Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption
10 best books like Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption (William Cope Moyers): Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Drinking: A Love Story, Permanent Midnight, Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir, My Friend Leonard, Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America, Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir, In My Skin: A Memoir
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
| Author | Nic Sheff |
| ISBN | 1416913629 |
The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.
Nic...
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
| Author | David Sheff |
| ISBN | 1328974715 |
With a new afterword
Now a Major Motion Picture
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before...
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
| Author | Koren Zailckas |
| ISBN | 0143036475 |
Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics yet...
| Author | Caroline Knapp |
| ISBN | 0385315546 |
The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist.
Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism....
| Author | Jerry Stahl |
| ISBN | 0976082209 |
His byline appeared everywhere, from L.A. Style to the Village Voice, from Esquire to Hustler. He penned scripts for twisted cult classics like Cafe Flesh and Dr. Caligari. He banged out shows for TV mega-hits like Moonlighting, Twin Peaks, and thirtysomething. But even when Jerry Stahl was making...
| Author | James Salant |
| ISBN | 1416936297 |
With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy. At the age of eighteen, after one too many run-ins with the cops for drug possession, he left his upper-middle-class home in Princeton, New Jersey, for a stint at a rehab...
| Author | James Frey |
| ISBN | 1594481954 |
The New York Times bestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller A Million Little Pieces-the heartrending story of a friendship between a newly-sober James and the charismatic, high-living mobster he met in rehab, Leonard.
A Million Little Pieces was the first Oprah Book Club...
| Author | Jennifer Storm |
| ISBN | 1592854680 |
A riveting memoir of what happens to a teenage girl whose life is awash in alcohol, drugs, and the trauma of rape.
Jennifer Storm's Blackout Girl is a can't-tear-yourself-away look at teenage addiction and redemption. At age six, Jennifer Storm was stealing sips of her mother's cocktails....
| Author | Bill Clegg |
| ISBN | 0316054674 |
Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his...
| Author | Kate Holden |
| ISBN | 1559708301 |
Called "Quite simply in a class of its own . . . the work of a stunningly talented writer who both graces and surpasses her material" (Guardian), this is the frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman's descent into heroin addiction and prostitution and the long, arduous struggle to redeem her...
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0312342020 |
“As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we’d ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I...
| Author | Patty Schemel |
| ISBN | 0306825074 |
A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel
Patty Schemel was a drummer at the epicenter of the Seattle grunge scene in the early '90s, best known for her work with the alternative rock band Hole.
Hit So Hard begins...
My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
| Author | Amy Dresner |
| ISBN | 0316430951 |
In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch...
I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
| Author | Janelle Hanchett |
| ISBN | 0316503770 |
"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood."
--POPSUGAR
"By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir."
--Kirkus
"Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery...
