
Book Recommendations
Alanon Books: (Very critical to read the ones with *)
1. How Al-Anon Works for Families & Friends of Alcoholics*
1. Paths to recovery – Al-Anons steps, traditions and concepts*
2. Courage to change – Alanon
3. One Day at a time in Al-anon
4. As We Understood by Al-Anon Family Group
Additional Books about Addiction/Codependency:
1. Codependent no more – Melody Beattie
2. Codependent no more Workbook – Melody Beattie
3. The Language of letting go – Melody Beattie
4. Codependents Guide to the twelve steps - Melody Beattie
5. The New codependency: Help and Guidance for today’s generation – Melody Beattie
6. Beyond codependency – Melody Beattie
7. Unbroken Brain – Maia Szalavitz
8. The Mindfulness workbook for addiction – Rebecca Williams
9. Addict in the family – Beverly Conyers
10. Don’t let your kids kill you – Charles Rubin
11. Setting boundaries with your adult children – Allison Bottke
12. Beautiful Boy – David Sheff
13. Saving Jake – D’Anne Burwell
14. Jagged little edges – Lorelie Rozzano
15. Jagged little lies - Lorelie Rozzano
16. Jagged no more - Lorelie Rozzano
17. Another chance – Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse
18. Still standing after all the tears – Valerie Silveira
19. Dance of Anger – Harriet Lerner
Books for kids effected by addiction:
1. Gracie’s Secret - Lorelie Rozzano
2. My Dad Loves me – Claudia Black
3. Understanding Addiction and recovery through child’s eyes –Jerry Moe
4. An elephant in the living room – Jill Hastings
5. When a family is in trouble – Marge Heegaard
6. Daddy’s Disease – Carolyn Hannan Bell
7. Mommy’s Disease – Carloyn Hannan Bell
8. Critters Cry to – Anthony Curcio
9. The brown bottle – Penny Jones
Older Kids (Teenage) books:
1. Emmy’s Question – Jeannine Auth
2. Alateen – Hope for children
3. Courage to be me: Livng with Alcoholism
4. Alateen, a day at a time
5. Alateen, Talks back on detachment
6. Alateen, Talks back on higher power
7. Teenagers living with a parent who abuses alcohol/drugs – Edith Lynn Hornik-Beer