15 must-read biography memoir books like How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell

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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…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel

1. More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

By: Elizabeth Wurtzel

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary accla… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Wurtzel's More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"When she walks in that first Monday, of course I am awake - I am always up these days - I decide to lay it down. “Look"

-Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

"I don't much like my life, but for some dumb reason, I want to be alive, because sooner or later, I figure it will work out."

-Elizabeth Wurtzel, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Cover of My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean by Amy Dresner

2. 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 Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup by Jean Godfrey-June

3. Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup

By: Jean Godfrey-June

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Everybody loves beauty products. Even if you think you know nothing about them, or even if you thin… read more

Similar categories in Jean Godfrey-June's Free Gift with Purchase: My Improbable Career in Magazines and Makeup book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
Cover of Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel

4. Prozac Nation

By: Elizabeth Wurtzel

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A harrowing story of breakdowns, suicide attempts, drug therapy, and an eventual journey back to li… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

5. Dear Diary

By: Lesley Arfin , Chloë Sevigny

4.00

Format: None pages,

A collection of a girl's funniest diary entries from 12 to 25 years old. She updates each entry by … read more

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6. 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

Similar categories in Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • fashion
  • audiobook
Cover of Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir by Lisa F. Smith

7. 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

Similar categories in Lisa F. Smith's Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Jowita Bydlowska's Drunk Mom book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • 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

Cover of Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

9. 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

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles by Kate  Flannery

10. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
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11. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

Cover of Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier by Marisa Meltzer

12. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

By: Marisa Meltzer

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The bombshell exposé that reveals—for the first time—exactly what happened at Glossier, one of Amer… read more

Similar categories in Marisa Meltzer's Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • audiobook
"Glossier is about much more than aesthetic appearance; it has become a way for people to feel connected to bigger beliefs, to feel like their daily choices are having an impact, and that they are put…"

-Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

Cover of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

13. My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.63

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts… read more

Similar categories in Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • contemporary
  • new york
  • audiobook
  • mental health
"What next? I couldn't imagine."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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14. My First Book

By: Honor Levy

3.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more

Similar categories in Honor Levy's My First Book book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • contemporary
"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."

-Honor Levy, My First Book

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15. Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox

4.40

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fox's Down the Drain book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

Cover of Unwifeable: A Memoir by Mandy Stadtmiller

16. Unwifeable: A Memoir

By: Mandy Stadtmiller

3.58

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Provocative, fearless, and dizzyingly uncensored, Mandy spills every secret she knows about dating,… read more

Similar categories in Mandy Stadtmiller's Unwifeable: A Memoir book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me by Erin Khar

17. 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 Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker

18. 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

Similar categories in Holly Whitaker's Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"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

Cover of Adult Drama: And Other Essays by Natalie Beach

19. Adult Drama: And Other Essays

By: Natalie Beach

3.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book in... Harper’s Bazaar Elle Bookpage Vulture’s “Into It” From the wri… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Beach's Adult Drama: And Other Essays book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Scammer by Caroline Calloway

20. Scammer

By: Caroline Calloway

3.56

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

The first memoir from noted scammer Caroline Calloway. read more

Similar categories in Caroline Calloway's Scammer book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019 by Natasha Stagg

21. Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019

By: Natasha Stagg

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Eve Babitz meets Roland Barthes in Sleeveless, Natasha Stagg's follow up to Surveys, her 2016 novel… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Stagg's Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019 book and Cat Marnell's How to Murder Your Life

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • fashion

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Cat Marnell

3.87

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The Guest

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3.29

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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3.63

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