14 Best biography memoir books like Nothing Good Can Come from This by Kristi Coulter

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Nothing Good Can Come from This

By: Kristi Coulter

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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"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 belonging. It was delicious."

-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, and kind to children and animals."

-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 arc, or at least to make some level of sense."

-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 stapler and can start fires with my mind. But no."

-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This

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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

Similar categories in Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic's Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. 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 Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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3. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Hepola's Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • self help
  • 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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4. 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 Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • self help
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. 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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6. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
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8. 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 Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
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9. 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 Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • self help
  • 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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10. 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

Similar categories in Holly Whitaker's Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • self help
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • 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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11. Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

By: Jennifer Palmieri

3.90

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling vol… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Palmieri's Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Her-story. Don't search for your role is his-tory, write your own. The future is female. The past was too it's just that no one thought it important enough to bother writing it all down."

-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

"Emotions were running so high in the country that I feared there was going to be some violence before the election. I even half-jokingly said to Hillary one day in October that it was beginning to fe…"

-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

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12. 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

Similar categories in Erica C. Barnett's Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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14. 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

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) by Laura McKowen

15. 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

Similar categories in Laura McKowen's Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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

Similar categories in Catherine Gray's Sunshine Warm Sober: Unexpected sober joy that lasts book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

Similar categories in Amanda Eyre Ward's The Sober Lush: A Hedonist's Guide to Living a Decadent, Adventurous, Soulful Life--Alcohol Free book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • self help
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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19. Nothing Good Can Come from This

By: Kristi Coulter

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • self help
"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 How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon by Lyn Slater

20. How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

By: Lyn Slater

3.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” brings her characte… read more

Similar categories in Lyn Slater's How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon book and Kristi Coulter's Nothing Good Can Come from This

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help

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