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What books would you recommend?


What books would you recommend Beginners read first?

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My favourite, by a landslide, would be "Getting Them Sober", volume one, by Toby Rice Drews.  Don't let the name fool you, but it was a lifesaver for me and my sanity!!

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if you are looking for al-anon literature - I really liked "How Al-Anon Works" & "Paths to Recovery", "Courage to Change" (daily devotional)

Some people like other books like "Co-Dependent no More" & "Getting Them Sober"

After a while the Big Book of AA was a good book - but in the beginning of my recovery when i tried to read it - it just made me a little resentful -

Others may have suggestions also

Hope this helps,

Rita

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Wilted,

Great question.

Do you attend any face to face meetings? If so, there should be pamphlets that are free there. All of those are great. We offer new comer packets at our meetings, which have a bunch of literature for our people.

I like the daily readers One Day At A Time and Courage to Change. No matter where I am at they help me. I can look in the index and find a reading absed on what I need, or I can read the daily reading, and maybe think of another part of recovery that isn't on my mind.

Path's To Recovery, is a great book that will help you with the learn what each step means and the traditions and the concepts, it is a great tool.

Whatever you choose the are all good.

Yours in recovery,
Mandy

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Hi and welcome  for me it s the ODAT our first daily reader ,it is awsome for begginers keeps it simple and is designed to help me change my attitiude about what is going on around me , and my other fav is HOW Al -Anon works , every thing u need to know is in that book .  My fav pamphlet is on DETACHMENT. save my life that littlel piece of paper . and my all time fav is July 14 in the ODAT 
Life changing that paragraph .  good luck   Louise

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I'd also suggest checking out the Forum, the alanon magazine.  Very helpful especially for people who do not get to f2f meetings too often - it has the feel of a meeting for me. Not everybody writing in the Forum has it all together, all the time, but they are all stumbling along with us.   It's pretty cheap, too, or I bet your f2f will just lend you old copies.


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