12 Top biography books like Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

By: Nic Sheff

3.34

Format: 320 pages,

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl…

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1. Crank (Crank, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.16

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

In Crank, Ellen Hopkins chronicles the turbulent and often disturbing relationship between Kristina… read more

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  • mental health
"A vacation is a poor substitute for love."

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

"I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?"

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

"Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him."

-Ellen Hopkins, Crank (Crank, #1)

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2. A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

By: Marilee Strong

3.92

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

"I highly recommend [ A Bright Red Scream] , because it’s beautifully written and . . .  so  candid… read more

Similar categories in Marilee Strong's A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
"You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself."

-Marilee Strong, A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

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3. The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare

By: Kristina Wandzilak , Constance Curry

4.38

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A child caught in the horror of alcohol and drug addition. A mother helplessly standing by unable t… read more

Similar categories in Kristina Wandzilak's The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
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4. The Basketball Diaries

By: Jim Carroll

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball. Jim Carroll grew up to … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"they're fucking up minds they do not own."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat…"

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

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5. 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

Similar categories in Amy Dresner's My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. American Drug Addict: a memoir

By: Brett Douglas

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Lucy in the Sky

By: Anonymous

4.04

Format: 202 pages,

A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal.The a… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's Lucy in the Sky book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • mental health

8. Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

By: Nic Sheff

3.34

Format: 320 pages,

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularl… read more

Similar categories in Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction (The Memoir Series, #1)

By: Marni Mann

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I could feel my chin falling toward my chest, my back hunching forward. My body was acting on its … read more

Similar categories in Marni Mann's Memoirs Aren't Fairytales: A Story of Addiction (The Memoir Series, #1) book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Impulse (Impulse, #1) by Ellen Hopkins

10. Impulse (Impulse, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages,

Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Three li… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Impulse (Impulse, #1) book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • mental health
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11. Glass (Crank, #2)

By: Ellen Hopkins

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got h… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Glass (Crank, #2) book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • mental health
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12. Burned (Burned, #1)

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

I do know things really began to spin out of control after my first sex dream.It all started with a… read more

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13. A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1)

By: Dave Pelzer

3.59

Format: 370 pages,

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]  This book chronicles the unforgettable ac… read more

Similar categories in Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1) book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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14. Fallout (Crank, #3)

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.26

Format: 665 pages, Hardcover

Hunter. Autumn. Summer. Different homes. Different guardians. Different last names. Different liv… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Hopkins's Fallout (Crank, #3) book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • mental health
"Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted."

-Ellen Hopkins, Fallout (Crank, #3)

"Possibilities ...in the closet ...itching ...to break out ...but afraid of ...the fallout"

-Ellen Hopkins, Fallout (Crank, #3)

"Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do."

-Ellen Hopkins, Fallout (Crank, #3)

"Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you’re jungle fever. The next you’re Artic winter."

-Ellen Hopkins, Fallout (Crank, #3)

Cover of Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass by Niki Burnham, Ellen Hopkins, Cinda Williams Chima, Megan Kelley Hall, Gail Giles, Micol Ostow, Susan Hart Lindquist, Terri  Clark, Mary Bryan

15. Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

By: Niki Burnham , Ellen Hopkins , Cinda Williams Chima , Megan Kelley Hall , Gail Giles , Micol Ostow , Susan Hart Lindquist , Terri Clark , Mary Bryan

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Flirtin' with the Monster pulls back the curtain on Ellen Hopkins' smart and daring books Crank and… read more

Similar categories in Niki Burnham's Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • nonfiction
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16. Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy

By: David Sheff

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research Addict… read more

Similar categories in David Sheff's Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

17. A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

3.72

Format: 134 pages,

Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehab… read more

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18. 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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19. Cut

By: Patricia McCormick

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to fe… read more

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20. Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous , Beatrice Sparks

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th Af… read more

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21. I Forgot to Die

By: None

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie … read more

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22. A Piece of Cake

By: Cupcake Brown

4.24

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she… read more

Similar categories in Cupcake Brown's A Piece of Cake book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it."

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

"Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!"

-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

23. Suburban Junky: From Honor Roll to Heroin Addict

By: Jude Hassan

3.81

Format: None pages,

read more

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24. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

By: David Sheff

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more

Similar categories in David Sheff's Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You're as sick as your secrets."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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25. 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 Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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

26. 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

Similar categories in Erin Khar's Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tweakerworld by Jason Yamas

27. Tweakerworld

By: Jason Yamas

4.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francis… read more

Similar categories in Jason Yamas's Tweakerworld book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall by Vitale Buford

28. Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall

By: Vitale Buford

3.69

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Perfection is a mask we use to avoid pain. We think that if we can achieve perfection, we will achi… read more

Similar categories in Vitale Buford's Addicted to Perfect: A Journey Out of the Grips of Adderall book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos by Walt Gleeson

29. Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos

By: Walt Gleeson

3.83

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Lost in Yaba is a true story about an expat who becomes addicted to the infamous drug 'yaba' in Lao… read more

Similar categories in Walt Gleeson's Lost in Yaba: Down and Out in Laos book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery by Jordan P. Barnes

30. One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery

By: Jordan P. Barnes

4.46

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

AWARD WINNER - 2020 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, INDIES TODAY At the age of 24, Jordan Barnes woke up … read more

Similar categories in Jordan P. Barnes's One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction by David Sheff

31. High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction

By: David Sheff

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Just Say Know! With drug education for children more important than ever, this nonfiction book draw… read more

Similar categories in David Sheff's High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction book and Nic Sheff's Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

9 must-read psychology books like Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

Transform Your Habits

A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

Marilee Strong

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare

Kristina Wandzilak , Constance Curry

4.38

Transform Your Habits

My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

Amy Dresner

3.93

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

Nic Sheff

3.34

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9 Best fiction books like Impulse (Impulse, #1) by Ellen Hopkins

Transform Your Habits

Suicide Notes

Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Lucy in the Sky

Anonymous

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Impulse (Impulse, #1)

Ellen Hopkins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Sara Pascoe

4.30

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