📚 Alcoholism

Drinking that stopped being a choice: the disease concept, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the treatment literature.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject alcoholism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Doctor Sleep	Stephen King	2013	53
	Fifteen Years in Hell	Luther Benson	1879	30
	Loosening the grip	Jean Kinney	1978	18
	Alcoholics Anonymous	Alcoholics Anonymous.	1939	13
	The outrun	Amy Liptrot	2015	13
	It Will Never Happen to Me	Claudia Black	1982	11
	Getting them sober	Toby Rice Drews	1980	9
	A man named Dave	David J. Pelzer	1999	9
	Sober for Good	Anne M. Fletcher	2001	8
	I'll Quit Tomorrow	Vernon E. Johnson	1973	7
	Under the influence	James Robert Milam	1981	7
	Don't worry, he won't get far on foot	John Callahan	1989	7
	Drinking	Caroline Knapp	1996	7
	Becoming naturally therapeutic	Jacquelyn Small	1974	6
	Bill W	Robert Thomsen	1975	6
	Dark Visions	Douglas E. Winter	1989	6
	The thinking person's guide to sobriety	Bert Pluymen	1996	6
	Getting Better	Nan Robertson	1988	5
	This naked mind	Linda Burlison	2015	5
	The adult children of alcoholics syndrome	Wayne Kritsberg	1986	4
	Bill W	Francis Hartigan	2000	4
	Eating, Drinking, Overthinking	Susan Nolen-Hoeksema	2005	4
	Calling a wolf a wolf	Kaveh Akbar	2017	4
	The Easy Way to Stop Drinking	Allen Carr	2005	3
	The dilemma of the alcoholic marriage	Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, inc.	1967	2
	Living sober.	Alcoholics Anonymous	1975	2
	Struggle for Intimacy	Janet Geringer Woititz	1985	2
	Staying sober	Terence T. Gorski	1986	2
	"It will never happen to me!"	Claudia Black	1987	2
	Self Sabotage Syndrome	Janet Geringer Woititz	1989	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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