Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir

10 best books like Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir (James Salant): Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction, Permanent Midnight, 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, Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption

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...

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

Author	Nikki Sixx
ISBN	1847371663

A dark year in the life of Nikki Sixx

Although a member of other bands Nikki Sixx is best known as co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter for the band Mötley Crüe.

A few years ago I was on a memoir kick and I ended up reading a few written by some current and former rock stars. I was...

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...

Permanent Midnight

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...

My Friend Leonard

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...

Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America

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....

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir

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...

In My Skin: A Memoir

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...

Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir

Author	Janice Erlbaum
ISBN	0812974565

At fifteen, sick of her unbearable and increasingly dangerous home life, Janice Erlbaum walked out of her family’s Brooklyn apartment and didn’t look back. From her first frightening night at a shelter, Janice knew she was in over her head. She was beaten up, shaken down, and nearly stabbed by a...

Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption

Author	William Cope Moyers
ISBN	0670037893

From rock bottom to recovery—the son of veteran broadcaster Bill Moyers chronicles his life- shattering battle with addiction and the hard-won fight for recovery

William Cope Moyers has come a long, long way. In 1994, he lay on the floor of an Atlanta crack house. His father had put together...

Good Grief

Author	Lolly Winston
ISBN	0446694843

Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to be a good widow-a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, she is more of the Jack Daniels kind. Self-medicating with ice cream for breakfast, breaking down at the supermarket, and showing up to work in her bathrobe and bunny...