The Greatest Books of All Time on Alcoholism

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
63 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry 1947 British English
141 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 1945 British English
161 The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler 1953 American English
168 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934 American English
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
400 The Shining Stephen King 1977 American English
744 Moscow to the End of the Line Venedikt Yerofeev 1970 Russian Russian
821 Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth 1800 British English
888 Drunkard Émile Zola 1877 French Unknown
924 Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver 1988 American English
942 Cannery Row John Steinbeck 1945 American English
1006 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe 1958 British English
1089 Suttree Cormac McCarthy 1979 American English
1103 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë 1848 British English
1222 Studs Lonigan James T. Farrell 1932 American English
1238 The Age of Anxiety W. H. Auden 1947 British English
1312 The Stories of Raymond Carver Raymond Carver 1981 American English
1331 Cathedral Raymond Carver 1983 American English
1334 Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton 1941 British English
1473 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981 American English
1643 Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt 1996 American English
1695 The Last Good Kiss James Crumley 1978 American English
1717 The Clown Heinrich Böll 1963 German German
1773 The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian Moore 1955 Irish English
1781 Juno And The Paycock Sean O'Casey 1924 Irish English
1894 Winter In The Blood James Welch 1974 American English
2067 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman 1994 Scottish English
2156 The Green Man Kingsley Amis 1969 British English
2261 Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 1934 American English
2260 The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill 1946 American English
2302 Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 American English
2393 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 2005 American English
2632 AA Big Book Bill W 1939 American English
2669 This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 1989 American English
2801 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis 1986 British English
2957 The Lower Depths Maxim Gorky 1902 Russian Russian
3156 The Honorary Consul Graham Greene 1973 British English
3322 Post Office Charles Bukowski 1971 American English
3563 Charming Billy Alice McDermott 1998 American English
3873 The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
4139 The Liars' Club Mary Karr 1995 American English
4270 Eight Million Ways To Die Lawrence Block 1982 American English
4538 Affliction Russell Banks 1989 American English
4566 No Great Mischief Alistair MacLeod 1999 Canadian English
4592 Ten North Frederick John O'Hara 1955 American English
4652 True West Sam Shepard 1980 American English
5273 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams 1955 American English
5327 Pushkin Hills Sergei Dovlatov 1983 Russian Russian
5333 Jernigan David Gates 1991 American English
5445 The Moscoviad Yuri Andrukhovych 1993 Ukrainian Ukrainian
5716 Anatomy Of A Murder Robert Traver 1958 American English
5984 Ham On Rye Charles Bukowski 1982 American English
6470 The Sound Of My Voice Ron Butlin 1987 British English
6627 No Man's Land Harold Pinter 1975 British English
6694 The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake Breece D'J Pancake 1983 American English
6730 The Afterlife Donald Antrim 2006 American English
6821 The Pat Hobby Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1962 American English
6821 The Swimmer John Cheever 1964 American English
6821 The Lost Weekend Charles Jackson 1944 American English
6887 The Ginger Man J. P. Donleavy 1955 Irish English
6979 Reuben, Reuben Peter De Vries 1964 American English
7021 The Girl On The Train Paula Hawkins 2015 British English
7214 The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture Janet Campbell Hale 1985 American English
7615 Dirty Havana Trilogy Pedro Juan Gutierrez 1998 Cuban Spanish
7755 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
7818 Sister Gin June Arnold 1975 American English
7829 Purple America Rick Moody 1997 American English
8159 The Choirboys Joseph Wambaugh 1975 American English
8468 Babylon Revisited And Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1960 American English
8813 Man Gone Down Michael Thomas 2007 American English
8878 I'll Go To Bed At Noon Gerard Woodward 2004 British English
9258 Lit Mary Karr 2009 American English
9317 Red Lights Georges Simenon 1953 Belgian French
9828 Country Girl Edna O'Brien 2012 Irish English
9856 Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky Patrick Hamilton 1935 British English
9907 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
9953 Big Girl, Small Town Michelle Gallen 2020 Irish English
10100 A Fan's Notes Frederick Exley 1968 American English
10729 Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, And General Tales Of Ordinary Madness Charles Bukowski 1972 American English
10782 Jackson Pollock Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith 1989 American English
10849 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
11270 A Monkey In Winter Antoine Blondin 1959 French French
11357 The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Wilson 1999 British English
11401 Big Sur Jack Kerouac 1962 American English
11505 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11571 Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 1927 American English
11650 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11660 Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009 American English
11939 O'Neill, Son and Artist Louis Sheaffer 1973 American English
11939 Grant William S. McFeely 1981 American English
12324 The Journals Of John Cheever John Cheever 1991 American English
12440 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
12832 Little Altars Everywhere Rebecca Wells 1992 American English
13359 Night Shift Maritta Wolff 1942 American English
13599 Alabama Song Gilles Leroy 2007 French French
13803 The Drunkard Liu Yichang 1963 Chinese Chinese
13817 As God Commands Niccolò Ammaniti 2006 Italian Italian
13986 The Disenchanted Budd Schulberg 1950 American English
14068 Will You Please be Quiet, Please? Raymond Carver 1976 American English
14230 Fat City Leonard Gardner 1969 American English
14344 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Roddy Doyle 1996 Irish English
14410 Dylan Thomas In America John Malcolm Brinnin 1955 American English
14896 Maggie Stephen Crane 1893 American English
14896 The Harp In The South Ruth Park 1948 Australian English
14931 Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck 1935 American English
14983 A Drinking Life Pete Hamill 1994 American English
14983 Complete Stories Dorothy Parker 1995 American English
14983 The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Sherman Alexie 1993 American English
15608 The New Centurions Joseph Wambaugh 1970 American English
15678 The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills Charles Bukowski American English
15705 Early Plays Eugene O'Neill 1932 American English
15897 Creatures that Once Were Men Maxim Gorky 1905 Russian Russian
15897 From The Terrace John O'Hara 1958 American English
16653 Factotum Charles Bukowski 1975 American English
17117 The Broken Cord Michael Dorris 1989 American English
17117 The Ice Storm Rick Moody 1994 American English
17117 A Feast of Snakes Harry Crews 1976 American English
17117 Broken Glass Alain Mabanckou 2005 Congolese French
17117 What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted? Alan Duff 1996 New Zealander English
17117 The Woman In The Window A. J. Finn 2018 American English