Books like A drinking life by Pete Hamill

Jack London reflects on his California election day experience, describing the warmth of the afternoon, the drinks he consumed, and the journey to the farm house for supper.

Posthumously published, Hemingway’s *A Moveable Feast* is a memoir of his Paris years in the 1920s, detailing his early career, intimate relationships, and encounters with other literary figures of the Lost Generation.

Gary Paulsen’s memoir traces his World War II childhood, portraying a young boy uprooted by the political, physical, and emotional turmoil of the era.

Caroline Knapp’s memoir chronicles her early encounter with alcohol as a coping tool, revealing the personal and broader struggles of alcoholism among Americans, especially women.

Pete Hamill’s memoir chronicles four decades of his life intertwined with New York drinking culture, revealing how alcohol shaped his personal and professional bonds before he finally left the habit behind.

Ben Logan’s memoir chronicles his childhood on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s, reflecting on family, neighbors, and the enduring bond with the land.

A candid, autobiographical look at the early life of Pulitzer‑winning New York Times columnist Russell Baker, offering insights into his upbringing and formative experiences.

"An astounding and brilliant memoir, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, journalist Adrian Gill writes about his near-fatal alcoholism in this extraordinary lucid memoir. By his early twenties, at London's prestigious Saint Martin's art school, Gill was entrenched in his addiction. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pockets that "were like tiny crime scenes," helping him puzzle his whereabouts back together. Throughout his recollections, Gill traces his childhood, his early diagnosis of dyslexia, the deep sense of isolation when he was sent to boarding school at age eleven, the disappearance of his only brother, whom he has not seen for decades. When Gill was confronted at age thirty by a doctor who questioned his drinking, he answered honestly for the first time, not because he was ready to stop, but because his body was too damaged to live much longer. Gill was admitted to a thirty-day rehab center--then a rare and revolutionary concept in England--and has lived three decades of his life sober. Written with clear-eyed honesty and empathy, Pour Me a Life is a haunting account of addiction, its exhilarating power and destructive force, and is destined to be a classic of its kind"--