This memoir has it all, a family on the wrong side of history, a mother’s mental health issues, alcoholism, constant loss, death, relocating, and a vivid picture of the land.

I Forgot to Die is an incredible true story of pain, suffering, addiction and redemption and how one man ultimately conquered his demons and wrote himself a new life story.

This is not a story for the faint hearted. But one of the best you will ever read if you can handle the incest, abuse, mental illness and gun violence…

If there was ever a book that describes the shame connected to sexual abuse and how it can destroy a man, this is the one.

The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction.

By some is considered one of the greatest books of all time, it is also very controversial. It has been banned or challenged in many schools throughout the United States, for its profanity and alcohol abuse but is still taught at many others as a classic.

Was it a love story or was she being groomed? Adult Vanessa needs to believe that the love affair she had as a 13 year old student with her 45 year old professor was. If not her entire life story changes and she becomes a sexual abuse victim.

Read it for the first time when I was 12.Still think about it, still talk about it, still highly recommend it.

It is almost impossible to grasp that this horrific story is based on Dave’s own childhood.

An inspiring memoir detailing his struggle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.

Racism in the US through the lens of a black Nigerian woman who never experienced any troubles being black, until she as an adult moved to the US to study.

This is the story of the extremely rich Rausing family. Sigrid writes about her brother Hans and his wife Eva’s decline into severe drug abuse that caused the death of Eva. The tabloids went crazy over this story. Sigrid writes about the story from the inside, what it is like watching a loved one destroy everything.

Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family.

Willem, 16, is an outsider. Hoping he will become the man she wants him to be, his Ma and her boyfriend send Willem away to a Training Camp where they are proud to 'make men out of boys'. They promise Willem he will be safe there. What they do not tell thew is about the systematic abuse the boys in camp has to endure…

A universal story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked.

This story about growing up in the poorest neighbourhood in Glasgow with a severely alcoholic mother won the Booker prize in 2020.

The most important book you will ever read, no matter where you live. Racism, mental health, incarceration, abuse of all kinds, it is all connected. Connected to caste.

A slightly surrealist story that describes a woman’s decline due to mental illness in a very poetic and beautiful way.

It is not really substance abuse if it is prescribed to you by a licensed doctor, is it? At least the unnamed protagonist does not think so. All she wants to do is sleep for a year to wake up happier.

Claude is five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, he wants to be a girl.