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QUIT LIT. Books to help with sobriety.
A list of books that have helped me in sobriety or have been recommended by other members of the sober community.
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Drinking Games
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Sarah Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 6,754 ratings
score: 500,
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5 people voted
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100 Proof: Your triple-distilled guide to reinventing your relationship with drinking and rediscovering your happier, healthier, wealthier self
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Nicole Prentice (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them
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Michelle Elman (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Addicted to the Monkey Mind: Change the Programming That Sabotages Your Life
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J.F. Benoist (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 542 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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The Courage to Be Disliked: A single book can change your life
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3.93 avg rating — 124,793 ratings
score: 195,
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2 people voted
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Sex in Recovery: A Meeting Between the Covers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 192,
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This Isn't Me!
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4.32 avg rating — 215 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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Cleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived
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3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Living Sober, Living Free: A Guided Journal for Women Who Want to Stop Drinking
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 100,
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Me, Myself & My Amygdala: A Mindfulness Guide to Sobriety & Well-Being
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 100,
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Sobering
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4.17 avg rating — 181 ratings
score: 99,
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Infinite Jest
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4.25 avg rating — 99,370 ratings
score: 98,
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12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone: Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action (Berger 12)
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4.30 avg rating — 211 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Confronting the Bottle
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 97,
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Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
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4.04 avg rating — 23,059 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Light at the End of the Bottle: Judged by All, Helped by Few
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Vanessa Bird (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
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Catherine Gray (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 14,896 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Addicted
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3.82 avg rating — 992 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Nothing Good Can Come from This
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3.94 avg rating — 3,611 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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A HEAD FULL OF BLUE
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3.88 avg rating — 185 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
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Erica C. Barnett (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 1,401 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Sober: Football. My Story. My Life.
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3.78 avg rating — 364 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
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Holly Whitaker (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 29,932 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Dead Drunk: Saving myself from alcoholism in a Thai monastery
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3.97 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
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Lisa F. Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 6,851 ratings
score: 90,
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The Eating for Recovery: The Essential Nutrition Plan to Reverse the Physical Damage of Alcoholism
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 90,
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
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4.10 avg rating — 2,297 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Everything I Never Wanted to Be: A Memoir of Alcoholism and Addiction, Faith and Family, Hope and Humor
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Dina Kucera (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,273 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
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Amy Dresner (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,441 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Knock Knock I Need A Drink Inner-Truth Journal
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 88,
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Through a Glass Brightly : The Fall and Rise of an Alcoholic
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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From Rock Bottom To Sober Forever: The story of how a hopeless alcoholic, resigned to an early death, found complete freedom from her addiction.
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4.40 avg rating — 161 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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The Sober Diaries: The brave and brilliantly funny memoir that is changing lives
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Clare Pooley (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 9,269 ratings
score: 86,
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Glorious Rock Bottom
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4.34 avg rating — 4,358 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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Dry
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 97,816 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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The Easy Way to Stop Drinking: A Revolutionary New Approach to Escaping from the Alcohol Trap
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4.12 avg rating — 1,685 ratings
score: 83,
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Allen Carr's Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking
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4.11 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
score: 82,
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This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
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Annie Grace (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 19,541 ratings
score: 81,
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The Alcohol Experiment: A 30-day, Alcohol-Free Challenge to Interrupt Your Habits and Help You Take Control
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Annie Grace (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 2,683 ratings
score: 80,
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1 person voted
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This Naked Life: Forty-Eight True Stories of Finding Freedom from Alcohol
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Annie Grace (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 79,
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We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
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4.32 avg rating — 9,163 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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Light is the New Black: A Guide to Answering Your Soul's Callings and Working Your Light
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4.06 avg rating — 7,252 ratings
score: 77,
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Woman of Substances
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Jenny Valentish (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 498 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive
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Glennon Doyle (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 75,
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1 person voted
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Drunk Mom
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Jowita Bydlowska (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 4,498 ratings
score: 74,
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1 person voted
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
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4.48 avg rating — 22,685 ratings
score: 73,
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Mrs D is Going Without: A Memoir
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Lotta Dann (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
score: 72,
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