10 must-read autobiography books like I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering by Janelle Hanchett

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I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering

By: Janelle Hanchett

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood." -- POPSUGAR "By…

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1. Crushed (Pretty Little Liars, #13)

By: Sara Shepard

3.94

Format: 336 pages, ebook

It's springtime in suburban Rosewood, which means iced soy lattes, fresh manicures in shimmering pa… read more

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"Catch me if you can -A"

-Sara Shepard, Crushed (Pretty Little Liars, #13)

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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
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

3. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

By: Koren Zailckas

4.00

Format: None pages,

For use in schools and libraries only. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas' story is t… read more

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

By: Augusten Burroughs

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was drunk from the attention"

-Augusten Burroughs, Dry

"His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade."

-Augusten Burroughs, Dry

"It's amazing how drunk you can be without alcohol."

-Augusten Burroughs, Dry

"When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all."

-Augusten Burroughs, Dry

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5. 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
  • 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

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6. Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister; a former rower and current cyclist; a best friend and a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Burned (Pretty Little Liars, #12) by Sara Shepard

7. Burned (Pretty Little Liars, #12)

By: Sara Shepard

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

It's spring break, and the pretty little liars are trading in Rosewood for a cruise vacation. They … read more

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8. Toxic (Pretty Little Liars, #15)

By: Sara Shepard

4.25

Format: 432 pages, ebook

One A has been captured...but the most dangerous A of all is still out there in the penultimate ins… read more

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9. 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
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10. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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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
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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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  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • 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

13. Stunning (Pretty Little Liars, #11)

By: Sara Shepard

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Now a hit ABC Family TV show, Sara Shepard's #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars seri… read more

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14. She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders

By: Jennifer Finney Boylan

3.71

Format: 76 pages,

The exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She's Not There is the st… read more

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15. Vicious (Pretty Little Liars, #16)

By: Sara Shepard

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Viciousis the explosive conclusion to Sara Shepard's #1 New York Timesbestselling Pretty Little Lia… read more

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16. 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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17. Ruthless (Pretty Little Liars, #10)

By: Sara Shepard

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

For years scandal has rocked Rosewood, Pennsylvania - and high school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, a… read more

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18. Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction

By: Elizabeth Vargas

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved former ABC  20/20  anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

19. Deadly (Pretty Little Liars #14)

By: Sara Shepard

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Deadly, the fourteenth volume in Sara Shepard's YA Pretty Little Liars series, delivers more juicy … read more

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20. The Night of the Gun

By: David Carr

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Do we remember only the stories we can live with?The ones that make us look good in the rearview mi… read more

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21. 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
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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23. Everything Is Fine

By: Vince Granata

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

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24. 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
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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26. All You Have to Do Is Call

By: Kerri Maher

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

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27. 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
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of The Manicurist's Daughter by Susan Lieu

28. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering

By: Janelle Hanchett

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood." -- POPSUGAR "By… read more

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  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

30. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Lush: A Memoir by Kerry Cohen

31. Lush: A Memoir

By: Kerry Cohen

3.24

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"For those of us wrestling with demons—and who isn't?—Lush is a solace and as powerful as red wine.… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

6 best-selling adult books like I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering by Janelle Hanchett

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Elizabeth Vargas

4.05

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Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

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Kathleen Hale

3.94

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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

4.09

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