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Related Genres

Crime Fiction
Drama
Literary Fiction
Memoir
Modernist Literature
Motivational
Psychological Fiction
Southern Gothic
Thriller

Related Subjects

Abuse
Addiction And Recovery
ADHD
Alcoholism And Addiction
Anxiety
Anxiety Disorders
Betrayal
Depression
Desire
Detoxification
Diabetes
Domestic Abuse
Drug Addiction
Drug Trafficking
Drug Use
Family And Relationships
Family Dynamics
Father-Son Relationships
Friendship
Gambling
Guilt And Redemption
Habit Formation
Loneliness
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Memory Loss
Mental Health
Mental Illness
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Obsession
Psychedelics
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Redemption
Relationships
Revenge
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Addiction

Beneath this Man
Beneath this Man
Jodi Ellen Malpas

from $4.79

The body (Fall from Innocence)
The body (Fall from Innocence)
Stephen King

from $11.19

The Radleys
The Radleys
Matt Haig

from $4.09

Origin in Death
Origin in Death
J.D. Robb

from $4.29

Madam: A Novel of New Orleans
Madam: A Novel of New Orleans
Cari Lynn

from $4.29

Little Green
Little Green
Walter Mosley

from $4.79

Nothing Less
Nothing Less
Anna Todd

from $6.39

Jolie Blon's Bounce
Jolie Blon's Bounce
James Lee Burke

from $3.99

Codependent No More & Beyond Codependency
Codependent No More & Beyond Codependency
Melody Beattie

from $4.99

Spare Change
Spare Change
Robert B. Parker

from $4.29

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
Stephen King

from $5.49

Sleepwalk
Sleepwalk
Dan Chaon

from $4.42

The Amen Corner
The Amen Corner
James Baldwin

from $7.69

The New Iberia Blues
The New Iberia Blues
James Lee Burke

from $5.09

Breaking Bad - Season 03
Breaking Bad - Season 03

from $5.49

Batman: White Knight
Batman: White Knight
Sean Murphy

from $16.66

Damage
Damage
John Lescroart

from $4.19

The Legal Limit
The Legal Limit
Martin Clark

from $18.98

Tales of Ordinary Madness
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Charles Bukowski

from $12.29

Winter Counts
Winter Counts
David Heska Wanbli Weiden

from $4.19

Non-Fiction

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
Marc Lewis

from $15.51

Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
Maia Szalavitz

from $6.19

They Told Me Their Stories
They Told Me Their Stories
J. Edward Morris

from $5.69

Anne Sexton: A Biography
Anne Sexton: A Biography
Diane Wood Middlebrook

from $4.69

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
David Wojnarowicz

from $9.17

Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Alex Berenson

from $5.89

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy
David Sheff

from $3.99

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Michael Moss

from $4.49

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Kiese Laymon

from $4.29

Drink The Intimate Relationship
Drink The Intimate Relationship
Ann Dowsett Johnston

from $4.29

Stolen Focus
Stolen Focus
Johann Hari

from $12.19

Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
Judith Grisel

from $14.39

Prayers for Prodigals
Prayers for Prodigals
James Banks

from $5.59

This Is Your Mind on Plants
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan

from $11.39

The Empathy Exams: Essays
The Empathy Exams: Essays
Leslie Jamison

from $4.29

Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
Carl L Hart

from $9.19

The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
Robert H. Lustig

from $10.69

Drugs, Society & Human Behavior [Custom for Century College
Drugs, Society & Human Behavior [Custom for Century College
Carl L. Hart

from $3.86

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Gabor Maté

from $17.37

Betrayal

Blaze
Blaze
Stephen King

from $4.09

The Third Victim
The Third Victim
Lisa Gardner

from $3.99

The Candy House
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan

from $6.19

Flaggermusmannen
Flaggermusmannen
Jo Nesbø

from $4.19

Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous

from $7.29

After We Fell
After We Fell
Anna Todd

from $4.59

That Was Then, This Is Now
That Was Then, This Is Now
S.E. Hinton

from $3.59

Lover Unbound
Lover Unbound
J.R. Ward

from $4.39

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
Raymond Carver

from $10.99

Lullaby Town
Lullaby Town
Robert Crais

from $3.99

Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do
Robert B. Parker's Damned If You Do
Michael Brandman

from $4.09

Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry

from $5.59

The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman

from $6.09

Addicted
Addicted
Zane

from $4.19

The Kitchen House
The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom

from $4.19

V is for Vengeance
V is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton

from $4.49

Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann

from $11.79

Confess
Confess
Colleen Hoover

from $7.69

Family Dynamics

Tell Me Lies
Tell Me Lies
Carola Lovering

from $6.09

We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
Nic Sheff

from $3.99

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill

from $3.59

Revival
Revival
Stephen King

from $4.39

A Morning for Flamingos
A Morning for Flamingos
James Lee Burke

from $4.39

It Will Never Happen to ME
It Will Never Happen to ME
Claudia Black

from $3.99

Hooked
Hooked
Emily McIntire

from $15.17

Tricks
Tricks
Ellen Hopkins

from $4.39

The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage
The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage
Al-Anon Family Groups

from $5.19

Credence
Credence
Penelope Douglas

from $15.84

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lucia Berlin

from $4.99

The Hour I First Believed
The Hour I First Believed
Wally Lamb

from $3.99

Hey, Kiddo
Hey, Kiddo
Jarrett J. Krosoczka

from $4.99

Idiot: Essays
Idiot: Essays
Laura Clery

from $3.89

A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

from $4.09

The Tea Rose
The Tea Rose
Jennifer Donnelly

from $4.09

NW
NW
Zadie Smith

from $3.99

Blue-Eyed Devil
Blue-Eyed Devil
Robert B. Parker

from $4.29

Literary Fiction

Where the Line Bleeds
Where the Line Bleeds
Jesmyn Ward

from $7.49

Shuggie Bain
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart

from $4.49

The Removed
The Removed
Brandon Hobson

from $4.59

Father and Son
Father and Son
Larry Brown

from $4.29

Mohawk
Mohawk
Richard Russo

from $3.99

Age of Vice
Age of Vice
Deepti Kapoor

from $7.19

Angels
Angels
Denis Johnson

from $11.79

The Bohemians
The Bohemians
Norman Ohler

from $4.79

Good Morning, Midnight
Good Morning, Midnight
Jean Rhys

from $14.29

Long Bright River
Long Bright River
Liz Moore

from $4.09

The Coal Tattoo
The Coal Tattoo
Silas House

from $15.57

Look at Me
Look at Me
Jennifer Egan

from $4.29

Liberation Day
Liberation Day
George Saunders

from $11.69

Burning Bright: Stories
Burning Bright: Stories
Ron Rash

from $4.39

Last Night at the Lobster
Last Night at the Lobster
Stewart O'Nan

from $4.09

Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr.

from $8.79

Of Women and Salt
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia

from $4.29

Where I’m Calling From
Where I’m Calling From
Raymond Carver

from $4.59

Collected Stories
Collected Stories
Tennessee Williams

from $6.29

The Gambler
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky

from $5.39

Mental Health

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Sarah Hepola

from $4.89

Living Sober
Living Sober
Alcoholics Anonymous

from $5.39

Adult Children of Alcoholics
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Janet Geringer Woititz

from $3.89

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous

from $4.69

The Magicians
The Magicians
Lev Grossman

from $4.19

Nine Perfect Strangers
Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty

from $4.19

 [Ningen Shikkaku]
 [Ningen Shikkaku]
Osamu Dazai

from $12.79

His bright light
His bright light
Danielle Steel

from $4.69

Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence
Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence
Andrea Wells Miller

from $4.59

Madness: A Bipolar Life
Madness: A Bipolar Life
Marya Hornbacher

from $3.99

A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy
A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy
Dave Pelzer

from $5.89

Drinking: A Love Story
Drinking: A Love Story
Caroline Knapp

from $4.09

Sugar Blues
Sugar Blues
William Dufty

from $4.09

Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi

from $4.09

Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
Codependents' Guide to the Twelve Steps
Melody Beattie

from $4.09

Girl in Pieces
Girl in Pieces
Kathleen Glasgow

from $7.99

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky

from $16.48

Crush
Crush
Richard Siken

from $15.84

You'd Be Home Now
You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow

from $11.67

Recovery
Recovery
Russell Brand

from $5.49

Mental Illness

Redemption Road
Redemption Road
John Hart

from $3.59

Magical Thinking: True Stories
Magical Thinking: True Stories
Augusten Burroughs

from $4.79

Lullaby
Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk

from $4.19

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Nic Sheff

from $4.09

Jesus’ Son: Stories
Jesus’ Son: Stories
Denis Johnson

from $6.39

Christine Falls
Christine Falls
Benjamin Black

from $4.19

Property
Property
Valerie Martin

from $3.99

The Crimson Petal and the White
The Crimson Petal and the White
Michel Faber

from $4.19

Glass (Crank, #2)
Glass (Crank, #2)
Ellen Hopkins

from $4.09

The Roanoke Girls
The Roanoke Girls
Amy Engel

from $4.09

Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z. Brite

from $15.11

My Mother's Keeper
My Mother's Keeper
B.D. Hyman

from $3.99

Strange Weather
Strange Weather
Joe Hill

from $6.59

August: Osage County
August: Osage County
Tracy Letts

from $3.99

Animal
Animal
Lisa Taddeo

from $6.69

Possible Side Effects
Possible Side Effects
Augusten Burroughs

from $4.79

Identical
Identical
Ellen Hopkins

from $4.09

The common theme among these books is addiction, exploring the struggles and consequences of substance abuse and other forms of addictive behavior. Many of the books feature detectives or investigators dealing with personal demons while solving mysteries, as well as memoirs and personal essays that offer raw and honest accounts of addiction and recovery. Other common themes include family dynamics, relationships, mental health, and societal issues related to addiction.

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