We All Fall Down
by Nic Sheff | 
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
by Bill Clegg | 
Beautiful Boy
by David Sheff | 
The Basketball Diaries
by Jim Carroll | 
Permanent Midnight
by Jerry Stahl | 
High on Arrival
by Mackenzie Phillips |
Broken
by William Cope Moyers | 
More, Now, Again
by Elizabeth Wurtzel | 
A Piece of Cake
by Cupcake Brown |
My Booky Wook
by Russell Brand | 
My Friend Leonard
by James Frey | 
The Night of the Gun
by David Carr | 
A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey | 
With or Without You
by Domenica Ruta | 
The Heroin Diaries
by Nikki Sixx | 
Brain on Fire
by Susannah Cahalan | 
Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen | 
The Reason I Jump
by Naoki Higashida | 
Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet | 
Darkness Visible
by William Styron |
'It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.' Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to.It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.