13 must-read memoir books like Sea, Swallow Me by Suki Jones

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Sea, Swallow Me

By: Suki Jones

4.46

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In this dark, harrowing, and gripping memoir which details a drug addiction that almost killed her,…

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1. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

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"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

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2. The Drawing of the Three

By: Stephen King

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Stephen King introduced the world to the last gunslinger, Roland of Gilead. Nothing has be… read more

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3. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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  • memoir
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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4. We Are Okay

By: Nina LaCour

3.94

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, you… read more

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"I'm glad we didn't know better."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

"Things I need: The Californian sunshine. A more convincing smile."

-Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

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5. Seed

By: Ania Ahlborn

4.25

Format: 127 pages, ebook

Fans of Stephen King, Jack Kilborn, and Blake Crouch... prepare to meet the Devil. In the vine-twis… read more

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6. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.19

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more

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  • memoir
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

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7. Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.04

Format: 600 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds tha… read more

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"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."

-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

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8. Running With Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more

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  • memoir
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

9. Permanent Midnight

By: Jerry Stahl

4.00

Format: None pages, Trade Paperback

His byline appeared everywhere, from L.A. Styleto the Village Voice, from Esquireto Hustler. He pen… read more

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10. 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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  • memoir
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11. The Echo Wife

By: Sarah Gailey

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, r… read more

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"I became an alone-thing, more than I had ever been before."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

"No one would look at the seams that held me together and guess that they were scars."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

"He was relieved to have told me. He transmuted his guilt into my anger and now I was the one who had to carry it and he had the audacity to be relieved."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

"I'll be taking you out for coffee later this week, and you can give me all the details. In the meantime, I'll commence hating him just a little , in case I need material to seed hating him a lot."

-Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife

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12. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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13. 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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  • memoir
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14. The Exorcist's House

By: Nick Roberts

4.02

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hill… read more

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15. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

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"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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16. We Sold Our Souls

By: Grady Hendrix

3.73

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Te… read more

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"Fight," she finally said. Just fight. Never stop."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— "Do you see where I'm going?" [ROB] — "Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass." [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— Do you see where I'm going with this? [ROB] — Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass. [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"I can't believe that after a lifetime of playing metal, it turns out the world is a shitty country song."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

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17. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me by Erin Khar

18. 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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  • memoir
Cover of Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

19. Bring Me Back

By: B.A. Paris

3.51

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Finn and Layla: young and in love, their whole lives ahead of them. Driving back from a holiday in … read more

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20. Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a soc… read more

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  • memoir
"We die all the time to avoid being killed."

-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

"What is armor after all but a cage that moves with you?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

"Davis calls PTSD living at the whim of your worst memories."

-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

"When Giverny came out with a Gemina B. perfume advertised as with the slogan 'the fatal flower', I wondered if women should aspire to smell like a mutilated corpse."

-Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

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21. Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

By: Mary Laura Philpott

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful memoir that ta… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me? by Jen Mann

22. Midlife Bites: Anyone Else Falling Apart, Or Is It Just Me?

By: Jen Mann

3.95

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

A smart, personal, darkly funny examination of what it's like to be at the crossroads of a midlife … read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Strip: A Memoir by Hannah Sward

23. Strip: A Memoir

By: Hannah Sward

4.39

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Born in the bohemian seventies, Hannah Sward was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her poet f… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Sea, Swallow Me by Suki Jones

24. Sea, Swallow Me

By: Suki Jones

4.46

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In this dark, harrowing, and gripping memoir which details a drug addiction that almost killed her,… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of The Adventure Teen All-Stars by Alex Green

25. The Adventure Teen All-Stars

By: Alex Green

5.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Something's not right about the Adventure Teen All-Stars, the neon-suited band of anonymous teenage… read more

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