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…
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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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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
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4. The Bitter Taste of Dying: A Memoir
By: Jason Smith
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain a… read more
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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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"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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"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. 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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- new york
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8. 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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"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
9. A Happier Hour
By: None
4.43
Format: 63 pages,
When Rebecca Weller's pounding, dehydrated head woke her at 3am, yet again, she stared at the ceili… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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"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
12. 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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13. 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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"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
14. 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
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15. Glorious Rock Bottom
By: Bryony Gordon
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and dru… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life
By: Tiffany Jenkins
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
A few years ago, Tiffany Jenkins was detoxing behind bars at a Florida prison, incarcerated on 20 f… read more
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"A flicker of hope in one’s heart, is capable of lighting the path to a new destiny…"-Tiffany Jenkins, High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double 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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19. 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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20. Lush: A Memoir
By: Kerry Cohen
3.24
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"For those of us wrestling with demons—and who isn't?—Lush is a solace and as powerful as red wine.… read more
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21. Nothing Good Can Come from This
By: Kristi Coulter
3.95
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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"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
