24 Best nonfiction books like My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking by Lisa May Bennett

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking by Lisa May Bennett , here is a list of 24 books like this:

1. The Passenger

By: Lisa Lutz

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

In case you were wondering, I didn't do it. I didn't have anything to do with Frank's death. I don'… read more

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2. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

By: Cea Sunrise Person

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castleand Wild,Cea Sunrise Person's compel… read more

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3. 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

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. I'll Start Again Monday: Break the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating Habits with Lasting Spiritual Satisfaction

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.01

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

the missing companion for healthy eating plans that have left you feeling defeated So often we c… read more

Similar categories in Lysa TerKeurst's I'll Start Again Monday: Break the Cycle of Unhealthy Eating Habits with Lasting Spiritual Satisfaction book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
Cover of Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again by Lysa TerKeurst

5. Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again

By: Lysa TerKeurst

4.16

Format: 288 pages, ebook

*#1 New York Times Bestseller* You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have do… read more

Similar categories in Lysa TerKeurst's Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That's Beautiful Again book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
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6. 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

Similar categories in Aphrodite Jones's LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
Cover of Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison by Mike Sorrentino

7. Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison

By: Mike Sorrentino

4.32

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino gives fans the inside scoop they’ve been begging for with his explo… read more

Similar categories in Mike Sorrentino's Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Movie Star: They Always Say They're Single

By: Jessica Simpson

3.02

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An untold true short story about the mid-2000s, a world-famous actor, and a fantasy Hollywood roman… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Simpson's Movie Star: They Always Say They're Single book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • 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

Similar categories in David Poses's The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

Similar categories in Bryony Gordon's Glorious Rock Bottom book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. 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

Similar categories in Susan Burton's Empty book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

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12. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Levy's Drinking Games book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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13. 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

Similar categories in Laura McKowen's We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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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14. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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15. Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

By: Erica C. Barnett

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Erica C. Barnett had her first sip of alcohol when she was thirteen, and she quickly developed a ta… read more

Similar categories in Erica C. Barnett's Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

By: Catherine Gray

4.33

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? Think there's 'no point'… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Gray's The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I'm free from all of that "where's the next drink coming from?" stress. At one point I mislay my water. So what? If that had been wine, I would have been crushed, and annoyed for the next hour. I pro…"

-Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

"He gave me so many anti-anxiety techniques. Reciting the alphabet backwards if I'm walking to a boozy party and feel my heart start to jackhammer. Tapping along to a song, which does something fancy …"

-Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

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17. 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

Similar categories in Laura McKowen's Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Sunshine Warm Sober: Unexpected sober joy that lasts

By: Catherine Gray

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The new book from Catherine Gray - icon of the Quit Lit movement and author of The Unexpected Joy o… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Gray's Sunshine Warm Sober: Unexpected sober joy that lasts book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sober On A Drunk Planet: Giving Up Alcohol (Quit lit, #1) by Sean  Alexander

19. 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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  • nonfiction
Cover of Intoxicating Lies: One Woman’s Journey to Freedom from Gray Area Drinking by Meg Geisewite

20. 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

Similar categories in Meg Geisewite's Intoxicating Lies: One Woman’s Journey to Freedom from Gray Area Drinking book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • memoir
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21. Everywhere I Look: A Memoir

By: Ona Gritz

4.47

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

In 1982, twenty-five-year-old Angie Boggs, pregnant with her second child, was brutally murdered, a… read more

Similar categories in Ona Gritz's Everywhere I Look: A Memoir book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. Perfectly Thin

By: Margaret McHeyzer

3.96

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller author of Ugly and MistrustWhen I’m thinner, no one will make fun of meWh… read more

Similar categories in Margaret McHeyzer's Perfectly Thin book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

Cover of Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love by Amanda E. White

23. Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love

By: Amanda E. White

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this honest discussion of mental health, the founder of Therapy for Women explores our reasons f… read more

Similar categories in Amanda E. White's Not Drinking Tonight: A Guide to Creating a Sober Life You Love book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
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24. Rise: A Memoir

By: Rise Myers

4.22

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

An Ability to Rise Risé was named after the opera star Risë Stevens. It was as if her mother knew t… read more

Similar categories in Rise Myers's Rise: A Memoir book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • memoir
Cover of From the Brink of the Drink: A Personal Story of Tribulations and Triumphs of Alcoholism by Karla Juvonen

25. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Too Far Gone by A.T. Micalizzi

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

  • nonfiction
Cover of Alive AF : One Anxious Mom's Journey to Becoming Alcohol Free by Samantha Perkins

27. Alive AF : One Anxious Mom's Journey to Becoming Alcohol Free

By: Samantha Perkins

4.29

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

Married mother of two discovers the part alcohol has played in her lifelong struggle with anxiety. … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Perkins's Alive AF : One Anxious Mom's Journey to Becoming Alcohol Free book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

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28. 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

Similar categories in Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

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

29. 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

Similar categories in Nancy L. Carr's Last Call: A Memoir book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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30. The People In My House

By: Libby Henry

4.03

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Libby’s father is old school and didn't want another family. Libby’s mother lives vicariously throu… read more

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31. The Wrong Calamity: A Memoir

By: Marsha Jacobson

4.37

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Raised to believe she’s a no-account, Marsha Jacobson falls prey to an assistant dean at her colleg… read more

Similar categories in Marsha Jacobson's The Wrong Calamity: A Memoir book and Lisa May Bennett's My Unfurling: Emerging from the Grip of Anxiety, Self-Doubt, and Drinking

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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4.32

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