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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBlessed: The Autobiography
George Best · 384 pages
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Koren Zailckas · 352 pages
From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at six
Doc: A Memoir
Dwight Gooden, Jeff Johnson · 285 pages
"A brutally honest memoir of talent, addiction, and recovery from one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time. As a shy nineteen-year-old, Dwight Gooden swept into New York, lifting a team of crazy characters to World Series greatness and giving a beleaguered city a reason to believe. Then he threw it all away. Now, with fresh and sober eyes, the Mets' beloved Dr. K shares the intimate detai
How Not to Be a Professional Footballer
Paul Merson
Hero of the Underground: A Memoir
Jason Peter, Tony O'Neill · 289 pages
Peter, a professional football player whose career was cut short by a neck injury, describes his life of heroin and crack addiction.
Basketball Junkie
Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds · 281 pages
Running: The Autobiography
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ben Cousins: My Life Story
Ben Cousins · 359 pages
A Piece of Cake
Cupcake Brown · 480 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake “[Cupcake] Brown’s confessional . . . memoir is one you can’t easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle.”—Chicago Sun-Times There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-dea
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King · 291 pages
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so reveal
My Booky Wook
Russell Brand · 352 pages
"From his troubled childhood in Essex and his addictions to drink, drugs and sex, to his giddy rise through the world of entertainment, this is not simply a story of fame but of redemption, achingly and hilariously honest throughout"--Cover.
Devil On My Shoulder
Alice Cooper with Daniel Richler
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee describes his struggles to overcome his demons.
Fall to Pieces
Mary Forsberg Weiland, Larkin Warren
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Rob Lowe · 344 pages
A teen idol at fifteen, an international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood.
Wrestling for My Life: The Legend, the Reality, and the Faith of a WWE Superstar
Shawn Michaels, David Thomas · 176 pages
Wonderland Avenue
Danny Sugerman · 434 pages
Hard Time: Banged Up Abroad Raving Arizona
Shaun Attwood · 345 pages
Forward: A Memoir
Abby Wambach, Karen Abbott · 230 pages
"Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. Named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of 2015, the iconic soccer player captured the nation's heart when she led her team to its recent World Cup Championship. Admired for her fearlessness and passion, Abby is a vocal advocate for women's rights and equal opportunity, pushing to translate the success of her team
Sinner's Creed
Scott Stapp · 387 pages
Sinner's Creed is the uncensored memoir of Scott Stapp, Grammy Award-winning leader of the multiplatinum rock band CREED. During CREED's decade of dominance and in the years following the band's breakup, Scott struggled with drugs and alcohol, which led not only to a divorce, but also to a much-publicized suicide attempt in 2006. Now clean, sober, and in the midst of a highly successful solo caree
Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen
Vince Neil, Mike Sager · 290 pages