Top 10 Sickest (and most fun) Drug Books of All Time!

Submitted by Llorona on Sun, 03/20/2011 - 14:08
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  1. GO ASK ALICE by Anonymous
  2. Holy crap, who hasn't read this! This was my bible as a tween. Of course, it's not a real diary, just another literary hoax. (We should be getting used to those by now.) Still love it though. The book is like a bad movie of the week. Drugs bad. Especially if you're a teenager. Heroin? Don't even go there.
  3. A MILLION LITTLE PIECES by James Frey
  4. Oh-oh. Do I smell another hoax? It reads well though. And ... it could happen. It's a long book, but very easy to read. And I love it.
  5. PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Richard Perez
  6. With a subtitle like that how can you go wrong? Actually this is a hilariously funny book. With a little a death and kinkiness thrown in. Dominatrix does coke, has a little face-sitting accident. Oops.
  7. PARTY MONSTER: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland by James St. James
  8. Can you say dark? But why is it also funny? Well, it is! (also check out "Party Monster: the Shockumentary," which is equally dark.) I guess it's the cynicism of this book that appeals to me. You know the characters are all doomed, yet you can't stop reading! Easy to read also.
  9. REQUIEM FOR A DREAM: A Novel by Hubert Selby Jr.
  10. Wow, things just go from bad to worse. Then even worse! I love the writing style. It's really a gritty book about spiraling drug behavior and self-sabotage.
  11. THE BASKETBALL DIARIES by Jim Carroll
  12. The author passed away not too long ago. But this remains one of the most compulsively readable drug books ever. Also in the form of a diary, kinda. It's very streetwise and a little hard, but good. No rehab in the end, like in the corny Leonardo DeCrapio movie.
  13. SMACK by Melvin Burgess
  14. Romeo and Juliet meet smack, aka heroin. Cute. Book for teenagers written back in the days when teenagers were rebellious wouldn't touch corporate crap like TWILIGHT with a ten-foot pole. Those were the days.
  15. CANDY: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies
  16. I saw the Heath Ledger movie before I read the book. But the book is way better. Another bittersweet saga of love and drugs. Nicely written. Romantic. Hard not to get swept away.
  17. FEAR & LOATHING IN LAST VEGAS: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
  18. This might be the granddaddy of all crazy drug books. One part satire, one part road trip romp, one part journalist lampoon. Thompson wrote this as non-fiction, so it's not a novel. No wonder he has a cult following.
  19. TRAINSPOTTING by Irvine Welsh
  20. Now how could I mention a list of sickest all time drug novels and not include this one. It's hard to read though, and I struggled with it. The movie is a masterpiece, and if not for my knowledge of that I would've dropped the book. Oh, it's nasty good, don't get me wrong. Just requires a little patience.
Author Comments: 

I love these morbidly funny books! I don't know why, but I'm compelled to read them, over and over. But I hate drugs in real life. And I haven't smoked weed in years, hardly.