17 Heart-Wrenching Memoirs About Addiction

One of several excellent memoirs on this list written by women, Drinking: A Love Story is a brutally honest account of a "sophisticated" high-functioning alcoholic and disordered eater who works as a journalist by day. Knapp unravels how the seemingly normal social activity that is drinking turned into something much darker and lonelier and how she finally said goodbye to a comfort that she loved (and loathed). — NE