Apology to the Young Addict
By: James Brown
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Husband, addict, father, skeptic. Now sixty—with years of sobriety under his belt—the celebrated au…
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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2. Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
By: Moshe Kasher
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
3. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
By: John Elder Robison
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he w… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. The Sound of Gravel
By: Ruth Wariner
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist cult. Ruth Wari… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
5. Wishful Drinking
By: Carrie Fisher
3.82
Format: 163 pages, Hardcover
In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
6. We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
By: Nic Sheff
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster r… read more
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7. How to Murder Your Life
By: Cat Marnell
3.87
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotio… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Ghost Boy
By: Megan Lloyd Davies , Martin Pistorius
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In Ja… read more
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9. Manhattan Beach
By: Jennifer Egan
3.50
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she glean… read more
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10. My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
By: Rachel DeLoache Williams
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sex and the City meets Bad Blood and Catch Me If You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delv… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
11. Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
By: Melissa Bond
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Brain on Fire meets High Achiever in this “page-turner memoir chronicling a woman’s accidental desc… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
12. 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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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Overcome: A Memoir Of Abuse, Addiction, Sex Work, and Recovery
By: Amber van de Bunt
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn’t like the other girls in town. From childhood s… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
By: Nora McInerny
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"He can say he forgives me, sure, but I know better. In therapy, I work on forgiving myself."-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
"How frightening to know that your brain can betray you this way, that the vessel for our sense of self is often faulty and prone to error. How awful to know that death may come for us over and over, …"-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
"To admit this—a hopelessly unfashionable addiction to the appearance of my body—is a crime in some circles. It's much more becoming to "embrace your flaws" or—even better—to not see your body's flaws…"-Nora McInerny, Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)
15. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
16. Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
3.68
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed s… read more
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"Some people write simply because they don’t know how to live in the moment and have to reconstruct it and live in it afterwards."-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Muutoksen ja toiston kaava on niin tiukasti yhteydessä tietynlaiseen harmoniaan elämässä, ja vapauden harjoittaminen on alisteista sille aivan kuin opinkappaleelle. Muutoksia täytyy annostella kohtuu…"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"Joskus minun vain täytyy saada puhua jotta tuntisin itseni todelliseksi, ja toivoisin että sinäkin puhuisit minulle." Hän makasi vaiti pimeässä ja tuijotti kattoon. Sitten hän sanoi: "Minusta tuntuu …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
"It struck me how the human capacity for receptivity is a kind of birthright, an asset given to us in the moment of our creation by which we are intended to regulate the currency of our souls. Unless …"-Rachel Cusk, Second Place
17. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
18. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
19. 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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- biography memoir
- 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
20. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
4.09
Format: 300 pages, ebook
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting med… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"To move foward, you have to leave the past behind"-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"there’s nothing worse than seeing pity radiating from the eyes of a former lover."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"Unutmanın varlığı asla kanıtlanmamıştır. Tek bildiğimiz, bazı şeylerin istediğimiz zaman aklımıza gelmemesidir."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
21. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
22. Little Weirds
By: Jenny Slate
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An alternate cover edition can be found here. Hello and welcome to my book. Inside you will find… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"If I deny that the root is in me, I will never change."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I love myself. I think that I am a very top-quality person."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"If I could remember anything, I would remember my belief that my extra love could just be used on myself."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
"I was born bucking the idea that I should have to be anywhere that I don’t like or talk to people who make me feel dead or trapped."-Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
23. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
24. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
By: Hadley Vlahos
4.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
25. The Beauty in Breaking
By: Michele Harper
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"...this is not a book about romance or a chronicle of loss. It is a story of love rebuilt better; the story of a butterfly birthed from goo; the story of newly grown wings that beat to a higher vibra…"-Michele Harper, The Beauty in Breaking
26. You'd Be Home Now
By: Kathleen Glasgow
4.15
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a tow… read more
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"The air was better then."-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now
"Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else."-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now
27. In the Shadow of the Mountain
By: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Endless ice. Thin air. The threat of dropping into nothingness thousands of feet below. This is the… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"We protect us."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"The host always said: 'Nothing you do is small. Everything begins from there."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"Even thought I rarely believed it myself, whenever I spoke it aloud, the dream grew. No matter how absurd it sounded, how impossible it seemed, dreaming got me closer to executing."-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
"Even while recuperating, we have to keep active. If you don't move at all, you're more likely to get sick. Continuous motion is the best way to manipulate our bodies into believing that we can fully …"-Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain
28. Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir
By: Daniel Barban Levin
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An “extraordinary” (Nylon) firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult and the costs paid by… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
29. If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
By: Kathleen Buhle
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Kathleen Buhle shares her story of resilience and self-discovery after her marriage to Hunter Biden… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
30. American Daughter
By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale
4.20
Format: 288 pages, ebook
For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Apology to the Young Addict
By: James Brown
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Husband, addict, father, skeptic. Now sixty—with years of sobriety under his belt—the celebrated au… read more
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