Blackout
by Sarah Hepola | 
lit
by Mary Karr | 
Smashed
by Koren Zailckas | 
Lies My Mother Never Told Me
by Kaylie Jones | 
With or Without You
by Domenica Ruta | 
A Drinking Life
by Pete Hamill | 
The Night of the Gun
by David Carr | 
Fiction Ruined My Family
by Jeanne Darst | 
Dead End Gene Pool
by Wendy Burden | 
Dry
by Augusten Burroughs | 
My Mother Was Nuts
by Penny Marshall | 
A Piece of Cake
by Cupcake Brown | 
The Only Girl in the Car
by Kathy Dobie | 
Fat Girl
by Judith Moore | 
Blackbird
by Jennifer Lauck | 
Appetites
by Caroline Knapp | 
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 |
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. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: she found inspiration in Pete Hamill's A Drinking Life and sobered up. Her tale is spiced up with the characters she has known along the way.