Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos
By: Walt Gleeson
3.83
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Lost in Yaba is a true story about an expat who becomes addicted to the infamous drug 'yaba' in Lao…
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1. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
By: Bill Clegg
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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2. Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon
By: Patrick O'Brian , Henri Charrière
3.81
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
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3. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
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"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
4. Factotum
By: Charles Bukowski
3.93
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
One of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of as… read more
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"عشق به درد آدمهای واقعی میخورد."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"Моята пияна от бира душа е по-тъжна от всички мъртви коледни елхи по света"-Charles Bukowski, Factotum
5. The Basketball Diaries
By: Jim Carroll
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball. Jim Carroll grew up to … read more
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"they're fucking up minds they do not own."-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
"Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York."-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
"Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure."-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
"It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat…"-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
6. Mr. Nice
By: Howard Marks
3.60
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
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7. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
By: Nic Sheff
3.34
Format: 320 pages,
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl… read more
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8. Columbine
By: Dave Cullen
4.29
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
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"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
9. Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
By: Rusty Young , Thomas McFadden
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
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10. The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
By: Warren Fellows
2.75
Format: None pages,
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11. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
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12. The Beach
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4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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13. Requiem for a Dream
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4.14
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14. Go Ask Alice
By: Anonymous , Beatrice Sparks
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
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15. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
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3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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4.57
Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition
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"The girl's cigarette released this shocking pink smoke reserved for the feminine genre."-Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday
19. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
By: David Sheff
4.16
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
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20. Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos
By: Walt Gleeson
3.83
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. Hail Strike (Hail #3)
By: Brett Arquette
4.85
Format: 371 pages, ebook
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