11 Best biography memoir books like One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery by Jordan P. Barnes

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One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery

By: Jordan P. Barnes

4.46

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

AWARD WINNER - 2020 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, INDIES TODAY At the age of 24, Jordan Barnes woke up …

If you liked the biography memoir plot in One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery by Jordan P. Barnes , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Coming Clean

By: Kimberly Rae Miller

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunning memoir about a childhood spent growing up in a family of extreme hoarders and hiding squ… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean by Amy Dresner

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
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
Cover of Running in Circles: A Memoir by Eva Yin

3. Running in Circles: A Memoir

By: Eva Yin

3.91

Format: 360 pages,

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  • memoir
Cover of American Drug Addict: a memoir by Brett Douglas

4. American Drug Addict: a memoir

By: Brett Douglas

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Dreamseller

By: Brandon Novak , Joseph Frantz

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Skateboarding used to be my life. When I was fourteen years old, I was discovered by Bucky Lasek an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

6. 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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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

7. The Bitter Taste of Dying: A Memoir

By: Jason Smith

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Black Tar: For the Love of Heroin

By: Stephen E. Crockett

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Black Tar: For The Love of Heroin is a biographical essay describing the use of heroin and the toll… read more

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  • memoir

9. Diary of a Drug Addict

By: Stephen E. Crockett

4.01

Format: 217 pages,

A heroin addict looks back over a life of misery and addiction. From his earliest days experimentin… read more

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10. Hammered: Memoir of an Addict

By: Geoff Brown

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

GNBraun led a life of addiction and slow decay. Drugs, crime and ennui pervaded every part of his d… read more

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11. I Forgot to Die

By: None

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie … read more

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12. Wasting Talent

By: None

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Paperback

His music could have made Damien Cantwell the star of his generation. But living fast has its conse… read more

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13. Running From The Mirror

By: Howard Shulman

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, l… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined."

-Howard Shulman, Running From The Mirror

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14. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Asylum Confessions: Family Matters (The Asylum Confession Files, #2)

By: Jack Steen

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

They arrive alive. They leave dead. But first, they give me their confessions and this time - it… read more

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16. The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery

By: David Poses

4.23

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitc… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"From the beginning of high school, all other substances were readily available and liberally consumed by my friends, who used weed and booze like an essential garnish for activities. Peer pressure wa…"

-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery

"I didn’t want to be sad, but I didn’t know why I was sad or how not to be sad or how to talk about it. I was broken. I felt broken. My body ached. My stomach hurt. I couldn’t sleep. Nothing was pleas…"

-David Poses, The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery

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17. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

By: Erin Khar

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.” — New York Times… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

By: Tiffany Jenkins

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A few years ago, Tiffany Jenkins was detoxing behind bars at a Florida prison, incarcerated on 20 f… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…"

-Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

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19. Broken : The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told

By: Shy Keenan

4.56

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert fro… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.

20. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

By: McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Chasing A Flawed Sun

By: Daniel McGhee

4.32

Format: 460 pages, Kindle Edition

★"Riveting" ★      ★"I Couldn't put it down!"★       ★"Not just another addiction memoir" ★      ★"… read more

Similar categories in Daniel McGhee's Chasing A Flawed Sun book and Jordan P. Barnes's One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

22. 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
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
Cover of One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery by Jordan P. Barnes

23. One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery

By: Jordan P. Barnes

4.46

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

AWARD WINNER - 2020 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, INDIES TODAY At the age of 24, Jordan Barnes woke up … read more

Similar categories in Jordan P. Barnes's One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery book and Jordan P. Barnes's One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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24. Addiction

By: Margaret McHeyzer

4.48

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestselling Author of Ugly and Mistrust.Meth, crank, ice, glass, fire, tina, chalk,… read more

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Cover of In Pillness and in Health: A Memoir by Henriette Ivanans

25. In Pillness and in Health: A Memoir

By: Henriette Ivanans

4.34

Format: 310 pages, ebook

What if your husband gave you a kidney and you chugged a beer with your painkillers the next day? W… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. Too Far Gone

By: A.T. Micalizzi

3.89

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for ASIN B07C8GN4BR For previous cover edition see here Is one more dri… read more

Similar categories in A.T. Micalizzi's Too Far Gone book and Jordan P. Barnes's One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery

  • nonfiction
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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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28. Junkie: Madness to Ministry

By: Dawn Searock

4.22

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Dawn. A woman bound in the addiction of heroin and crack cocaine. Witness as she commits crime… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Finishing Off the Bottle: A Memoir of Addiction and Self-Discovery by Bruce Hidasch

29. Finishing Off the Bottle: A Memoir of Addiction and Self-Discovery

By: Bruce Hidasch

3.97

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

For Bruce, alcohol was the solution to every problem. From stress and anxiety to real loss, booze w… read more

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30. Should've Been Dead: Lessons from a Crack Addict Who Broke Free

By: Sweta Patel

4.59

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

“Just to warn you, he swears. A lot.” I prepped my high school class for tomorrow’s speaker. “He… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. 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
  • memoir

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