If you loved
Books like Tweak
A raw, unflinching descent into the chaos of addiction that grips you by the throat and refuses to let go until a final, fragile glimmer of hope. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Tweak.
- harrowing
- claustrophobic
- chaotic
- desperate
- 01
Beautiful Boy
David Sheff · 2008
An unflinching, heart-wrenching descent into the chaos of a loved one's addiction and the agonizing limits of parental rescue.
- 02
Crank
Ellen Hopkins
A visceral, free-falling descent into addiction told through sharp, breathless verse that refuses to look away.
- 04
A million little pieces
James Frey
A visceral, breathless descent into the hell of addiction and the agonizing, bloody crawl back to life.
- 05
Drinking
Caroline Knapp · 1996
An extraordinarily candid memoir that strips away the liquid armor of addiction to reveal the vulnerable realities of coping with life.
- 06
Junk
Melvin Burgess
A polyphonic, unflinching descent into the intoxicating highs and devastating lows of teenage rebellion and addiction.
- 07
A list of things that didn't kill me
Jason Schmidt
A darkly witty and brutally honest memoir about surviving a chaotic, secretive childhood and searching for a moral compass in the wreckage.
- 08
The heroin diaries
Nikki Sixx · 2007
A chaotic, visceral plunge into the darkest depths of rock-and-roll excess and the paranoid isolation of addiction.
- 09
The Burn Journals
Brent Runyon
An unflinching, intensely personal descent into adolescent despair and the agonizing, courageous climb back to normalcy.
- 10
That was then, this is now
S. E. Hinton · 1971
A raw, street-level elegy for a boyhood friendship fracturing under the weight of growing up.
- 11
Go Ask Alice
Anonymous · 1977
A breathless, terrifying free-fall into the darkest corners of teenage rebellion and addiction.
- 12
My Friend Leonard
James Frey
A raw, breathless exploration of life after rehab, anchored by a deeply unconventional and life-saving friendship.
