Books like Lord Fear by Lucas Mann

A father’s heartbreaking memoir of his son Nic’s crystal‑meth addiction and their fight for recovery, capturing the emotional toll and relentless search for treatment.

Sam Quinones traces a 15‑year chain of events in which sugar‑cane farmers in western Mexico develop a network that delivers cheap, highly potent black‑tar heroin to users across the United States.

A young boy is lured into a circus‑like theater run by an evil ringmaster modeled after singer Alice Cooper, exploring themes of temptation, fear, and demonic influence.

After a divorce, 27‑year‑old Marianna discovers she is pregnant, prompting her husband Sebastian to launch a seduction campaign to win her back.

Investigative travel memoir tracing the history and human cost of the U.S. war on drugs, from the Harrison Act to global repercussions, and exploring paths toward drug decriminalization and a more humane future.

A memoir of a physical therapist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who guides amputee and PTSD patients through Iraq and Afghanistan war injuries, blending humor with penetrating insight into veteran rehabilitation.

Roddy Doyle’s first nonfiction work, "Rory and Ita," is a memoir in the voices of his parents, tracing their Dublin upbringing, political roots, and marriage from 1923‑1951 to the present.

"With candor and humor, a manic-depressive Iranian-American Muslim woman chronicles her experiences with both clinical and cultural bipolarity. Melody Moezzi was born to Persian parents at the height of the Islamic Revolution and raised amid a vibrant, loving, and gossipy Iranian diaspora in the American heartland. When at eighteen, she began battling a severe physical illness, her community stepped up, filling her hospital rooms with roses, lilies, and hyacinths. But when she attempted suicide and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, there were no flowers. Despite several stays in psychiatric hospitals, bombarded with tranquilizers, mood-stabilizers, and antipsychotics, she was encouraged to keep her illness a secret-by both her family and an increasingly callous and indifferent medical establishment. Refusing to be ashamed, Moezzi became an outspoken advocate, determined to fight the stigma surrounding mental illness and reclaim her life along the way. Both an irreverent memoir and a rousing call to action, Haldol and Hyacinths is the moving story of a woman who refused to become torn across cultural and social lines. Moezzi reports from the front lines of the no-man's land between sickness and sanity, and the Midwest and the Middle East. A powerful, funny, and poignant narrative told through a unique and fascinating cultural lens, Haldol and Hyacinths is a tribute to the healing power of hope, humor, and acceptance"-- "Iranian-American activist Melody Moezzi speaks out on behalf of the mentally ill with a bracingly funny and poignant tale of her own suicide attempt, bipolar disorder diagnosis, and reclamation of her life"--

A collection of essays and memoirs tracing Sandra Cisneros’s life from Chicago to Mexico, revealing the homes that shaped her writing, her family, and her political passions.

Diane Cameron blends memoir, history and true crime to uncover the story of her stepfather, Donald Watkins, a Vietnam-era Marine who served in China during the 1937-39 Japanese invasion and later convicted of murder, exploring trauma, mental illness and family dynamics.