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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FIX.
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FIX.

J. Albert Mann

2021 · 2022 edition

288 pages

Needlework
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Needlework

Julia Watts

Published 2021

288 pages

The Mending Summer
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The Mending Summer

Ali Standish, Jesse Vilinsky

2021 · 2022 edition

384 pages

Punters
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Punters

Aaron Rogan

Published 2021

416 pages

Sobering
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Sobering

Melissa Rice

Published 2021

320 pages

Upstander
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Upstander

James Preller

Published 2021

256 pages

Pseudo
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Pseudo

Matilde Digmann

Published 2021

366 pages

The Drop
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The Drop

Thad Ziolkowski

Published 2021

231 pages

Blacktown
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Blacktown

Shane Weaver

Published 2021

320 pages

Smokescreen
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Smokescreen

Kevin A. Sabet, Patrick J. Kennedy

Published 2021

286 pages