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
1302 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
1708 The Clown Heinrich Böll 1963 German German
1774 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
2068 How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman 1994 Scottish English
2157 The Green Man Kingsley Amis 1969 British English
2261 Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara 1934 American English
2262 The Iceman Cometh Eugene O'Neill 1946 American English
2303 Ironweed William Kennedy 1983 American English
2395 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 2005 American English
2633 AA Big Book Bill W 1939 American English
2670 This Boy's Life Tobias Wolff 1989 American English
2803 The Old Devils Kingsley Amis 1986 British English
2959 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
3872 The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald 1922 American English
4140 The Liars' Club Mary Karr 1995 American English
4271 Eight Million Ways To Die Lawrence Block 1982 American English
4540 Affliction Russell Banks 1989 American English
4568 No Great Mischief Alistair MacLeod 1999 Canadian English
4594 Ten North Frederick John O'Hara 1955 American English
4654 True West Sam Shepard 1980 American English
5275 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams 1955 American English
5329 Pushkin Hills Sergei Dovlatov 1983 Russian Russian
5335 Jernigan David Gates 1991 American English
5448 The Moscoviad Yuri Andrukhovych 1993 Ukrainian Ukrainian
5719 Anatomy Of A Murder Robert Traver 1958 American English
5988 Ham On Rye Charles Bukowski 1982 American English
6472 The Sound Of My Voice Ron Butlin 1987 British English
6629 No Man's Land Harold Pinter 1975 British English
6695 The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake Breece D'J Pancake 1983 American English
6731 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
7022 The Girl On The Train Paula Hawkins 2015 British English
7215 The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture Janet Campbell Hale 1985 American English
7616 Dirty Havana Trilogy Pedro Juan Gutierrez 1998 Cuban Spanish
7757 Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart 2020 Scottish English
7819 Sister Gin June Arnold 1975 American English
7830 Purple America Rick Moody 1997 American English
8161 The Choirboys Joseph Wambaugh 1975 American English
8473 Babylon Revisited And Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald 1960 American English
8818 Man Gone Down Michael Thomas 2007 American English
8882 I'll Go To Bed At Noon Gerard Woodward 2004 British English
9262 Lit Mary Karr 2009 American English
9322 Red Lights Georges Simenon 1953 Belgian French
9832 Country Girl Edna O'Brien 2012 Irish English
9860 Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky Patrick Hamilton 1935 British English
9911 Women Charles Bukowski 1978 American English
9958 Big Girl, Small Town Michelle Gallen 2020 Irish English
10105 A Fan's Notes Frederick Exley 1968 American English
10736 Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, And General Tales Of Ordinary Madness Charles Bukowski 1972 American English
10789 Jackson Pollock Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith 1989 American English
10856 The Albany Cycle William Kennedy 1983 American English
11277 A Monkey In Winter Antoine Blondin 1959 French French
11363 The Illustrated Mum Jacqueline Wilson 1999 British English
11407 Big Sur Jack Kerouac 1962 American English
11508 Collected Poems John Berryman 1989 American English
11573 Men Without Women Ernest Hemingway 1927 American English
11653 All Of Us Raymond Carver 1996 American English
11663 Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009 American English
11941 O'Neill, Son and Artist Louis Sheaffer 1973 American English
11941 Grant William S. McFeely 1981 American English
12326 The Journals Of John Cheever John Cheever 1991 American English
12441 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 1962 American English
12834 Little Altars Everywhere Rebecca Wells 1992 American English
13362 Night Shift Maritta Wolff 1942 American English
13600 Alabama Song Gilles Leroy 2007 French French
13804 The Drunkard Liu Yichang 1963 Chinese Chinese
13818 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
14345 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Roddy Doyle 1996 Irish English
14411 Dylan Thomas In America John Malcolm Brinnin 1955 American English
14899 Maggie Stephen Crane 1893 American English
14899 The Harp In The South Ruth Park 1948 Australian English
14932 Tortilla Flat John Steinbeck 1935 American English
14985 A Drinking Life Pete Hamill 1994 American English
14985 Complete Stories Dorothy Parker 1995 American English
14985 The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Sherman Alexie 1993 American English
15616 The New Centurions Joseph Wambaugh 1970 American English
15686 The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills Charles Bukowski American English
15713 Early Plays Eugene O'Neill 1932 American English
15916 Creatures that Once Were Men Maxim Gorky 1905 Russian Russian
15916 From The Terrace John O'Hara 1958 American English
16687 Factotum Charles Bukowski 1975 American English
17163 The Broken Cord Michael Dorris 1989 American English
17163 The Ice Storm Rick Moody 1994 American English
17163 A Feast of Snakes Harry Crews 1976 American English
17163 Broken Glass Alain Mabanckou 2005 Congolese French
17163 What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted? Alan Duff 1996 New Zealander English
17163 The Woman In The Window A. J. Finn 2018 American English