32 Outstanding Books About Addiction Recovery

Here is a list of recovery-based book recommendations that we have received from a wide variety of people in recovery. These are books that they have found to be inspiring and extremely helpful in their own personal recovery journeys. We hope you will check this out and find some hope and inspiration! There's a little something for everyone here! 

1. This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life

2. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

3. The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life

4. Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

5. A New Pair of Glasses

6. The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors

7. Living Clean: The Journey Continues

8. A Happier Hour

9. Prayers, Punk Rock and Pastry

10. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

11. Recovery―The Sacred Art: The Twelve Steps as Spiritual Practice (The Art of Spiritual Living)

12. The Alternative 12 Steps: A Secular Guide To Recovery

13. Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power

14. The Twelve Step Life Recovery Devotional: Thirty Meditations from Scripture for Each Step in Recovery

15. Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life: finally, a daily reflection book for nonbelievers, freethinkers and everyone

16. Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion

17. Drop the Rock: Removing Character Defects - Steps Six and Seven

18. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

19. We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

20. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

21. Million Little Pieces

22. My Friend Leonard

23. The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living. By New York Times Bestseller

24. Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn

25. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

26. Recovery Rx

27. Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery

28. Drinking: A Love Story

29. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing

30. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

31. Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

32. Starting at Zero