5 Top autobiography books like Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

Cover of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

By: Koren Zailckas

4.00

Format: None pages,

For use in schools and libraries only. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas' story is t…

If you liked the autobiography plot in Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward, Mary Boykin Chesnut

1. Mary Chesnut's Civil War

By: C. Vann Woodward , Mary Boykin Chesnut

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An authorized account of the Civil War, for which editor C. Vann Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Pri… read more

Similar categories in C. Vann Woodward's Mary Chesnut's Civil War book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming by Shreve Stockton

2. The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming

By: Shreve Stockton

3.10

Format: 271 pages,

When photographer and writer Shreve Stockton decided to move back to her beloved New York from San … read more

Similar categories in Shreve Stockton's The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City by Alexandra David-Néel

3. My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

By: Alexandra David-Néel

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David-Neel of… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra David-Néel's My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Goodbye, Walter by RuthAnn Hogue, C. Stratton Hill

4. Goodbye, Walter

By: RuthAnn Hogue , C. Stratton Hill

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In February of 1997, Walter Schifter was dying of cancer. During the final three weeks of his life,… read more

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5. Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story

By: Tim Jones , Libby Riddles

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Libby Riddles wanted an adventure. At the age of 16 she left home for the snowy frontiers of Alaska… read more

Similar categories in Tim Jones's Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

6. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

By: Koren Zailckas

4.00

Format: None pages,

For use in schools and libraries only. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas' story is t… read more

Similar categories in Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Not a Perfect Fit: Stories from Jane's World by Jane A. Schmidt

7. Not a Perfect Fit: Stories from Jane's World

By: Jane A. Schmidt

3.93

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Not a Perfect Fit is a collection of stories that are laugh-out-loud funny one minute and thought-p… read more

Similar categories in Jane A. Schmidt's Not a Perfect Fit: Stories from Jane's World book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • nonfiction
Cover of My Hero, My Ding by Lisa A. Tortorello

8. My Hero, My Ding

By: Lisa A. Tortorello

4.05

Format: 128 pages, Perfect Paperback

'I awoke in the darkness listening to the sound of a jack hammer. After a few moments, I realized i… read more

Similar categories in Lisa A. Tortorello's My Hero, My Ding book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

"It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong."

-Lisa A. Tortorello, My Hero, My Ding

Cover of Will Love For Crumbs by Jonna Ivin

9. Will Love For Crumbs

By: Jonna Ivin

3.62

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs o… read more

Similar categories in Jonna Ivin's Will Love For Crumbs book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There is absolutely no reason to be a dick, just because you have one."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Quietly trying to manifest what you want doesn’t work, being a bitch does."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"Funny how a wink from a city guy can come across as cheesy or condescending, but a wink from a southern boy will send shivers up a girl’s spine."

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

"I didn’t make choices based on what I liked or didn’t like. I simply accepted what they chose for me. My role had always been to react and adapt to what was decided by other people, by outside circum…"

-Jonna Ivin, Will Love For Crumbs

10. Welcome to My Country

By: Lauren Slater

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and … read more

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11. Saltwater

By: Cathy McLennan

4.10

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

‘Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent … your dilemma is not whether the kids are inn… read more

Similar categories in Cathy McLennan's Saltwater book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

12. Karen

By: Marie Killilea

4.24

Format: None pages,

"A wonderful story of human courage, patience, and triumph. But you'll want to read it most for Kar… read more

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13. The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst

By: Marion Davies

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of Amer… read more

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14. A Backward Glance

By: Edith Wharton , Louis Auchincloss

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, vividly reflects on her public and privat… read more

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15. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Vargas's Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

16. Knee Deep in Paradise

By: None

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The star of the popular ABC-TV series Grace Under Fire recounts her childhood in the South as the d… read more

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Cover of Starving for Attention by Cherry Boone O'Neill

17. Starving for Attention

By: Cherry Boone O'Neill

3.89

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

In this dramatic book, Cherry reveals the horrifying cycle that became her own flirtation with deat… read more

Similar categories in Cherry Boone O'Neill's Starving for Attention book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

18. Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

By: Kerry Cohen

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

For everyone who was that girl. For everyone who knew that girl. For everyone who wondered who that… read more

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Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

19. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

20. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

21. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Cabo Nikolov's Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love book and Koren Zailckas's Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

13 best-selling nonfiction books like Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas

Transform Your Habits

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

C. Vann Woodward , Mary Boykin Chesnut

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming

Shreve Stockton

3.10

Transform Your Habits

My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City

Alexandra David-Néel

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Race Across Alaska: First Woman to Win the Iditarod Tells Her Story

Tim Jones , Libby Riddles

3.87

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12 Top nonfiction books like Starving for Attention by Cherry Boone O'Neill

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Keith, A: Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith

4.16

Transform Your Habits

My Life

Golda Meir

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Koren Zailckas

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today

Kate Bornstein

3.89

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