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BELOW are resources and links that you might find useful as you begin your journey in recovery and AA.
- Frequently Asked Questions About A.A. - Answers the questions most frequently asked about A.A. by alcoholics seeking help, as well as by their families and friends. | PDF Download
- How It Works - How the program works. | PDF Download
- Is A.A. for You? - Symptoms of alcoholism are summed up in 12 questions most A.A.s had to answer to identify themselves as alcoholics. | PDF Download
- Newcomer Asks - Gives straightforward, brief answers on 15 points that once puzzled many of us. | PDF Download
- Questions and Answers on Sponsorship - Uses shared A.A. experience to answer 34 questions likely to be asked by persons seeking sponsors, persons wanting to be sponsors, and groups planning sponsorship activity. | PDF Download
- Where Do I Go From Here? - For people leaving treatment facilities, a single-sheet flyer tells of continuing help offered by "outside" A.A.s. | PDF Download
BOOKS
- Big Book - Available for purchases in print, audio, eBook, and PDF format. This is our program.
- Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions - Available for purchases in print, audio, eBook, and PDF format. Bill W.'s 24 essays on the Steps and the Traditions discuss the principles of individual recovery and group unity.
- Daily Reflections - Available online as well as printed in book format if you would prefer to have a printed copy. This is a short quote from our literature along with a reflection written by a member of our fellowship.
Other Online Literature & Resources
- Alcoholics Anonymous (AA.org) - The main A.A. website.
- A.A. Online Intergroup - A list of online meetings from around the world.
- Silkworth.net - A website full of writings by Bill W.
- A.A. Grapevine - The A.A. meeting in print.
- A.A. Meeting Guide App - Meeting Guide is a free meeting finder app for iOS and Android that provides meeting information - direct Android & iOS download.
- Pamphlets (for all Pamphlets linked below, click on the image to load the PDF)
- A Brief Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous - In simple language, it describes our program and offers general information on A.A. | PDF Download
- A.A. at a Glance - Flyer condensing facts on the Fellowship. | PDF Download
- A.A. for the Black and African American Alcoholic - Personal stories of finding sobriety and a new way of life in Alcoholics Anonymous. | PDF Download
- Information on Alcoholics Anonymous - This information is both for people who may have a drinking problem and for those in contact with people who have, or are suspected of having, a problem. | PDF Download
- LGBTQ Alcoholics in A.A. - Excerpts from the experience, strength and hope of sober LGBTQ alcoholics point out that the tie that binds us all together is freedom from alcohol. | PDF Download
A special thank you to the Love & Service group in Pleasant Hill, CA for compiling a majority of these resources. They can be reached here at this link.