8 best-selling biography memoir books like The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. by Clare Pooley

Cover of The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. by Clare Pooley

The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

By: Clare Pooley

4.37

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

BY THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, THE BRAVE AND FUNNY MEMOIR THA…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. by Clare Pooley , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace

1. This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

By: Annie Grace

4.25

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change … read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
Cover of Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety by Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic

2. Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety

By: Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The single glass of wine with dinner. . .the cold beer on a hot day. . .the champagne flute raised … read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
Cover of Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

3. 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
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
"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

Cover of Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola

4. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

By: Sarah Hepola

4.03

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure" for Sarah Hepola. She spent her evenings at cocktail pa… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
"I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure."

-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

"That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding."

-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

"Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience."

-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

"I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?"

-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

5. A Happier Hour

By: None

4.43

Format: 63 pages,

When Rebecca Weller's pounding, dehydrated head woke her at 3am, yet again, she stared at the ceili… read more

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Cover of Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir by Lisa F. Smith

6. 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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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
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7. Glorious Rock Bottom

By: Bryony Gordon

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and dru… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowen

8. We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

By: Laura McKowen

4.33

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

"A masterpiece. The truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s goin… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
"Maybe it’s helpful to linger there for a minute, in the terrible and the necessary. To start to see them as the same. Maybe in this way, pain is not such a problem"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The typical question is, Is this bad enough for me to have to change? The question we should be asking is, Is this good enough for me to stay the same? And the real question underneath it all is, Am …"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"The truest story - the one that will always be truest - is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes, I am my best self. Sometimes, not so much. But goddamn, I am trying to do better. I am alwa…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

"Lying and withholding is the cheapest, easiest way to control others. You control their perception, control their response to you, control who you need them to be, In telling the truth, I was surrend…"

-Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

Cover of Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker

9. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

By: Holly Whitaker

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety. “You don… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
"OK,"

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"Alcohol is the only drug in the world where, when you stop taking it, you are seen as having a disease."

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"...we've reached a tipping point--more [women] are aware of the terms of our own oppression and of our complicity in the oppression of others."

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

"Americans aren't stupid. We are, however, preternaturally disposed to herd behavior (FOMO), with a strong desire to preserve a sense of individuality and maintain control over our decision making. We…"

-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

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10. The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

By: Catherine Gray

4.33

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point'… read more

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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
"I'm free from all of that "where's the next drink coming from?" stress. At one point I mislay my water. So what? If that had been wine, I would have been crushed, and annoyed for the next hour. I pro…"

-Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

"He gave me so many anti-anxiety techniques. Reciting the alphabet backwards if I'm walking to a boozy party and feel my heart start to jackhammer. Tapping along to a song, which does something fancy …"

-Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

Cover of Alcohol Explained by William Porter

11. Alcohol Explained

By: William Porter

4.36

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Alcohol Explained is the definitive, ground-breaking guide to alcohol and alcoholism. It explains h… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • psychology
  • alcohol
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Alcohol Lied to Me: The Intelligent Way to Escape Alcohol Addiction by Craig Beck

12. Alcohol Lied to Me: The Intelligent Way to Escape Alcohol Addiction

By: Craig Beck

4.06

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Craig Beck is a well-regarded family man with two children, a beautiful home, and a successful medi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
Cover of The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. by Clare Pooley

13. The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

By: Clare Pooley

4.37

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

BY THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, THE BRAVE AND FUNNY MEMOIR THA… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. book and Clare Pooley's The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • humor
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
Cover of Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) by Laura McKowen

14. Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else)

By: Laura McKowen

4.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery commun… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Sunshine Warm Sober: Unexpected sober joy that lasts by Catherine Gray

15. Sunshine Warm Sober: Unexpected sober joy that lasts

By: Catherine Gray

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The new book from Catherine Gray - icon of the Quit Lit movement and author of The Unexpected Joy o… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • alcohol
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sober On A Drunk Planet: Giving Up Alcohol (Quit lit, #1) by Sean  Alexander

16. Sober On A Drunk Planet: Giving Up Alcohol (Quit lit, #1)

By: Sean Alexander

3.97

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

The Unexpected Shortcut to Finding Happiness, Health and Financial Freedom What are the most min… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • health
Cover of Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol by Veronica Valli

17. Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol

By: Veronica Valli

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How to stop drinking, stay stopped, and develop emotional skills for a life of excitement and conne… read more

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  • self help
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

18. 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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  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
Cover of Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir by Lotta Dann

19. Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir

By: Lotta Dann

4.00

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Lotta Dann was in trouble - her fun drinking habit had slowly morphed into an obsessive hunger for … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
Cover of The Sober Girl Society Handbook: An Empowering Guide to Living Hangover Free by Millie Gooch

20. The Sober Girl Society Handbook: An Empowering Guide to Living Hangover Free

By: Millie Gooch

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part survival guide, this is an empowering self-help book with a simple message at its… read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
Cover of Sober Ever After: A Memoir by Jackie Elliott

21. Sober Ever After: A Memoir

By: Jackie Elliott

4.15

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

Jackie Elliott loves her wine. It makes her feel confident and helps to relieve her anxiety. Drinki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • memoir
  • self help

15 must-read audiobook books like The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. by Clare Pooley

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Annie Grace

4.25

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Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Sarah Hepola

4.03

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Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir

Lisa F. Smith

4.15

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Bryony Gordon

4.34

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Amy Dresner

3.93

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Jason Smith

3.96

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Augusten Burroughs

4.03

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Caroline Knapp

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