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The Best Books About Addiction

“What are the best books about Addiction?” We looked at 359 of the top books about or featuring addiction, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 16 titles, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Addiction” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 300+ titles, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.

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Top 16 Addiction Books



16 .) 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery by Allen Berger Ph.D

Lists It Appears On:

  • Clear Sky
  • Harbor Village Florida
  • Nerdy Creator

Concise advice on hunting down the personal culprits that sabotage sobriety and personal happiness. To grow in recovery, we must grow up emotionally. This means getting honest with ourselves and facing up to the self-defeating thoughts and actions that put our sobriety at risk. Although there are as many ways to mess up recovery as there are alcoholics and addicts, some general themes exist, which includeconfusing self-concern with selfishnessnot making amendsusing the program to try to become perfectnot getting help for relationship troublesbelieving that life should be easyIn simple, down-to-earth language, Allen Berger explores the twelve most commonly confronted beliefs and attitudes that can sabotage recovery. He then provides tools for working through these problems in daily life. This useful guide offers fresh perspectives on how the process of change begins with basic self-awareness and a commitment to working a daily program.

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15 .) Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change by Jeffrey Foote

Lists It Appears On:

  • Clear Sky
  • Goodreads
  • Recovery

The groundbreaking method that upends current treatment models and “offers collective hope to families of substance abusers” (Kirkus Reviews), helping loved ones conquer addiction and compulsion problems through positive reinforcement and kindness—from the leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US. Beyond Addiction goes beyond the theatrics of interventions and tough love to show family and friends how they can use kindness, positive reinforcement, and motivational and behavioral strategies to help someone change. Drawing on forty collective years of research and decades of clinical experience, the authors present the best practical advice science has to offer. Delivered with warmth, optimism, and humor, Beyond Addiction defines a new, empowered role for friends and family and a paradigm shift for the field. This new approach is not only less daunting for both the substance abuser and his family, but is more effective as well. Learn how to use the transformative power of relationships for positive change, guided by exercises and examples. Practice what really works in therapy and in everyday life, and discover many different treatment options along with tips for navigating the system. And have hope: this guide is a life raft for parents, family, and friends—offering “reminders that although no one can make another person change, there is much that can be done to make change seem appealing and possible” (Publishers Weekly).

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14 .) Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff

Lists It Appears On:

  • Book Riot
  • Nerdy Creator
  • Recovery

A myth-shattering look at drug abuse and addiction treatment, based on cutting-edge research Addiction is a preventable, treatable disease, not a moral failing. As with other illnesses, the approaches most likely to work are based on science — not on faith, tradition, contrition, or wishful thinking. These facts are the foundation of Clean. The existing addiction treatments, including Twelve Step programs and rehabs, have helped some, but they have failed to help many more. To discover why, David Sheff spent time with scores of scientists, doctors, counselors, and addicts and their families, and explored the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. In Clean, he reveals how addiction really works, and how we can combat it. “A guide for those affected by addiction, but also a manifesto . . . for America as it confronts its drug problem. [Sheff] has performed a vital service by compiling sensible advice on a subject for which sensible advice is in short supply.” — New York Times Book Review “As a journalist, father, and clear-eyed chronicler of addiction, David Sheff is without peer.” — Sanjay Gupta, M.D., chief medical correspondent, CNN

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13 .) Drinking: A Love Story

Lists It Appears On:

  • Book Riot
  • New Start Recovery
  • Ranker

The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist. Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism. Fittingly, it was literature that saved her: she found inspiration in Pete Hamill’s ‘A Drinking Life’ and sobered up. Her tale is spiced up with the characters she has known along the way. A journalist describes her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic, explaining how she used alcohol to escape personal relationships and the realities of life until a series of personal crises forced her to confront her problem.

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12 .) Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Lists It Appears On:

  • Above It All treatment
  • Book Riot
  • New Start Recovery

Revisit the second memoir in Augusten’s bestselling trilogy of Running with Scissors, Dry, and Lust & Wonder. You may not know it, but you’ve met Augusten Burroughs. You’ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in advertising. Regular. Ordinary. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve; when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls, and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. At the request (well, it wasn’t really a request) of his employers, Augusten landed in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey, Jr., are immediately dashed by the grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click, and that’s when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life and live it sober. What follows is a memoir that’s as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is real. Dry is the story of love, loss, and Starbucks as a higher power.

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11 .) In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction by Gabor Maté

Lists It Appears On:

  • Book Riot
  • Clear Sky
  • Work It Health

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treating the drug addicts of Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside with sympathy in his heart and legislative reform in mind can’t be easy. But Maté never judges. His book is a powerful call-to-arms, both for the decriminalization of drugs and for a more sympathetic and informed view of addiction. As Maté observes, “Those whom we dismiss as ‘junkies’ are not creatures from a different world, only men and women mired at the extreme end of a continuum on which, here or there, all of us might well locate ourselves.” In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts begins by introducing us to many of Dr. Maté’s most dire patients who steal, cheat, sell sex, and otherwise harm themselves for their next hit. Maté looks to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the physical manifestation and offering some enlightening answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves. Finally, he takes aim at the hugely ineffectual, largely U.S.-led War on Drugs (and its worldwide followers), challenging the wisdom of fighting drugs instead of aiding the addicts, and showing how controversial measures such as safe injection sites are measurably more successful at reducing drug-related crime and the spread of disease than anything most major governments have going. It’s not easy reading, but we ignore his arguments at our peril. When it comes to combating the drug trade and the ravages of addiction, society can use all the help it can get. –Kim Hughes

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10 .) Lit: A Memoir

Lists It Appears On:

  • Book Riot
  • New Start Recovery
  • Solutions Recovery

The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—Mary Karr’s sequel to the beloved and bestselling The Liars’ Club and Cherry “lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Mary Karr’s bestselling, unforgettable sequel to her beloved memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry—and one of the most critically acclaimed books of the year—Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. The Boston Globe calls Lit a book that “reminds us not only how compelling personal stories can be, but how, in the hands of a master, they can transmute into the highest art.” The New York Times Book Review calls it “a master class on the art of the memoir” in its Top 10 Books of 2009 Citation. Michiko Kakutani calls it “a book that lassos you, hogties your emotions and won’t let you go” in her New York Times review. And Susan Cheever states, simply, that Lit is “the best book about being a woman in America I have read in years.” In addition to the New York Times, Lit was named a Best Book of 2009 by the New Yorker (Reviewer Favorite), Entertainment Weekly (Top 10), Time (Top 10), the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the Seattle Times.

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9 .) More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Lists It Appears On:

  • Above It All treatment
  • Book Riot
  • Ranker

Elizabeth Wurtzel published her memoir of depression, Prozac Nation, to astonishing literary acclaim. A cultural phenomenon by age twenty-six, she had fame, money, respecteverything she had always wanted except that one, true thing: happiness. For all of her professional success, Wurtzel felt like a failure. She had lost friends and lovers, every magazine job she’d held, and way too much weight. She couldn’t write, and her second book was past due. But when her doctor prescribed Ritalin to help her focus-and boost the effects of her antidepressants — Wurtzel was spared. The Ritalin worked. And worked. The pills became her sugar…the sweetness in the days that have none. Soon she began grinding up the Ritalin and snorting it. Then came the cocaine, then more Ritalin, then more cocaine. Then I need more. I always need more. For all of my life I have needed more… More, Now, Again is the brutally honest, often painful account of Wurtzel’s descent into drug addiction. It is also a love story: How Wurtzel managed to break free of her relationship with Ritalin and learned to love life, and herself, is at the heart of this ultimately uplifting memoir that no reader will soon forget.

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8 .) The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

Lists It Appears On:

  • Above It All treatment
  • Goodreads
  • Sober Nation

The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball. Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960’s, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City–playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure. “I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty.” — Patti Smith

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7 .) Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola

Lists It Appears On:

  • Above It All treatment
  • Book Riot
  • Goodreads
  • New Start Recovery

Alcohol was “the gasoline of all adventure” for Sarah Hepola. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century woman. But there was a price. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should have been. Mornings became detective work on her own life. What did I say last night? How did I meet that guy? She apologized for things she couldn’t remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin. Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her career flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth. The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead. A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, Blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure–the sober life she never wanted. Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle. Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change. It’s about giving up the thing you cherish most–but getting yourself back in return.

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6 .) The Night of the Gun by David Carr

Lists It Appears On:

  • Above It All treatment
  • Book Riot
  • Ranker
  • Signature Reads

Do we remember only the stories we can live with?The ones that make us look good in the rearview mirror? In “The Night of the Gun,” David Carr redefines memoir with the revelatory story of his years as an addict and chronicles his journey from crack-house regular to regular columnist for “The New York Times.” Built on sixty videotaped interviews, legal and medical records, and three years of reporting, “The Night of the Gun” is a ferocious tale that uses the tools of journalism to fact-check the past. Carr’s investigation of his own history reveals that his odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent was far more harrowing — and, in the end, more miraculous — than he allowed himself to remember. Over the course of the book, he digs his way through a past that continues to evolve as he reports it. That long-ago night he was so out of his mind that his best friend had to pull a gun on him to make him go away? A visit to the friend twenty years later reveals that Carr was pointing the gun. His lucrative side business as a cocaine dealer? Not all that lucrative, as it turned out, and filled with peril. His belief that after his twins were born, he quickly sobered up to become a parent? Nice story, if he could prove it. The notion that he was an easy choice as a custodial parent once he finally was sober? His lawyer pulls out the old file and gently explains it was a little more complicated than that. In one sense, the story of “The Night of the Gun” is a common one — a white-boy misdemeanant lands in a ditch and is restored to sanity through the love of his family, a God of his understanding, and a support group that will go unnamed. But when the whole truth is told, it does not end there. After fourteen years — or was it thirteen? — Carr tried an experiment in social drinking. Double jeopardy turned out to be a game he did not play well. As a reporter and columnist at the nation’s best newspaper, he prospered, but gained no more adeptness at mood-altering substances. He set out to become a nice suburban alcoholic and succeeded all too well, including two more arrests, one that included a night in jail wearing a tuxedo. Ferocious and eloquent, courageous and bitingly funny, “The Night of the Gun” unravels the ways memory helps us not only create our lives, but survive them.

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5 .) Why Don’t They Just Quit? What families and friends need to know about addiction and recovery. by Joe Herzanek

Lists It Appears On:

  • Clear Sky
  • Goodreads
  • Goodreads
  • Moyer Foundation

Real-life solutions to help you now! Watching a loved one immersed in an intense battle with alcohol and drug abuse may be the most difficult, complex and harrowing experience you ll ever have. This book offers a message of hope to families and friends, giving practical solutions so they can help anyone struggling with addiction to begin the road to recovery. You will learn: Why a person doesn t have to hit rock-bottom before getting help. When helping is actually hurting. Why quitting is not the same as recovering. How to deal with a relapse. How to receive 50 percent or more off the cost of treatment. Why a parent would leave their child due to their addiction. Why effective intervention doesn t have to be a surprise attack. Answers to over 30 common, and not so common questions. Inspiring first-hand recovery stories from real people!

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4 .) Alcoholics Anonymous: The Big Book

Lists It Appears On:

  • Clear Sky
  • Luxury Rehab Center
  • New Start Recovery
  • Solutions Recovery
  • Test Country

It’s more than a book. It’s a way of life. Alcoholics Anonymous-The Big Book-has served as a lifeline to millions worldwide. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous sets forth cornerstone concepts of recovery from alcoholism and tells the stories of men and women who have overcome the disease. With publication of the second edition in 1955, the third edition in 1976, and now the fourth edition in 2001, the essential recovery text has remained unchanged while personal stories have been added to reflect the growing and diverse fellowship. The long-awaited fourth edition features 24 new personal stories of recovery. Key features and benefits ·the most widely used resource for millions of individuals in recovery ·contains full, original text describing A.A. the program ·updated with 24 new personal stories

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3 .) We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction by Nic Sheff

Lists It Appears On:

  • Above It All treatment
  • Book Riot
  • Goodreads
  • Luxury Rehab Center
  • Solutions Recovery

In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. Now in this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction. Tweak and Beautiful Boy, his father’s memoir about him, are the basis of the upcoming film Beautiful Boy, starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

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2 .) Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

Lists It Appears On:

  • Drug Rehab
  • Goodreads
  • Ranker
  • Sober Nation
  • Solutions Recovery
  • Test Country

The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet. This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery. Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It’s a harrowing portrait—but not one without hope.

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1 .) Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff

Lists It Appears On:

  • Book Riot
  • Goodreads
  • Luxury Rehab Center
  • Ranker
  • Recovery
  • Solutions Recovery
  • Test Country
  • Work It Health

What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? The police? The hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll, but as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on him. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help.

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The 300+ Additional Best Books About Addiction



 

# Books Author Lists
(Titles Appear On 2 Lists Each)
17 A Piece of Cake Cupcake Brown
Above It All treatment
Book Riot
18 Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery Beverly Conyers :
Moyer Foundation
Recovery
19
America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life
Inspire Malibu
Book Riot
20
Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Book Riot
Drug Rehab
21 Crank Book Riot
Test Country
22 Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones Work It Health
Book Riot
23 Drop the Rock
Luxury Rehab Center
Solutions Recovery
24 For Teenagers Living With a Parent Who Abuses Alcohol/Drugs Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer Jody Lamb
Moyer Foundation
25 Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster Kristen Johnston
Above It All treatment
Book Riot
26 Healing the Addicted Brain Harold Urschel Nerdy Creator
Harbor Village Florida
27 High Price: Drugs, Neuroscience, and Discovering Myself Carl Hart Work It Health
Book Riot
28 How to Grow Up Book Riot
Electric Literature
29 Infinite Jest Book Riot
Ranker
30 Junky William S. Burroughs Book Riot
Signature Reads
31 Living Sober Clear Sky
Sober Nation
32 My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease – A Child’s View: Living with Addiction Claudia Black Jody Lamb
Moyer Foundation
33 Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery Bill Clegg Goodreads
Sober Nation
34 Opiate Addiction – The Painkiller Addiction Epidemic, Heroin Addiction and the Way Out Taite Adams Goodreads
Luxury Rehab Center
35 Permanent Midnight Jerry Stahl Electric Literature
Signature Reads
36
Recover to Live: Kick Any Habit, Manage Any Addiction
Solutions Recovery
Drug Rehab
37 Requiem For a Dream Hubert Selby, Jr. Book Riot
Signature Reads
38
Sober for Good; New Solutions for Drinking Problems
Inspire Malibu
Drug Rehab
39 Sober Stick Figure Amber Tozer
Above It All treatment
Book Riot
40 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Ranker
Test Country
41 The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star Nikki Sixx
Above It All treatment
Drug Rehab
42 The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction Rebecca Williams and Julie Kraft Nerdy Creator
Goodreads
43 The Recovery Formula: An Addict’s Guide to getting Clean & Sober Forever Beth Burgess
Luxury Rehab Center
Goodreads
44 Trainspotting Irvine Welsh Book Riot
Five Books
45 Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction Maia Szalavitz Nerdy Creator
Work It Health
(Titles Appear On 1 Lists Each)
46
A Young Vice Cop Investigates Her Darkest Case of Meth Addiction
Book Riot
47 32 Candles Book Riot
48 365 Tao: Daily Meditations Fit Recovery
49 7 Weeks To Sobriety Fit Recovery
50 A Dog’s Tail: Alice’s hindsight of alcohol abuse in her family Jamie A Landsman Goodreads
51 A Drinking Life: A Memoir Ranker
52 A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps Sex Addict Help
53 A Girl Walks Out of a Bar Book Riot
54 A New Pair of Glasses
Solutions Recovery
55 A Plague Year Book Riot
56 A Scanner Darkly Book Riot
57 A Terrible Thing Happened Margaret M. Holmes Jody Lamb
58
Addicted to Adultery: How We Saved Our Marriage and How You Can Save Yours
Sex Addict Help
59 ADDICTION & Grace Inspire Malibu
60 Addiction to Perfection: Inspire Malibu
61 Addiction: The Master Keys to Recovery Dr. Michael J. De Vito D.C. DACACD Goodreads
62 Addiction: What’s Really Going On? Inside a Heroin Treatment Program Deborah McCloskey Goodreads
63
Addiction: Why Can’t They Just Stop? – John Hoffman, Susan Froemke :
Moyer Foundation
64 Addictions and Trauma Recovery: Inspire Malibu
65 Addicts in the Family: Stories of Loss, Hope and Recovery Beverly Conyers Sober Nation
66 Agency of fear Ranker
67 Alateen: Hope for Children of Alcoholics Al-Anon Family Groups Headquarters, Inc. Jody Lamb
68 Alcohol And The Addictive Brain Fit Recovery
69
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Book Riot
70 An Anatomy of Addiction: Inspire Malibu
71 An Elephant in the Living Room Jill M. Hastings :
Moyer Foundation
72 Antifragile Fit Recovery
73 Astronomicon minorem – DMT, Cthulhu and You Khurt Khave Goodreads
74
Back From Betrayal: Recovering From his Affairs
Sex Addict Help
75 Back To Basics
Solutions Recovery
76 Basketball Diaries Book Riot
77 Basketball Junkie Chris Herren Goodreads
78 Before it’s Too Late: Inspire Malibu
79 Before You Break Kyla Stone Goodreads
80
Believable Hope: 5 Essential Elements to Beat Any Addiction
Drug Rehab
81 Below Sea Level Jane Foster Goodreads
82 Beneath a Meth Moon Book Riot
83
Beyond Gay or Straight: Understanding Sexual Orientation
Sex Addict Help
84 Bigger, Leaner, Stronger Fit Recovery
85 Black Out Electric Literature
86 Black Tar: For the Love of Heroin Stephen E. Crockett Goodreads
87
Blackout Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America
Book Riot
88 Blue Days, Black Nights: A Memoir Ranker
89 Breaking Free: How to be Completely Free from any Addiction Kevin W. Shorter Goodreads
90 Bright Lights Big City Book Riot
91 Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption Drug Rehab
92 Can Genetics Increase Risk of Alcoholism?
Futures Of Palm Beach
93 Candy Luke Davies Goodreads
94 Changing for Good: Inspire Malibu
95 Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs Johann Hari Work It Health
96 Chasing the Star Garden (The Airship Racing Chronicles, #1) Melanie Karsak Goodreads
97 Chiva Ranker
98
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Recovery
99
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction:
Inspire Malibu
100 Commonly Abused Drugs
Futures Of Palm Beach
101 Confessions of an English Opium Eater Book Riot
102 Connaissance par les gouffres Ranker
103 Contrary to Love: Helping the Sexual Addict Sex Addict Help
104 Contributing Factors of Drug Abuse
Futures Of Palm Beach
105 Control Alcohol Fit Recovery
106
Craving for Ecstasy : How Our Passions Become Addictions and What We Can Do About Them
Sex Addict Help
107 Crazy Town: Money. Marriage. Meth. Sterling R. Braswell Goodreads
108 Critters Cry Too Anthony Curcio :
Moyer Foundation
109 Crooked Little Heart Book Riot
110 Cruddy Book Riot
111
Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men
Sex Addict Help
112 Cursed is the Road to the American Dream Jack Deadmen Goodreads
113
Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy or Obsession?
Sex Addict Help
114 Delicious Foods Electric Literature
115 Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction Book Riot
116 Diary of an Exercise Addict Book Riot
117
Disclosing Secrets: When, to Whom, and How Much to Reveal
Sex Addict Help
118 Divine Innocence Hammed Al-Tamimi Goodreads
119 DJ Rising Book Riot
120 Doctor Dealer Ranker
121 Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children Charles Rubin :
Moyer Foundation
122
Don’t Call It Love: Recovery from Sexual Addiction
Sex Addict Help
123 Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down: 50 Things Every Alcoholic and Addict in Early Recovery Should Know Georgia W.
Harbor Village Florida
124 Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life
Solutions Recovery
125
Don’t Let Your Kids Kill You: A Guide for Parents of Drug and Alcohol Addicted Children
Recovery
126 Dope Girls Ranker
127 Dope Sick Book Riot
128 Dopefiend Ranker
129 Double Duty Inspire Malibu
130 Dream Brother: A Novel Brian Marggraf Goodreads
131 Drinking Caroline Knapp
Above It All treatment
132 Drug Abuse & Memory Loss
Futures Of Palm Beach
133 Drugs And The Mind Ranker
134 Drugs and the Party Line Ranker
135 Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society Ranker
136 Drugs, society and human behavior: Test Country
137 Drunk Mom Book Riot
138 Easter Ann Peters’ Operation Cool Jody Lamb (yours truly!) Jody Lamb
139 Easy Way To Control Alcohol Fit Recovery
140 Eating Smoke: One Man’s Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong’s Triad Heartland Chris Thrall Goodreads
141
Effects of Alcoholism on the Central Nervous System
Futures Of Palm Beach
142
Empowering Your Sober Self; The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery
Inspire Malibu
143 Essential Papers on Addiction Inspire Malibu
144 Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus Book Riot
145
Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts
Clear Sky
146 Evolution Fit Recovery
147 Facing the Dragon: How a Desperate Act Pulled One Addict Out of Methamphetamine Hell David Parnell Goodreads
148
False Intimacy: Understanding the Struggle of Sexual Addiction
Sex Addict Help
149 Far From You Book Riot
150 Ferocity Summer Book Riot
151 Gabi, A Girl in Pieces Book Riot
152 Genius and Heroin: Inspire Malibu
153 Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir Book Riot
154 Go Ask Alice Book Riot
155 Graceland Electric Literature
156 Gun, Needle, Spoon Electric Literature
157 Happy Ending David Rat Goodreads
158 Hazeldon Meditation Series
Luxury Rehab Center
159 Health Concerns of Long-term Drug Abuse
Futures Of Palm Beach
160 Hero of the Underground: A Memoir Jason Peter Goodreads
161 Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within Eliza Player
Above It All treatment
162 Hole in my Life Book Riot
163
Hope and Recovery: A Twelve-Step Guide for Healing From Compulsive Sexual Behavior
Sex Addict Help
164 How I Made it to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story Book Riot
165 How Our Help Line Works Recovery
166 How to Break Your Addiction to a Person Howard Halpern Nerdy Creator
167 How To Live Longer And Feel Better Fit Recovery
168 How to Murder Your Life Book Riot
169 How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z Ranker
170 How To Stop Worrying And Start Living Fit Recovery
171 I Swear I’ll Make It Up to You Mishka Shubaly
Above It All treatment
172 I Want to Change My Life Steven Melemis Nerdy Creator
173 I Wish Daddy Didn’t Drink So Much Judith Vigna Jody Lamb
174
Ibogaine Explained: Everything You Need to Know About the World’s Most Powerful Psychedelic
Clear Sky
175 Identical: Test Country
176 In Hanuman’s Hands Ranker
177 In My Skin: A Memoir Drug Rehab
178 Indian Horse Book Riot
179 Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison Book Riot
180 Intoxication Fit Recovery
181 ion Book Riot
182 Is It Love or is it Addiction? Sex Addict Help
183
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions and Healing
Book Riot
184 Jesus’ Son Book Riot
185 John Barleycorn Book Riot
186
Just for Today: Daily Meditations for Recovering Addicts
Solutions Recovery
187 Last Night I Sang to the Monster Book Riot
188 Learning Not to Drown Book Riot
189 Legal Problems & Alcoholism
Futures Of Palm Beach
190 Less Than Zero Ranker
191 Like a Diamond in the Sky Shazia Omar Five Books
192
Lonely All the Time: Recognizing, Understanding and Overcoming Sex Addiction, for Addicts and Codependents
Sex Addict Help
193 Love and addiction Ranker
194 Love First: A New Approach to Intervention for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction (A Hazelden Guidebook) Jeff Jay Goodreads
195
Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction (W. W. Norton)
Sex Addict Help
196
Love, Infidelity and Sexual Addiction: A Codependent’s Perspective
Sex Addict Help
197
Many Roads, One Journey : Moving Beyond the Twelve Steps
Sex Addict Help
198 Mastery Fit Recovery
199 Maya’s Notebook Book Riot
200
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Book Riot
201 Ministry: The Lost Gospels Al Jourgensen Signature Reads
202 Moth Smoke Mohsin Hamid Five Books
203 My Book of Life by Angel Book Riot
204 My Rehab Diary James Weston Goodreads
205 Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois’s Most Infamous Crimes Susan Elmore Goodreads
206 NLP: The Essential Guide Fit Recovery
207 No More Letting Go: The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Debra Jay Goodreads
208 No Room To Live A Journey From Addiction To Recovery Wynford Ellis Owen Goodreads
209 Not This Time Ranker
210 NW Book Riot
211 On the Road Jack Kerouac Five Books
212 Only the Devil Tells the Truth Jake Parent Goodreads
213 Opiate Addiction – Reclaim Your Real Life: (Accelerate Opiate Withdrawal – Don’t Give Up, Your Life Is Worth It and There is Hope) Clark Meyer Goodreads
214
Opiate Addiction: The Painkiller Epidemic, Heroin Addiction, and the Way Out
Clear Sky
215 Orange Is the New Black Piper Kerman Goodreads
216 Oulanem Paul Majkut Goodreads
217 Out of Reach Book Riot
218 Parched
Luxury Rehab Center
219
PATHWAYS from the Culture of Addiction to the Culture of Recovery
Inspire Malibu
220 Pill Head Joshua Lyon
Above It All treatment
221 Pillbillies (Pillbillies, #1) K.L. Randis Goodreads
222
Pornified: How Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Sex Addict Help
223 Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir Bill Clegg Goodreads
224 Postcards from the Edge Book Riot
225 Prozac Nation Elizabeth Wurtzel Sober Nation
226 Rabbit Ears Book Riot
227 Raiders Night Book Riot
228
Reclaiming Goddess Sexuality, The Power of the Feminine Way
Sex Addict Help
229 Reclaiming VIRTUE: Inspire Malibu
230
Recovery Renewal: Your Essential Guide to Overcoming Dependency and Withdrawal from Sleeping Pills, Other ‘Benzo’ Tranquillisers and Antidepressants
Drug Rehab
231 Recovery Road Book Riot
232 Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions Drug Rehab
233 Reefer Madness Ranker
234
Relapse Prevention: Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors
Sex Addict Help
235 Rethinking Substance Abuse: Inspire Malibu
236
Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior
Drug Rehab
237 Rewired Erica Spiegelman Nerdy Creator
238 Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts Liliane Desjardins Goodreads
239 Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs Sober Nation
240 Saint Iggy Book Riot
241 Saying Yes Ranker
242 Scar Tissue Drug Rehab
243
Services Research in the Era of Managed Care
Ranker
244 Sex Addiction: Case Studies and Management Sex Addict Help
245 Shards Book Riot
246 Sirens Book Riot
247 Smack Book Riot
248 Smashed Koren Zailckas
Above It All treatment
249 Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood Koren Zailckas Sober Nation
250 Sober Identity by Lisa Neumann
Luxury Rehab Center
251
Social Work With Drug And Substance Misusers
Ranker
252 Something in the Way Preston Peet Goodreads
253 Son of a Trickster Book Riot
254 Songs Only You Know Sean Madigan Hoen Signature Reads
255 Soul Recovery: 12 Keys to Healing Addiction. A Journey from Dependence and Despair to Awakening, Wholeness, Sobriety, and Success Ester Nicholson Goodreads
256 State of emergency Ranker
257
Step Up: Unpacking Steps 1-3 with Someone Who’s Been There
Drug Rehab
258 Stoney the Pony Linda Myers :
Moyer Foundation
259 Stop the Chaos Workbook Inspire Malibu
260 Storming Heaven Ranker
261 Symptoms of Withdrawal
Solutions Recovery
262 Tales of Addiction and Inspiration for Recovery: Twenty True Stories from the Soul Barbara Sinor Goodreads
263 Tall Tales Karen Day Jody Lamb
264 Teen drug abuse Ranker
265 Teenage Degenerate S.C. Sterling Goodreads
266
Terry: My Daughter’s Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
Book Riot
267 The 6 Pillars Of Self-Esteem Fit Recovery
268 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Book Riot
269 The Acid Diary Daniel S. Fletcher Goodreads
270
The Addiction Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Quitting Alcohol and Drugs:
Test Country
271 The Addictive Organization: Inspire Malibu
272 The Addictive Personality Craig Nakken Nerdy Creator
273 The Alchemist Paul Coelho Five Books
274 The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: Test Country
275 The Bitter Taste of Dying Book Riot
276 The Brown Bottle Penny Jones :
Moyer Foundation
277
The Craving Brain: Science, Spirituality, and the Road to Recovery
Clear Sky
278 The Curse of Lono Book Riot
279 The Dance of Anger
Solutions Recovery
280 The Emperor Wears No Clothes Ranker
281
The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
Solutions Recovery
282
The Fix: Under the Nixon Administration, America Had an Effective Drug Policy. We Should Restore It. (Nixon Was Right)
Ranker
283 The Forever Fight: On Drugs, Alcohol and the Cycle of Addiction K.J. Gordon Goodreads
284
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Solutions Recovery
285 The Fuck-Up Arthur Nersesian Goodreads
286 The Girl Behind the Painted Smile: My battle with the bottle Catherine Lockwood Goodreads
287 The Girl on the Train Book Riot
288 The Glass Castle Book Riot
289 The Globalization of Addiction Inspire Malibu
290 The Good House Book Riot
291 The Happy Addict: How to be Happy in Recovery from Alcoholism or Drug Addiction Beth Burgess Goodreads
292
The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real-Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery
Book Riot
293 The Hate U Give Book Riot
294 The Hidden Keys Book Riot
295 The Impossible Knife of Memory Book Riot
296 The Joey Song: A Mother’s Story of Her Son’s Addiction Sandra Swenson Goodreads
297 The Lesser Spotted Addict Daniel Groenewald Goodreads
298 The Light Robert Hammond Goodreads
299 The Los Angeles Diaries James Brown
Above It All treatment
300 The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson Algren Signature Reads
301 The Medical Librarian’s Guide to Natural Mental Health William Jiang Goodreads
302 The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery: A Practical Guide to Regaining Control Over Your Life Lawrence Peltz
Harbor Village Florida
303 The Misfortunates Book Riot
304 The Mood Cure Fit Recovery
305 The natural mind Ranker
306
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Book Riot
307 The Orange Eats Creeps Book Riot
308 The phoenix solution Ranker
309
The Pleasure Addicts: The Addictive Process–Food, Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, Work, and More
Sex Addict Help
310 The politics of heroin Ranker
311
The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women
Ranker
312
The Secret Sin: Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction
Sex Addict Help
313
The Sex Addiction Workbook: Proven Strategies to Help You Regain Control of Your Life
Sex Addict Help
314 The Shining Book Riot
315 The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference Irene Watson Goodreads
316 The Spectacular Now Book Riot
317 The Spirituality of Imperfection: Inspire Malibu
318 The Splendid Things We Planned Book Riot
319 The Taste Of Metal Joe Hnida Goodreads
320 The Tender Bar Book Riot
321 The Tennis Partner Book Riot
322 The Trip to Echo Spring Olivia Laing Signature Reads
323
The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions by Alcoholics Anonymous
Luxury Rehab Center
324
The Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Book Riot
325 The Undiscovered Self Fit Recovery
326 The Vitamin Cure For Alcoholism Fit Recovery
327 The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance Book Riot
328 Think And Grow Rich Fit Recovery
329 This Naked Mind: Alcohol Exposed Drink Less, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness And Change Your Life. Annie Grace Goodreads
330 Time Salvager Book Riot
331 Toward a Psychology of Being Abraham H. Maslow
Harbor Village Florida
332
Trauma and Recovery; The aftermath of violence
Inspire Malibu
333 Treating Addicted Survivors of Trauma Sex Addict Help
334 Truth and Beauty Ann Patchett Signature Reads
335 Unlimited Power Fit Recovery
336 unSweetined Jodie Sweetin, Jon Warech
Above It All treatment
337 Unwasted: My Lush Sobriety Book Riot
338 Up and Down the Mountain Pamela Leib Higgins Jody Lamb
339
Up from Down: A True Story of Recovery from Addiction
Drug Rehab
340 Valley of the Dolls Book Riot
341 Very LeFreak Book Riot
342 Waiting For Normal Leslie Connor Jody Lamb
343 Wake Up Sir Book Riot
344 What’s Left of Us Richard Farrell Goodreads
345 When A Family Is In Trouble Marge Heegaard Jody Lamb
346 When AA Doesn’t Work For You: Rational Steps to Quitting Alcohol Albert Ellis Sober Nation
347 When Painkillers Become Dangerous Ranker
348 Where it Began Book Riot
349 Whiteout Ranker
350 Why marijuana should be legal Ranker
351 Wild Cheryl Strayed
Above It All treatment
352 Wishes and Worries: Coping with a Parent Who Drinks Too Much Alcohol the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Jody Lamb
353 Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher
Above It All treatment
354
Women, Sex, and Addiction: A Search for Love and Power
Sex Addict Help
355 Writers on the Edge: 22 Writers Speak about Addiction and Dependency Diana Raab Goodreads
356 Writing on drugs Ranker
357 You Are Not Your Brain Fit Recovery
358 Your Brain on Porn Gary Wilson Nerdy Creator
359 Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F. Christiane F. Goodreads


24 Best Addiction Book Sources/Lists



Source Article
Above It All treatment The 20 Best Addiction & Recovery Memoirs – Above It All Treatment …
Book Riot 100 Must-Read Books About Addiction – Book Riot
Clear Sky Recovery 12 Must Read Books on Addiction and Recovery
Drug Rehab 14 Books About Addiction and Recovery – DrugRehab.com
Electric Literature Six Powerful Books about Addiction and Recovery That Will Make You …
Fit Recovery Best Books For Alcoholism – Top 20 Books To Transcend Addiction …
Five Books The Best Books on Drug Addiction | Five Books
Futures Of Palm Beach 5 Best Books on Addiction – Futures of Palm Beach
Goodreads Best Addiction Books (62 books) – Goodreads
Harbor Village Florida Top 5 Addiction Recovery Books – Harbor Village Detox
Inspire Malibu Top 25 Books On Drug and Alcohol Addiction – Inspire Malibu
Jody Lamb Best books for children about addiction – Jody Lamb
Luxury Rehab Center The 10 Best Books about Addiction – Luxury Drug & Alcohol Rehab …
Moyer Foundation Top 10 Books on Addiction | Moyer Foundation
Nerdy Creator Best Books on Addiction Recovery | Nerdy Creator Bookclub
New Start Recovery 5 Best Books on Addiction and Recovery – New Start Recovery
Ranker Drug Addiction Books: List of Books About Drug Addiction – Ranker
Recovery 6 Essential Books for Those with an Addicted Loved One – Recovery.org
Sex Addict Help Resource Books – Recommended Reading – Sex Addiction Therapy …
Signature Reads Kicking the Habit: 10 of the Best Books on Addiction – Signature Reads
Sober Nation 10 Best Books on Addiction and Recovery – Sober Nation
Solutions Recovery Recommended Reading for Addiction Recovery – Solutions Recovery
Test Country Top 10 Best Books For Addiction Recovery – TestCountry
Work It Health 6 Best Books on Addiction To Break Down Stigma and Open Your …

 

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