16 Top memoir books like The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free by Amanda Eyre Ward

Cover of The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free by Amanda Eyre Ward

The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sober hedonist's guide to living a decadent, wild, and soulful life--alcohol-free. In a culture …

If you liked the memoir plot in The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free by Amanda Eyre Ward , here is a list of 16 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

Similar categories in Annie Grace's This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life book and Amanda Eyre Ward's The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
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
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
Cover of My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean by Amy Dresner

3. 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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • alcohol
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

4. 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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  • memoir
  • mental health
  • alcohol
  • nonfiction
  • 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

5. 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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • alcohol
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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

6. Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

By: None

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Combining in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, an award-winning journalist de… read more

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7. Drinking Games

By: Sarah Levy

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived — until… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Levy's Drinking Games book and Amanda Eyre Ward's The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
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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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
"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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
"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. 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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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
Cover of The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray

11. 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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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
"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 Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol by Ruby Warrington

12. Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol

By: Ruby Warrington

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Would life be better without alcohol? It’s the nagging question more and more of us are finding … read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • 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

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • alcohol
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You

By: Karolina Rzadkowolska

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Euphoric is your eight-week plan for an alcohol-free lifestyle that can lead to more happiness, wel… read more

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

16. 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
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free by Amanda Eyre Ward

17. The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sober hedonist's guide to living a decadent, wild, and soulful life--alcohol-free. In a culture … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • alcohol
  • self help
Cover of Nothing Good Can Come from This by Kristi Coulter

18. Nothing Good Can Come from This

By: Kristi Coulter

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Can you ask the bartender to make me something nonalcoholic that isn't sweet?'... What he got was a coupe glass filled with something that tasted a little like tea, a little like soda, and a lot like…"

-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This

"Yes, he had a temper that left at least one hole in our walls before he went to therapy and got a handle on it. But he treated me like a superhero princess and was also warm, responsible, hilarious, …"

-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This

"This is why I drank, you know. Because I wanted every day to be like that. I wanted every day to feel like a movie montage, or at least to end in an epiphany, or at least to have a clear narrative ar…"

-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This

"Because I just don't really care about what the liquid in my glass says about me anymore. I'd like to tell you it's because sobriety cured my need for specialness. I'd like to tell you I invented the…"

-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This

Cover of Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love by Amanda E. White

19. Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love

By: Amanda E. White

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this honest discussion of mental health, the founder of Therapy for Women explores our reasons f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control by Annie Grace

20. The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control

By: Annie Grace

4.31

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

Now complete with daily prompts to reflect on each day of a month-long, alcohol-free plan, the auth… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • alcohol
  • self help
Cover of Soberish: The Science-Based Guide to Taking Your Power Back from Alcohol by Kayla Lyons

21. Soberish: The Science-Based Guide to Taking Your Power Back from Alcohol

By: Kayla Lyons

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A non-judgemental guide to becoming “soberish”. Helps millennials and Gen Z create a relationship w… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health

17 Top audiobook books like The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free by Amanda Eyre Ward

Transform Your Habits

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

Annie Grace

4.25

Transform Your Habits

My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

Amy Dresner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Sarah Hepola

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Drinking Games

Sarah Levy

3.78

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18 Top audiobook books like Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, Limitless Presence, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol by Ruby Warrington

Transform Your Habits

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

Annie Grace

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Sarah Hepola

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir

Lisa F. Smith

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Drinking Games

Sarah Levy

3.78

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