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ADDICTION FICTION: Fiction Book reviews featuring addiction, recovery, and mental health storylines.
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Author Anna David reflects on the evolution from her early “will-say-anything” sober party girl years to motherhood, trauma recovery, and a more grounded understanding of herself. In this personal essay, she shares why she re-released a cleaner version of Party Girl 15 years later — and what happens when the wildest version of your past is still searchable, sellable, and occasionally handed to you by your child’s school principal.
Rufi Thorpe came to BACKSTAGE. Here is the five-minute clip, the conversation that broke the room, and the answer I am still thinking about.
Our recent live Alcohol Free Life Podcast event with the brilliant Catherine Gray left me buzzing, and thinking, long after…
The book that’s been living rent-free in our Addiction Fiction section for two years just became Apple TV+’s most anticipated…
Before there were podcasts about sobriety, before there were NA cocktail menus at every trendy bar, before the word “sober-curious”…
Kevin Kaufmann’s “Rigorous Honesty” looks at Alcoholics Anonymous in a different way. Instead of treating AA only as a recovery…
“Quit lit” — short for quit literature — includes books about addiction, sobriety, recovery, and personal transformation. These stories range…
Rabbi Shais Taub wrote a book about the twelve steps that doesn’t sound like any other book about the twelve…
“The River Is Waiting” is a painful, honest novel about guilt, grief, and the long road toward forgiveness. Wally Lamb…
Imagine if Sex and the City’s Samantha was an addict and her drug of choice was men. Go on a hilarious,…
“The Weight of Air” tracks Poses through multiple relapses, treatment centers, and the grinding dailiness of trying to stay clean.…
The first thing you need to know about “Leaving Las Vegas” is that John O’Brien wrote it to die. Not…
After reading Patti Clark’s book, “Recovery Road Trip: Finding Purpose and Connection on the Journey Home”, I finally felt like…
“The Disenchanted” is a short but powerful novel about talent, ego, and self-destruction. It is loosely based on Budd Schulberg’s…
The Sober Curious Activity Book doesn’t arrive with a wagging finger or a life sentence. It shows up like a…
The Dark Side of Addiction … and the Light at the End of the Tunnel I started writing this piece…
To write your recovery story is an act of courage. Writing a raw memoir, writing ‘Addiction Fiction,’ or crafting a…
Bob Huppert delivers a chilling blend of psychological horror and addiction drama, portraying alcoholism not as a subplot but as…
A sassy (but spiritually grounded) Step 4–5 workbook for anyone who wants freedom in 2026. If you’re starting the New…
No one ever expects their own brother to burn the house down. Every so often, a book comes along that…
Maia Szalavitz’s “Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction” lives up to its title. It doesn’t simply reframe…
Jen Hatmaker’s “Awake” lands like a spiritual defibrillator, jolting readers out of the autopilot haze we Gen Xers perfected somewhere…
#QUITLIT, WRITTEN FROM THE INSIDE OUT: Celebrating the Sober Curator Contributors Who Literally Wrote the Book(s) on Recovery There’s a…
Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. What makes…
What does it mean to be “the most human”? In “The Most Human”, Adam Nimoy invites readers into a deeply…
There’s a moment in the conversation when Adam Nimoy says something so simple, so clean, so spiritually efficient that everything else…
All I could think about while reading Megan Swan’s memoir, Marinating in Chaos: Live Intuitively, Make Bold and Authentic Decisions,…
If you’ve been hanging around The Sober Curator for any length of time, you already know Teresa Bergen. She’s the…
Some books are tough to review because of the writing itself. Others are challenging because of the uncomfortable truths they…