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Recommended reading

Books for healing and recovery

A curated collection for people navigating addiction, families supporting recovery, and anyone working through trauma.

We Are the Luckiest book cover

Addiction

We Are the Luckiest

by Laura McKowen

A Drinking Life book cover

Addiction

A Drinking Life

by Pete Hamill

Beautiful Boy book cover

Addiction

Beautiful Boy

by David Sheff

Running on Empty book cover

Addiction

Running on Empty

by Jonice Webb

Dry book cover

Addiction

Dry

by Neal Shusterman

Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery book cover

Addiction

Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

by Erica C. Barnett

Beyond Addiction book cover

For Families

Beyond Addiction

by Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, Nicole Kosanke & Stephanie Higgs

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics book cover

For Families

Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics

by Herbert Gravitz

Adult Children of Alcoholics book cover

For Families

Adult Children of Alcoholics

by Janet G. Woititz

In an Unspoken Voice book cover

Trauma

In an Unspoken Voice

by Peter A. Levine

The Body Keeps the Score book cover

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

Dreamland book cover

Trauma

Dreamland

by Sam Quinones