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Legalize This!: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs

By Douglas Husak

A Nice Girl Like Me: A Story of the Seventies

By Rosie Boycott

In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

By William Palmer

The Night of the Gun

By David Carr

Opium Eater: Life of Thomas De Quincey

By Grevel Lindop

Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

By Claire Dederer

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

By Lily Dunn

Pihkal

By Alexander T. Shulgin, Ann Shulgin

The End of My Addiction: How One Man Cured Himself of Alcoholism

By Olivier Ameisen

A Likely Lad

By Peter Doherty, Simon Spence

Glorious Rock Bottom: 'A shocking story told with heart and hope. You won't be able to put it down.' Dolly Alderton

By Bryony Gordon

Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocks

By Sam Delaney

The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

By Turney Duff

Can You Hear Me?: An NHS Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death

By Jake Jones

The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling's corruption

By Matt Rendell

Thicker than Water

By Kerry Washington

A Life in Parts

By Bryan Cranston

Will

By Will Self

Infiltration: The True Story Of The Man Who Cracked The Mafia

By Colin McLaren

A Street Cat Named Bob and How He Saved My Life

By James Bowen (Ecology Research Centre Australia)

Lectures on Macroeconomics

By Blanchard, Olivier, Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Stanley Fischer (Bank of Israel)

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

By Whitaker, Holly Glenn

Chinglish

By Cheung, Sue

Confessions of an English Opium Eater

By Thomas De Quincey, Barry Milligan

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Crystal Meth Addiction

By David Sheff

Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors

By Robby Krieger

The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

By Clare Pooley

Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery

By Merson, Paul

Drinking: A Love Story

By Caroline Knapp

Hope for Today

By Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.