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…
Want to Read $ 14.99"When you quit drinking you stop waiting."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
"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
"That was my favorite line: I'll drink less when things get better."-Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story
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1. This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
By: Annie Grace
4.25
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
Millions of people worry that drinking is affecting their health, yet are unwilling to seek change … read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- alcohol
- nonfiction
- self help
2. 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
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"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
3. 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
- alcohol
- womens
- self help
"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
4. 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
- alcohol
- self help
"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
5. 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
- alcohol
- self help
6. First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
By: None
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in lov… read more
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7. Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood - My Zany Years Spent Working in Tinsel Town
By: Lisa Jey Davis
3.46
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood by Lisa Jey Davis Enjoying Every Moment When Lisa Jey Davis (aka Ms. Che… read more
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8. 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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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- self help
9. Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
By: None
3.95
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Combining in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, an award-winning journalist de… read more
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10. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
4.29
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- self help
11. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
By: Anne Michaud
4.29
Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives
12. 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
- alcohol
- self help
"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
13. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
By: Holly Whitaker
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety. “You don… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- alcohol
- nonfiction
- self help
"OK,"-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
"Alcohol is the only drug in the world where, when you stop taking it, you are seen as having a disease."-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
"...we've reached a tipping point--more [women] are aware of the terms of our own oppression and of our complicity in the oppression of others."-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
"Americans aren't stupid. We are, however, preternaturally disposed to herd behavior (FOMO), with a strong desire to preserve a sense of individuality and maintain control over our decision making. We…"-Holly Whitaker, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
14. Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
By: Gail Caldwell
3.96
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
In Let’s Take the Long Walk Home, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gail Caldwell has written a powerfu… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
"The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it."-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
"What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part."-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
"It's and old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too."-Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
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
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
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
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- alcohol
- self help
"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
17. The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.
By: Clare Pooley
4.37
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
BY THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, THE BRAVE AND FUNNY MEMOIR THA… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- alcohol
- self help
18. 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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- nonfiction
- memoir
- psychology
- self help
19. Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir
By: Colin Dayan
4.00
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
In this haunting, lyrical, luminous book, Colin Dayan meditates on her family history, her relation… read more
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20. 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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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- alcohol
- nonfiction
- self help
21. Nothing Good Can Come from This
By: Kristi Coulter
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- self help
"Can you ask the bartender to make me something nonalcoholic that isn't sweet?'... What he got was a coupe glass filled with something that tasted a little like tea, a little like soda, and a lot like…"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
"Yes, he had a temper that left at least one hole in our walls before he went to therapy and got a handle on it. But he treated me like a superhero princess and was also warm, responsible, hilarious, …"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
"This is why I drank, you know. Because I wanted every day to be like that. I wanted every day to feel like a movie montage, or at least to end in an epiphany, or at least to have a clear narrative ar…"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
"Because I just don't really care about what the liquid in my glass says about me anymore. I'd like to tell you it's because sobriety cured my need for specialness. I'd like to tell you I invented the…"-Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This
