15 best-selling memoir books like From the Brink of the Drink: A Personal Story of Tribulations and Triumphs of Alcoholism by Karla Juvonen

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From the Brink of the Drink: A Personal Story of Tribulations and Triumphs of Alcoholism

By: Karla Juvonen

4.43

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Brink of the Drink is the true story of an alcoholic woman, whom at the tender age of twel…

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Cover of This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life by Annie Grace

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

By: Annie Grace

4.25

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change … read more

Similar categories in Annie Grace's This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life book and Karla Juvonen's From the Brink of the Drink: A Personal Story of Tribulations and Triumphs of Alcoholism

  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"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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3. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"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

Cover of Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola

4. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"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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5. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health

6. 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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7. 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
Cover of Displaced: A Memoir by Esther Wiebe

8. Displaced: A Memoir

By: Esther Wiebe

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Displaced is a gripping true story of a young girl and her young siblings’ escape from a conservat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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9. 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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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"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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10. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowen

11. 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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  • memoir
  • health
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"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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12. Alcohol Explained

By: William Porter

4.36

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Alcohol Explained is the definitive, ground-breaking guide to alcohol and alcoholism. It explains h… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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13. Sober On A Drunk Planet: Giving Up Alcohol (Quit lit, #1)

By: Sean Alexander

3.97

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

The Unexpected Shortcut to Finding Happiness, Health and Financial Freedom What are the most min… read more

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  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol by Veronica Valli

14. Soberful: Uncover a Sustainable, Fulfilling Life Free of Alcohol

By: Veronica Valli

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

How to stop drinking, stay stopped, and develop emotional skills for a life of excitement and conne… read more

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  • self help
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • health
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15. Fullness: A Memoir

By: Azure Moyna

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Having recently gotten married, landed her first corporate management job and purchased her first h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
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16. Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter

By: Lynn Walker

4.35

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Lynn was the carefree daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent—until her dad snuck out of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Surviving Hell: A Personal Story of One Woman’s Journey to Overcome Alcoholism by Sheree Coleman

17. Surviving Hell: A Personal Story of One Woman’s Journey to Overcome Alcoholism

By: Sheree Coleman

4.10

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

“I have never read a more heartfelt account of a woman's battle with alcohol and its devastation.” … read more

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18. Sober Ever After: A Memoir

By: Jackie Elliott

4.15

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

Jackie Elliott loves her wine. It makes her feel confident and helps to relieve her anxiety. Drinki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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19. From the Brink of the Drink: A Personal Story of Tribulations and Triumphs of Alcoholism

By: Karla Juvonen

4.43

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Brink of the Drink is the true story of an alcoholic woman, whom at the tender age of twel… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Why Don't You Drink Alcohol?: 101 Reasons To Stop Drinking Like A Woman Called Karen And Why Sobriety Is The Key To Unleashing Your Best Self. Quit Lit For Women. (Sobriety books for women Book 1) by Sienna Green

20. Why Don't You Drink Alcohol?: 101 Reasons To Stop Drinking Like A Woman Called Karen And Why Sobriety Is The Key To Unleashing Your Best Self. Quit Lit For Women. (Sobriety books for women Book 1)

By: Sienna Green

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you know that indulging in just three alcoholic drinks per week increases a woman's risk of bre… read more

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Cover of Too Far Gone by A.T. Micalizzi

21. 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

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

22. 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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Cover of Don't Go There: A true and stark personal account of one man's battle with the bottle and his demons by Martin 'Jim' McFadden

23. Don't Go There: A true and stark personal account of one man's battle with the bottle and his demons

By: Martin 'Jim' McFadden

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

'Don’t Go There' is an honest account by Martin ‘Jim’ McFadden of his long battle with alcoholism. … read more

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Cover of My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking by Lisa May Bennett

24. My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

By: Lisa May Bennett

3.88

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Wicked hangovers. Scary blackouts. Ugly fights with friends. The results of binge drinking weigh he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Last Call: A Memoir by Nancy L. Carr

25. Last Call: A Memoir

By: Nancy L. Carr

3.94

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Memoir Synopsis “That evening I wanted to go to a teenage party, and I wanted to drink alcohol, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Day I Woke Up Dead: A Couple's Struggle Through Addiction by Susie McColl

26. The Day I Woke Up Dead: A Couple's Struggle Through Addiction

By: Susie McColl

4.08

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

To the world, the husband and wife team, Chris & Susie McColl, are always making others laugh and a… read more

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27. This Isn't Me!

By: Sonia Grimes

4.30

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

What makes one person a social drinker and another an alcoholic? How is it that some can drink for … read more

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Cover of Girl, Wasted: A Personal Story of Addiction, Obsession, and Redemption by Brittany Taltos

28. Girl, Wasted: A Personal Story of Addiction, Obsession, and Redemption

By: Brittany Taltos

3.81

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Brittany Taltos explores her progression into alcoholism, beginning with the familiar and ever-so-c… read more

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Cover of My Not So Secret Recovery: From The Author Of The Blog 'My Not So Secret Diary' by Claire H

29. My Not So Secret Recovery: From The Author Of The Blog 'My Not So Secret Diary'

By: Claire H

3.81

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

Claire Hatwell is a wife, a mother of four and an advocate for sober living, having fought a battle… read more

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Cover of Sick as My Secrets: A Memoir by Patricia L. Brooks

30. Sick as My Secrets: A Memoir

By: Patricia L. Brooks

3.81

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Sick As My Secrets is a powerful, compassionate, moving memoir told by a strong and honest woman wh… read more

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Cover of Stumbling Into Sobriety: And the Things I Learned on the Way Back Up by Tracy Collins

31. Stumbling Into Sobriety: And the Things I Learned on the Way Back Up

By: Tracy Collins

3.83

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Tracy Dot Com was a morning show personality in Jacksonville, Fla., dedicated to promoting awarenes… read more

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20 Top nonfiction books like From the Brink of the Drink: A Personal Story of Tribulations and Triumphs of Alcoholism by Karla Juvonen

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

Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Sarah Hepola

4.03

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Transform Your Habits

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

Amy Dresner

3.93

The Bitter Taste of Dying: A Memoir

Jason Smith

3.96

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Dry

Augusten Burroughs

4.03

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Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp

4.09

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