23 must-read biography books like Lush: A Memoir by Kerry Cohen

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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.…

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1. 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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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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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
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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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
  • 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

Similar categories in Caroline Knapp's Drinking: A Love Story book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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

6. 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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7. 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

Similar categories in Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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
  • 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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9. 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

Similar categories in Lisa F. Smith's Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Jowita Bydlowska's Drunk Mom book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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

11. 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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12. 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 Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Overcome: A Memoir Of Abuse, Addiction, Sex Work, and Recovery

By: Amber van de Bunt

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn’t like the other girls in town. From childhood s… read more

Similar categories in Amber van de Bunt's Overcome: A Memoir Of Abuse, Addiction, Sex Work, and Recovery book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. My Daddy Is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer

By: Lena Derhally

3.89

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband. A father. A killer. Chris Watts was a family man. Everybody, including his family, belie… read more

Similar categories in Lena Derhally's My Daddy Is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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15. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hefner's Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

By: Stephanie Wittels Wachs

4.29

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The space between life and death is a moment. But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousa… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Wittels Wachs's Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I often wonder when this will all end, but there is no end to grief. There's only navigating the way to a new normal."

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

"I noted how small I was compared to the sky. I saw that the world is beautiful. I heard my daughter say, "Wow." And I felt grateful."

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

"I finally understand the meaning of acceptance on the grief chart. It’s not that the bereaved ever accepts the death of the loved one—I will never accept your death—it’s that you come to accept that …"

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

"I think we're all just doing our best to survive the inevitable pain and suffering that walks alongside us through life. Long ago, it was wild animals and deadly poxes and harsh terrain. I learned ab…"

-Stephanie Wittels Wachs, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

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17. 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

Similar categories in Bryony Gordon's Glorious Rock Bottom book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Bedroom Window

By: K.L. Slater

3.80

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

They say they have no children. So who did I see at the window? My darling little boy Albie ador… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Slater's The Bedroom Window book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Laura McKowen's We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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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20. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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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21. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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22. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Gray's The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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

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23. 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

Similar categories in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. 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

Similar categories in Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir by Anna Marie Tendler

25. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

Similar categories in Anna Marie Tendler's Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir by Lotta Dann

26. 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

Similar categories in Lotta Dann's Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Damaged Goods : A Memoir by Shelley Louise

27. Damaged Goods : A Memoir

By: Shelley Louise

3.97

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a deeply personal story of a young woman’s journey through addiction; the loss of her child… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Louise's Damaged Goods : A Memoir book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Unfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness (5-Minute Therapy) by Faith G. Harper

28. Unfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness (5-Minute Therapy)

By: Faith G. Harper

3.71

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

If you've ever been so pissed off that you did things that you regretted, or ruined your own day an… read more

Similar categories in Faith G. Harper's Unfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness (5-Minute Therapy) book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Turkey: How to Quit Drinking by Not Drinking by Mishka Shubaly

29. Cold Turkey: How to Quit Drinking by Not Drinking

By: Mishka Shubaly

3.72

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From best-selling Kindle Singles author Mishka Shubaly comes Cold Turkey, a step by step roadmap fo… read more

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

30. 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 Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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31. The Wine O'Clock Myth: The Truth You Need To Know About Women and Alcohol

By: Lotta Dann

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'I deserve this.' 'This is my reward.' 'I'm allowed to treat myself.' Ever uttered these statements… read more

Similar categories in Lotta Dann's The Wine O'Clock Myth: The Truth You Need To Know About Women and Alcohol book and Kerry Cohen's Lush: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

23 Top audiobook books like Lush: A Memoir by Kerry Cohen

Transform Your Habits

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

Amy Dresner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Dry

Augusten Burroughs

4.03

Transform Your Habits

How to Murder Your Life

Cat Marnell

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Sarah Hepola

4.03

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28 best-selling audiobook books like The Wine O'Clock Myth: The Truth You Need To Know About Women and Alcohol by Lotta Dann

Transform Your Habits

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

Annie Grace

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Dry

Augusten Burroughs

4.03

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

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