On the Edge of Shattered
By: Kimberly Kearns
4.27
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
The true story of a descent into alcohol addiction--a harrowing and sometimes heartbreaking chronic…
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1. High on Arrival
By: Mackenzie Phillips
3.82
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
The eldest daughter of John Phillips and stepdaughter of Michelle Phillips, both lead singers of th… read more
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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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- memoir
3. In My Skin: A Memoir
By: Kate Holden
3.69
Format: 384 pages,
Kate Holden is used to being summed up at a glance: arts graduate, history buff, middle-class daugh… read more
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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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"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
5. 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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"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
6. Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
By: Elizabeth Vargas
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and … read more
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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
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8. 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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"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
9. 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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10. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
11. 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
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12. 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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"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
13. 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
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- memoir
14. Intoxicating Lies: One Woman’s Journey to Freedom from Gray Area Drinking
By: Meg Geisewite
4.27
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
Meg never hit a “rock bottom.” Most people think that in order to acknowledge and address a drin… read more
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15. 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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16. Highlight Real: Finding Honesty & Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition
A music prodigy, head of her class, and well-liked in school, Emily Paulson decided early that embe… read more
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"This wasn't me getting plastered and getting a DUI; this was me getting dinner with friends and being blacked out for days."-Emily Lynn Paulson, Highlight Real: Finding Honesty & Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life
17. 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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18. 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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19. On the Edge of Shattered
By: Kimberly Kearns
4.27
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
The true story of a descent into alcohol addiction--a harrowing and sometimes heartbreaking chronic… read more
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20. 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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21. It's Not About the Wine: The Loaded Truth Behind Mommy Wine Culture
By: Celeste Yvonne
3.84
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Alcohol isn't going to fix the systemic lack of support for mothers--and pretending it's the soluti… read more
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