Honest Voices and Recovery Journeys - A diverse, actionable reading list of memoirs about alcohol struggles, treatment, and resilience. From hard-hitting classics to modern, hopeful recoveries.
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Grandchildren of Alcoholics: Another Generation of Co-Dependency
Ann W. Smith
Portrait of the Alcoholic
Kaveh Akbar
Confessions of a teenage alcoholic
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My Name Is Davy, I'm an Alcoholic
Anne Snyder
The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage
Al-Anon Family Groups
A Life Turned Upside Down: My Dad's an Alcoholic
Mariko Kikuchi
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Janet Geringer Woititz
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality (My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness)
Kabi Nagata
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
Bill Clegg
Drunk Mom
Jowita Bydlowska
We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
Laura McKowen
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
Lisa F. Smith
The Night of the Gun
David Carr
Wishful Drinking
Carrie Fisher
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Marya Hornbacher
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Sarah Hepola
Lit
Mary Karr
Drinking: A Love Story
Caroline Knapp
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Nic Sheff
Dry by Burroughs, Augusten (2004) Hardcover
Augusten Burro
The Lost Weekend
Charles R. Jackson
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Koren Zailckas
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David Sheff
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
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