Hi there,
I’d like to know what kinds of books anyone likes or any books they would recommend?
Thank you!
Happy reading.
recovery related or pleasure?
recovery related stuff i liked - peace is every step, the art of happiness, the four agreements
for pleasure i recently loved - the oracle, exhalation, and currently starting neuromancer.
the forum search function will also pull up a bunch of threads you can scroll through on reading material. 
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Here are some of the recovery books/ memoirs/quit lit that I found enlightening …
This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
Push Off From Here by Laura McKowen
Quit Like A Woman by Holly Whitaker
We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowen
Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps by Charlotte Davis Kasl
Last Call by Nancy Carr
I’m Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering by Janelle Hanchett
The Sober Diaries
The Gilded Razor by Sam Lansky (major trigger warning)
Broken People by Sam Lansky
Parched by Heather King
Unwasted, My Lush Sobriety
Blackout, Remembering the things I drank to forget
My Fair Junkie by Amy Dresner
Hopeful Healing by Mackenzie Phillips
Sober Truths, The Making of an honest woman
Saturation by Jennifer Place
Sober Curious, Ruby Warrington
Girl Walks Out of a Bar by Lisa Smith
A Happier Hour by Rebecca Weller
High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips
Under the Influence by Joyce Maynard
Ice and a Slice by Della Galton
Memoirs aren’t Fairytales
Don’t Take With Alcohol
Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife
12 Small Things by Allen Burger
On Writing by Stephen King
A Drinking Life, Pete Hamill
Dry, Augusten Burroughs
Smacked by Eilene Zimmerman
How To Murder Your Life, Cat Marnell
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
Anything and everything written by Charles Bukowski
Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler
Blame, Michelle Huneven
Goa Freaks, Cleo Odzer
I also read a lot of memoirs from musicians and/or their spouses and other people in the public eye……which often deal with substance abuse…
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Warren Zevon
The Dirt, Motley Crue
Long Time Gone, David Crosby (probably my 'favorite ’ in the genre, what an ass and what a mess)
It’s Only Rock n Roll, Jo Woods memoir about life with Ron
Dirty Rocker Boys, Bobbie Brown
Wonderful Tonight, Pattie Boyd
The Road Through Wonderland, Dawn Schiller (look it up…intense!! She is a survivor!!)
Beauty Disrupted, Carrie Otis
Thing of Beauty by Stephen Fried
Other books that have been influential or eye opening for me…in no order…
you are here by Thich Nhat Hahn
Be Here Now, Ram Dass
Walking Each Other Home, Ram Dass
Radical Compassion, Tara Brach
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Only Love Today, Rachel Stafford
Why Bother, Discover the Desire for What’s Next by Jennifer Loudon
The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Gifts From The Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Yoga 365
The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene Brown
Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Art of Happiness, The Dalai Lama
You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay
Judgement Detox, Gabrielle Bernstein
Living Beautifully, Pema Chodrun
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Illustrated Rumi
The Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu
Wild, Cheryl Strayed
Anything and everything written by Pema Chodrun or Thich Nhat Hanh
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I havent read any recovery based books so I cant help there.
My favourite books though, are novels that have been translated. You get a completely different feel from the writing styles youd be used to from your native language. My favourites are:
Independent People - Hallador Laxness (this is my favourite book full stop)
The Golem - Gustav Meyrink
The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
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Defiantly Russell Brand - addiction recovery !
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Thank you. 
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Both! 
I haven’t finished reading the four agreements. It’s good so far though.
Okay, sounds good
Thanks for your post.
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All of the titles sound very interesting! Thanks!
I’m gathering some books to read.
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I’ll have to look them up.
Thanks for the reply
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Love that boook! I’ve been following his online series too. onecommune.com/products/recovery-with-russell-brand-free-from-jan-13-24
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My three faves are:
- 12 Steps on Buddha’s Path by Bill, Buddha, and We
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Branch
- Recovery by Russell Brand
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For pleasure high fantasy has always been my thing. If your a Game of Thrones type then:
The stormlight archive - Brandon Sanderson
The first law trilogy - Joe Abercrombie
About to try the kingkiller chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss which came highly recommended
For sobriety Russel Brands Recovery is a great place to start regardless of the addiction.
Happy reading!
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The book of five rings by miyomoto musashi
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