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Addiction Books
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 281 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 23,492 ratings — published 2007
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 105,666 ratings — published 2007
A Million Little Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 262,937 ratings — published 2003
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 775,216 ratings — published 2022
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 291,323 ratings — published 1971
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 199 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 392,191 ratings — published 2022
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 190 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 154,949 ratings — published 2004
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,020 ratings — published 2008
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,832,259 ratings — published 2019
Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 191,104 ratings — published 2013
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,286 ratings — published 2018
Dry (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 98,216 ratings — published 2003
Drinking: A Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,364 ratings — published 1996
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,334 ratings — published 2019
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,434,700 ratings — published 2022
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,220 ratings — published 2015
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.50 — 21,620 ratings — published 2015
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 161,485 ratings — published 2020
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,263,926 ratings — published 2015
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,148 ratings — published 2018
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,127 ratings — published 1953
Glass (Crank, #2)
by (shelved 101 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 74,464 ratings — published 2007
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (ebook)
by (shelved 100 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 81,852 ratings — published 2021
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,264 ratings — published 2016
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 93,189 ratings — published 2008
High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,926 ratings — published 2017
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,816 ratings — published 2018
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 189,247 ratings — published 2020
Long Bright River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 184,007 ratings — published 2020
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 64,832 ratings — published 1978
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.54 — 133,948 ratings — published 2021
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,101 ratings — published 2015
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.53 — 24,900 ratings — published 2005
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,318 ratings — published 1959
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 178,132 ratings — published 1993
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,531 ratings — published 2017
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,352,866 ratings — published 2005
Fallout (Crank, #3)
by (shelved 73 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,745 ratings — published 2010
Alcoholics Anonymous (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 11,831 ratings — published 1939
Heroine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,430 ratings — published 2019
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 39,160 ratings — published 2007
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,341 ratings — published 2015
Lit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 28,198 ratings — published 2009
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.60 — 555,527 ratings — published 2018
Addicted for Now (Addicted, #3)
by (shelved 65 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 86,470 ratings — published 2013
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,885 ratings — published 2010
Ricochet (Addicted, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 107,547 ratings — published 2013
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 151,868 ratings — published 2024
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,853 ratings — published 1971
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,507,620 ratings — published 2024
“There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“One thing I've learned is it's better to be addicted to things than people. You get hooked on a thing and if someone takes it from you, you can find another source. Only people can really hurt you. Only people can push you out into the cold permanently.”
― Immortality is the Suck
― Immortality is the Suck












