19 best-selling nonfiction books like Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene B. Zimmerman

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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 …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene B. Zimmerman , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. 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

Similar categories in Amy Dresner's My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

By: Leslie Jamison

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Timesbestselling author of THE EMPATHY EXAMS, an exploration of addiction, and the … read more

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3. 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

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • medical
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me by Erin Khar

6. 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

Similar categories in Erin Khar's Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Ben Westhoff

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more

Similar categories in Ben Westhoff's Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • medical
  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • health
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9. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Anything for a Friend

By: Kathleen M. Willett

3.82

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

For two old friends with so much to hide, playing catch-up is a dangerous game in a propulsive nove… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen M. Willett's Anything for a Friend book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • audiobook
Cover of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

11. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene B. Zimmerman

12. 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

Similar categories in Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Cult Trip: Inside the world of Coercion and Control

By: Anke Richter

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A leading journalist's intense, riveting and personal investigation into the worlds and minds of cu… read more

Similar categories in Anke Richter's Cult Trip: Inside the world of Coercion and Control book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction by Dan Peres

14. As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction

By: Dan Peres

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of Mary Karr’s Lit, Augusten Burroughs’ Dry and Sarah Hepola’s Blackout, As Needed for … read more

Similar categories in Dan Peres's As Needed for Pain: A Memoir of Addiction book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found by Christie Tate

15. BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

By: Christie Tate

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” — Pit… read more

Similar categories in Christie Tate's BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

16. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

By: Catherine Cho

4.23

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Inferno is the riveting memoir of a young mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Cho's Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers by Helena Dea Bala

18. Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

By: Helena Dea Bala

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

It started with a single personal ad on Craigslist: tell me about yourself. Dea Bala never expected… read more

Similar categories in Helena Dea Bala's Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

19. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kiser's Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide

By: Rachel Zimmerman

4.41

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"This poignant, soul-baring memoir is truly one of the most moving accounts of grief, loss and resi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Zimmerman's Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll to Heroin Addict by Jude Hassan

21. 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

Similar categories in Jude Hassan's Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll to Heroin Addict book and Eilene B. Zimmerman's Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

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Amy Dresner

3.93

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Stash: My Life in Hiding

Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

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Between Two Trailers

J. Dana Trent

3.65

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Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

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Jenny Jackson

3.57

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Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

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Steven Rowley

3.64

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Rebecca Makkai

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