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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.48 — 25,627 ratings — published 2007
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 289 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 111,723 ratings — published 2007
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 909,935 ratings — published 2022
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 296,764 ratings — published 1971
A Million Little Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.70 — 267,001 ratings — published 2003
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 423,804 ratings — published 2022
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 157,909 ratings — published 2004
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 48,636 ratings — published 2008
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,954,866 ratings — published 2019
Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)
by (shelved 154 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.69 — 204,562 ratings — published 2013
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 47,460 ratings — published 2018
Dry (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 99,341 ratings — published 2003
Drinking: A Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,872 ratings — published 1996
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,712 ratings — published 2019
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,629,331 ratings — published 2022
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,743 ratings — published 2015
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 22,558 ratings — published 2015
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (ebook)
by (shelved 114 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 99,541 ratings — published 2021
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,850 ratings — published 1953
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,680 ratings — published 2020
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,395,029 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 — 35,790 ratings — published 2018
Glass (Crank, #2)
by (shelved 105 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 75,856 ratings — published 2007
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 207,504 ratings — published 2020
High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,931 ratings — published 2017
Long Bright River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 217,001 ratings — published 2020
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,330 ratings — published 2016
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,028 ratings — published 2018
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 70,205 ratings — published 1978
Wishful Drinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,218 ratings — published 2008
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.53 — 152,381 ratings — published 2021
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 33,163 ratings — published 2015
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.53 — 24,994 ratings — published 2005
Martyr! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 225,455 ratings — published 2024
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 186,518 ratings — published 1993
Heroine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,942 ratings — published 2019
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,960 ratings — published 1959
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,207 ratings — published 2007
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,413,077 ratings — published 2005
Fallout (Crank, #3)
by (shelved 74 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,612 ratings — published 2010
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,698 ratings — published 2017
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,457 ratings — published 2015
Alcoholics Anonymous (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.49 — 12,280 ratings — published 1939
The River Is Waiting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 225,067 ratings — published 2025
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.42 — 152,178 ratings — published 2023
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 624,663 ratings — published 2018
Addicted for Now (Addicted, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 92,435 ratings — published 2013
Ricochet (Addicted, #2)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.73 — 115,413 ratings — published 2013
Lit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as addiction)
avg rating 3.94 — 28,597 ratings — published 2009
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as addiction)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,833,879 ratings — published 2024
“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
― On Photography
― On Photography












