense of self."

Unsentimental memoir of the author's three-month solo hike from California to Washington along the Pacific Crest Trail. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: March 13, 2012

THE PATAGONIAN HARE: A MEMOIR

by Claude Lanzmann, translated by Frank Wynne

""I am neither indifferent to, nor weary of, this world; had I a hundred lives, I know I would not tire of it," he writes. Intelligent readers will find it hard to argue."

Love and death go hand in hand in the life of journalist and filmmaker Lanzmann, who at 84 delivers his first book (originally published in France in 2009): a beautifully written memoir driven by both the writer's passion for living and his memories of lost friends. Read full book review >