More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
7 best books like More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction (Elizabeth Wurtzel): Girl, Interrupted, Dry, Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, Drinking: A Love Story, In My Skin: A Memoir, Lust & Wonder
| Author | Susanna Kaysen |
| ISBN | 0679746048 |
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert...
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0312423799 |
You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when...
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in recent years and one of the strangest! Recalling the agony of growing up obsessive compulsive and a religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behavior like tirelessly scrubbing her...
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 | 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 | 0312342039 |
First came Running with Scissors. Then came Dry. Now, there's Lust & Wonder.
In chronicling the development and demise of the different relationships he's had while living in New York, Augusten Burroughs examines what it means to be in love, what it means to be in lust, and what it means...
