My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

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 fina…

If you like book My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir

Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in NYC when alcoholism and drug addiction took over her life. What was once a way she escaped her insecurity and negativity as a teenager…
Buy this book on Amazon
Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.”
— New York Times Book Review

“This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks ab…
Buy this book on Amazon
High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

A few years ago, Tiffany Jenkins was detoxing behind bars at a Florida prison, incarcerated on 20 felony charges. Now, she's clean and sober, a married mother of three. As she found her way in her new…
Buy this book on Amazon
How to Murder Your Life

At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotionally-starved childhood in Washington, she became hooked on ADHD medication provided by her psychiatr…
Buy this book on Amazon
American Drug Addict: a memoir

My name is Brett. I’m a college educated man who was once a husband of 26 years with two children, three businesses, and a large home with an actual white picket fence. I’m also a drug addict. And I h…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery

While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull t…
Buy this book on Amazon
Drunk Mom

Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. "It's a special occasion," she said to her boyfriend. And indeed it was. It…
Buy this book on Amazon
Glorious Rock Bottom

In Glorious Rock Bottom Bryony opens up about a toxic twenty-year relationship with alcohol and drugs and explains exactly why hitting rock bottom - for her, a traumatic event and the abrupt realisati…
Buy this book on Amazon
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

Alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure" for Sarah Hepola. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her …
Buy this book on Amazon
In My Skin: A Memoir

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 yo…
Buy this book on Amazon
Stash: My Life in Hiding

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about the journey to sobriety and self-love amidst addiction, privilege, racism, and self-sabotage from the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

Erica C. Barnett had her first sip of alcohol when she was thirteen, and she quickly developed a taste for drinking to oblivion with her friends. In her late twenties, her addiction became inescapable…
Buy this book on Amazon
Chasing A Flawed Sun

★"Riveting" ★ ★"I Couldn't put it down!"★ ★"Not just another addiction memoir" ★ ★"Must read!" ★

The phrase “Heroin saved my life” could be considered both controversial and ev…
Buy this book on Amazon
One Hit Away: A Memoir of Recovery

AWARD WINNER - 2020 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR, INDIES TODAY

At the age of 24, Jordan Barnes woke up next to a lifeless body, rifled through his dead friend's pockets for any remaining heroin and went right…
Buy this book on Amazon
Drinking: A Love Story

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…
Buy this book on Amazon
I Forgot to Die

Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie stars and legendary rock musicians, but it wasn't long before he found his way into the dark underbel…
Buy this book on Amazon
More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction

Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wa…
Buy this book on Amazon
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

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 …
Buy this book on Amazon
Overcome: A Memoir Of Abuse, Addiction, Sex Work, and Recovery

From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn’t like the other girls in town. From childhood struggles with depression and eating disorders, her years as a topless dancer in Florida, and an event…
Buy this book on Amazon
Push Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else)

From the bestselling author of We Are the Luckiest and founder of the international recovery community The Luckiest Club comes a modern exploration of addiction that offers nine foundational building …
Buy this book on Amazon