The most popular addiction books of 2021

Books about addiction tell stories of dependence on alcohol, drugs, gambling and more. They show the pull of the habit, the damage to family and work, and the hard road of recovery. Novels and memoirs here are unsparing and often deeply hopeful, written by people who know. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.

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You'd Be Home Now
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You'd Be Home Now

Kathleen Glasgow كاثلين غلاسكو

Published 2021

387 pages

Concrete Rose
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Concrete Rose

Angie Thomas

Published 2021

368 pages

Roxy (Export)
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Roxy (Export)

Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman

Published 2021

384 pages

Pilgrim Bell
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Pilgrim Bell

Kaveh Akbar

2021 · 2022 edition

80 pages

Crisis Zone
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Crisis Zone

Simon Hanselmann

Published 2021

290 pages

Undoing Drugs
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Undoing Drugs

Maia Szalavitz

2021 · 2022 edition

384 pages

Why We Fly
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Why We Fly

Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal

2021 · 2023 edition

320 pages

Fadeaway
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Fadeaway

E. B. Vickers

Published 2021

400 pages