Books about Recovery

In no particular order, here are some of the books I recommend about recovering from drug and alcohol use:

• Drinking, a Love Story, by Caroline Knapp

• Lit, by Mary Karr

• Stash, by Laura Cathcart Robbins

• Quit Like a Woman, by Holly Whitaker

• The Urge: Our History of Addiction, by Carl Erik Fisher

• Quitter: A memoir of drinking, relapse, and recovery, by Erica C. Barnett

• Undoing Drugs: How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction, by Maia Szalavitz

• Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola