Best Books To Study A.A.

Alcoholics Anonymous (1939)

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (1953)

Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age (1957)

Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers (1980)

Pass It On: The Story of Bill Wilson and How the A.A.. Message Reached the World (1984)

The Language of the Heart (1988)

Mel B., Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W. (Hazelden Pittman 1997)

Dale Mitchel, Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks (Hazelden Pittman 2002)

Charlotte Hunter, Billye Jones, and Joan Zieger, Women Pioneers in 12 Step Recovery (Hazelden 1999)

Nell Wing, Grateful to Have Been There (Parkside 1992)

Sally Brown and David R. Brown, A Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann: The First Lady of Alcoholics Anonymous (Hazelden, 2001)

Mary C. Darrah, Sister Ignatia: Angel of Alcoholics Anonymous (Loyola University Press 1992)

Nancy Olson, With a Lot of Help from Our Friends: The Politics of Alcoholism (Hindsfoot 2003)

Marty Mann’s New Primer on Alcoholism (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1958)

Joseph Kessel, The Road Back: A Report on Alcoholics Anonymous (Knopf 1962)

Ed Webster, The Little Red Book (Coll-Webb 1946)

Ed Webster, Stools and Bottles (Coll-Webb 1955)

Richmond Walker, The 7 Points of Alcoholics Anonymous (1956)

Thomas Randall, The Twelfth Step, A Novel (Scribner’s 1957)

Leslie Turner told the A.A. story in the comic strip Wash Tubs (April 4-May 14, 1949)

William L. White, Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America (Chestnut Health Systems 1998)

Ernest Kurtz, Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous (Hazelden 1979)

Ernest Kurtz, AA: The Story (Harper & Row 1988)

Mitchell K., How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio (AA Big Book Study Group 1999)

Robert Fitzgerald, The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S..J. and Bill Wilson in Letters (Hazelden 1995)

Bill Pittman, AA the Way It Began (Glen Abbey Books 1988)

Charlie Bishop, Jr., and Bill Pittman, To Be Continued: The Alcoholics Anonymous World Bibliography 1935-1994 (Bishop of Books 1994)

Wally P., But for the Grace of God: How Intergroups & Central Offices Carried the Message of Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1940’s (Bishop of Books 1995)

Glenn F. Chesnut, Changed by Grace: V. C. Kitchen, the Oxford Group, and A.A. (Hindsfoot 2006)

Audrey Borden, The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous (Haworth 2007)

Richard M. Dubiel, The Road to Fellowship: The Role of the Emmanuel Movement and the Jacoby Club in the Development of Alcoholics Anonymous (Hindsfoot 2004)

Ernest Kurtz, The Collected Ernie Kurtz (Bishop of Books 1999, repr.. Hindsfoot 2008)

Alcohol, Science and Society: Twenty-nine Lectures with Discussions as given at the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies (Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol,1945)

Sgt. Bill S. with Glenn F. Chesnut, On the Military Firing Line in the Alcoholism Treatment Program (Hindsfoot 2003)

Advisory Actions of the General Service Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous (AAWS 1951-2007 updated annually)

The Washingtonians and Alcoholics Anonymous (Bishop of Books 1992 reprint of 1842 Washington Temperance Society book)

Francis Hartigan, Bill W: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson (St. Martin’s Press 2000)

Ernest Kurtz, Alcoholics Anonymous and the Disease Concept of Alcoholism, 50+ pages (search internet)

William L. White, Let’s Go Make Some History: Chronicles of the New Addiction Recovery Advocacy Movement (Johnson Institute 2006)

Trysh Travis, The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

Ernie Kurtz with Bill White, Reflections: Ernie Kurtz on the History of A.A., Spirituality, Shame, and Storytelling (DVD, Great Lakes, ATTC, 2010 — 45 minute delight with great AA historian EK)

Lois Wilson, Lois Remembers (New York: Al-Anon Family Groups Headquarters, 1987)

RALPH PFAU (Father John Doe) was one of the most published A.A. authors: The 14 Golden Books: Spiritual Side (1947) Tolerance (1948), Attitudes (1949), Action (1950), Excuses (1952) Happiness (1951), Sponsorship (1953), Principles (1954) Resentments (1955), Decisions (1957), Passion (1960), Sanit1 (1963), Sanctity (1964), and Living (1964). Also Sobriety and Beyond (1955), Sobriety Without End (1957), and his autobiography: Prodigal Shepherd (1958)

Bob Smith and Sue Smith Windows, as told to P. Christine Brewer, Children of the Healer: The Story of Dr. Bob’s Kids (Hazelden, 1992)

William G. Borchert, The Lois Wilson Story: When Love Is Not Enough (Hazelden, 2005)

Mel B., New Wine: The Spiritual Roots of the Twelve Step Miracle (Hazelden, 1991)

On Sunday, January 27, 2019, 1:51:51 PM EST, Richard Tompkins ​richardwtompkins@gmail..com [AAHistoryLovers2] <​AAHistoryLovers2@yahoogroups.com​> wrote:

Hi Chad, you were asking about AA history books… http://aa-nia.org/history/

In case you would like to enjoy a Delegate Area’s history, open this site. Protecting our anonymity (even my authorship), the book has many personal recollections of longtimers fom the beginnings of our fellowship here in Illinois and it’s the result of six years’ research. Best regards, Rick, Illinois

On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:23 AM Chad P ​alcoholicnamedchad@yahoo.com​ [AAHistoryLovers2] <​AAHistoryLovers2@yahoogroups.com​> wrote:

Hi, hope you’re doing well. Getting to work on the March “this month in AA history” article for the New Frontier newsletter in western New York, I’m seeing that a few books seem vital for my archives work so far: “AA Comes of Age,” “Not God,” “Pass It On,” and maybe “Dr. Bob and the Good Old Timers.”

Any other suggested titles, for an AA archi