Dry
By: Augusten Burroughs
4.03
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on …
Want to Read $ 12.99"I was drunk from the attention"-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"It's amazing how drunk you can be without alcohol."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
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1. Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety
By: Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The single glass of wine with dinner. . .the cold beer on a hot day. . .the champagne flute raised … read more
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- memoir
- humor
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
2. 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
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- biography
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- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames
By: David Sedaris
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them retur… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
4. 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
- psychology
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
5. Dry
By: Augusten Burroughs
4.03
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- humor
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I was drunk from the attention"-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"It's amazing how drunk you can be without alcohol."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
"When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all."-Augusten Burroughs, Dry
6. Drinking: A Love Story
By: Caroline Knapp
4.09
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored i… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"When you quit drinking you stop waiting."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
7. 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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8. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
By: David Sedaris
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a jo… read more
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9. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
By: David Sedaris
3.85
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more
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10. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
By: Sarah Hepola
4.03
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure" for Sarah Hepola. She spent her evenings at cocktail pa… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure."-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
"That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding."-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
"Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience."-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
"I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?"-Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
11. Lit
By: Mary Karr
3.44
Format: 216 pages,
Litfollows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness--and her astonishing resu… read more
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12. Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
By: Lisa F. Smith
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in NYC when alcoholism and drug addi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Drunk Mom
By: Jowita Bydlowska
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagn… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult."-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom
"It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being u…"-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom
14. Naked
By: David Sedaris
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris tu… 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
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Me Talk Pretty One Day
By: David Sedaris
4.33
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
David Sedaris' move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title ess… read more
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17. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
18. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. 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
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
20. 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
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- memoir
- psychology
- audiobook
21. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol
By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest… read more
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- memoir
- humor
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