Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
By: Erin Khar
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption
By: Katherine Ketcham , William Cope Moyers
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
2. My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
By: Amy Dresner
3.93
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight , a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
4. Dreamseller
By: Brandon Novak , Joseph Frantz
4.04
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Skateboarding used to be my life. When I was fourteen years old, I was discovered by Bucky Lasek an… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
5. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
3.34
Format: 320 pages,
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Drinking: A Love Story
By: Caroline Knapp
4.09
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored i… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"When you quit drinking you stop waiting."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
7. In My Skin: A Memoir
By: Kate Holden
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
Kate Holden is used to being summed up at a glance: arts graduate, history buff, middle-class daugh… read more
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8. We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
By: Nic Sheff
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster r… read more
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9. Permanent Midnight
By: Jerry Stahl
4.00
Format: None pages, Trade Paperback
His byline appeared everywhere, from L.A. Styleto the Village Voice, from Esquireto Hustler. He pen… read more
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10. How to Murder Your Life
By: Cat Marnell
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotio… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
By: Lisa F. Smith
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in NYC when alcoholism and drug addi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- psychology
- mental health
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
13. Drunk Mom
By: Jowita Bydlowska
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagn… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult."-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom
"It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being u…"-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom
14. I Forgot to Die
By: None
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie … read more
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15. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
By: Melissa Bond
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Stash: My Life in Hiding
By: Laura Cathcart Robbins
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Between Two Trailers
By: J. Dana Trent
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
By: David Poses
4.23
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitc… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"From the beginning of high school, all other substances were readily available and liberally consumed by my friends, who used weed and booze like an essential garnish for activities. Peer pressure wa…"-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
"I didn’t want to be sad, but I didn’t know why I was sad or how not to be sad or how to talk about it. I was broken. I felt broken. My body ached. My stomach hurt. I couldn’t sleep. Nothing was pleas…"-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
19. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me
By: Erin Khar
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” — New York Times… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
20. Fi: A Memoir of My Son
By: Alexandra Fuller
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.” And so begins Alexan… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...time is only as dense as the thoughts that you push through it."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"You can give your child anything. You can give him his life, even, but not yours. And you can't give him his life back, once lost."-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"The way a pilot sees wind in clouds or a sailor reads currents in water, I look unconsciously for stories to remind me where I am, to remind me that whatever I'm going through, millions have been her…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
"One of millions of mothers to have lost a child every year, fifteen thousand a day. If none of us suffered, where would we be? Without wise women is where; suffering brings wisdom. So, a gift, this s…"-Alexandra Fuller, Fi: A Memoir of My Son
21. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
By: Tiffany Jenkins
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A few years ago, Tiffany Jenkins was detoxing behind bars at a Florida prison, incarcerated on 20 f… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…"-Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
22. Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
By: Erica C. Barnett
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Erica C. Barnett had her first sip of alcohol when she was thirteen, and she quickly developed a ta… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental illness
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy
By: Eilene B. Zimmerman
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A journalist pieces together the mysteries surrounding her ex-husband's unexpected death from drug … read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir
By: Brandon Novak
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
“Skate, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll!”—Kat Von D, LA Ink Forward by Tony Hawk Skateboarder and Jackas… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
26. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol
By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery
By: Jordan P. Barnes
4.46
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
AWARD WINNER - 2020 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, INDIES TODAY At the age of 24, Jordan Barnes woke up … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
28. Hit So Hard: A Memoir
By: Patty Schemel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer P… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. Kin
By: Shawna Kay Rodenberg
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrep… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
30. Sick: A Memoir
By: Porochista Khakpour
3.34
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In the tradition of Brain on Fire and Darkness Visible, an honest, beautifully rendered memoir of c… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"And the deal with so many chronic illnesses is that most people won't want to believe you. They will tell you that you look great, that it might be in your head only, that it is likely stress, that e…"-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir
"It is no coincidence then that doctors and patients and the entire Lyme community report—anecdotally, of course, as there is still a frustrating scarcity of good data on anything Lyme-related—that wo…"-Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir
31. Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll to Heroin Addict
By: Jude Hassan
4.17
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Jude Hassan was an ordinary, all-American kid. He had two amazing parents who gave him everything, … read more
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- biography
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