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Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
Nina Renata Aron
★★★★★· Published 2020· 304 pages· read 2022
Aron's memoir of loving an addict and her own pull toward codependency. Fierce and clear-eyed.
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
Part memoir of her own drinking, part sweeping cultural history of addiction and the writers it claimed. Searching and ambitious.
Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults
Jessica Pan
Two friends' real letters to each other as they flail through their twenties abroad. Funny and very relatable.
A House in the Sky
Amanda Lindhout
Amanda Lindhout's memoir of being kidnapped and held for more than a year in Somalia. Harrowing, and the resilience stays with you.