City of Ghosts
Stacia Kane
Published 2010
416 pages
The most popular addiction books
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.
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Sing Backwards and Weep
Mark Lanegan
2020 · 2021 edition
335 pages
Fat Kid Rules the World
K. L. Going
2003 · 2013 edition
240 pages
The Snow Queen
Michael Cunningham
2014 · 2015 edition
272 pages
A Brother's Journey Surviving a Childhood of Abuse
Published 2005
262 pages
The Corner
David Simon
1997 · 2009 edition
628 pages
When Crack Was King
Donovan X. Ramsey
Published 2023
448 pages
Gym Candy
Carl Deuker
Published 2007
313 pages
The Language of Letting Go
Melody Beattie
1990 · 1998 edition
393 pages
Clean
Amy Reed
Published 2011
288 pages
Never Mind
Edward St. Aubyn
1992 · 2012 edition
196 pages
Imperfect Birds
Anne Lamott
Published 2010
278 pages
The Chaos
Rachel Ward
Published 2010
345 pages
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Published 2009
304 pages
Alone Together
Sherry Turkle
2011 · 2017 edition
400 pages
Reefer Madness
Eric Schlosser
2003 · 2004 edition
352 pages
Zero Zero Zero
Roberto Saviano, Pau Vidal Gavilan
2013 · 2016 edition
417 pages
Shift
Jeri Smith-Ready
Published 2011
384 pages
Stray
Stephanie Danler
Published 2020
240 pages
More, Now, Again
Elizabeth Wurtzel
2001 · 2002 edition
336 pages
Why Mummy Drinks
Gill Sims
2017 · 2018 edition
343 pages
We Are Inevitable
Gayle Forman
Published 2021
288 pages
The Night of the Gun A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life, His Own
David Carr
2008 · 2009 edition
389 pages
The Walled City
Ryan Graudin
Published 2014
448 pages