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
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
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
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
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
- 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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- 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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
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
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- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- 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
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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- audiobook
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
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- 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
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
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
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- 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
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
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- 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
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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
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
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
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
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
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
