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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 300 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.47 — 25,937 ratings — published 2007
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 112,465 ratings — published 2007
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 930,027 ratings — published 2022
A Million Little Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.70 — 267,889 ratings — published 2003
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 297,459 ratings — published 1971
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 431,550 ratings — published 2022
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 158,480 ratings — published 2004
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,797 ratings — published 2008
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,968,619 ratings — published 2019
Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)
by (shelved 154 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,925 ratings — published 2013
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,710 ratings — published 2018
Dry (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 99,516 ratings — published 2003
Drinking: A Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,972 ratings — published 1996
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,757 ratings — published 2019
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,650,312 ratings — published 2022
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,879 ratings — published 2015
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,672 ratings — published 2015
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (ebook)
by (shelved 119 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 101,509 ratings — published 2021
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,204 ratings — published 1953
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 169,387 ratings — published 2020
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,410,972 ratings — published 2015
Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,902 ratings — published 2018
Glass (Crank, #2)
by (shelved 105 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 76,106 ratings — published 2007
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 210,421 ratings — published 2020
High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 49,213 ratings — published 2017
Long Bright River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 220,074 ratings — published 2020
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,348 ratings — published 2016
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,050 ratings — published 2018
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 70,496 ratings — published 1978
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,634 ratings — published 2008
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 156,077 ratings — published 2021
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 33,287 ratings — published 2015
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.53 — 25,006 ratings — published 2005
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 235,067 ratings — published 2024
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 187,246 ratings — published 1993
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,322 ratings — published 1959
Heroine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 14,012 ratings — published 2019
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,420,422 ratings — published 2005
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,428 ratings — published 2007
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 239,295 ratings — published 2025
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,474 ratings — published 2015
Fallout (Crank, #3)
by (shelved 74 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,765 ratings — published 2010
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,692 ratings — published 2017
Alcoholics Anonymous (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,403 ratings — published 1939
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.58 — 634,125 ratings — published 2018
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 157,352 ratings — published 2023
Blue Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 365,580 ratings — published 2024
Addicted for Now (Addicted, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 93,055 ratings — published 2013
Ricochet (Addicted, #2)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 116,129 ratings — published 2013
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,995 ratings — published 2010
“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
“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day."
(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
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(Interview with The Booklovers blog, September 2010)”
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