Social Work/Human Service Books
1. 
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud: Relapse and the Symptoms of Sobriety
by:
Scott Stevens
4.20 avg rating β 173 ratings 
3. 
This Childhood of Mine: A Memoir of My Last Summer with My Mentally Ill Mother and Alcoholic Father 4.21 avg rating β 34 ratings
7. 
Opiate Addiction - The Painkiller Addiction Epidemic, Heroin Addiction and the Way Out
by:
Taite Adams
3.95 avg rating β 128 ratings 
9. 
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating β 90,418 ratings
10. 
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
by:
Elyn R. Saks
4.32 avg rating β 22,257 ratings 
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Beginnings, Middles, & Ends: Sideways Stories on the Art & Soul of Social Work
by:
Ogden W. Rogers
4.03 avg rating β 78 ratings 
14. 
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States 4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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No Matter What: An Adoptive Family's Story of Hope, Love and Healing
by:
Sally Donovan
4.57 avg rating β 559 ratings 26. 
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
by:
Ann Fessler
4.24 avg rating β 10,667 ratings 27. 
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption 3.59 avg rating β 2,953 ratings
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
by:
Chris Thrall
3.60 avg rating β 771 ratings 29. 
Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships
by:
Clare Huntington
4.44 avg rating β 16 ratings 
29. 
Social Work for Fun and Profit: Social Work Satire 1982 - 1992
by:
Richard Schwindt
4.57 avg rating β 7 ratings 
29. 
The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction
by:
Sandra Swenson
4.52 avg rating β 392 ratings 29. 
A Dog's Tail: Alice's hindsight of alcohol abuse in her family
by:
Jamie A Landsman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
29. 
Critters Cry Too: A Story of Addiction
by:
Anthony Curcio
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15 ratings 29. 
Your Patient Safety Survival Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Others from Medical Errors really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 20 ratings
29. 
Transforming Stigma: How to Become a Mental Wellness Superhero
by:
Mike Veny
4.18 avg rating β 55 ratings 
29. 
I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
by:
Jeremy K Everett
4.14 avg rating β 116 ratings 
29. 
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Illness
by:
Ian Tinny
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings 29. 
Paris Talks: Addresses Given by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1911
by:
Abdu'l-BahΓ‘
4.82 avg rating β 300 ratings 29. 
Restore your Dreamland : 17 stories on the mysteries, wonders and science of sleep
by:
Yasser Negm
4.80 avg rating β 10 ratings 
29. 
Fancy Prison: Calling BS on the Child Welfare Industry
by:
Tina Fumo-Martin
4.27 avg rating β 26 ratings 
29. 
Fostered: One Womanβs Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care 4.43 avg rating β 1,758 ratings
29. 
What's Love Got to Do With It?: A Critical Look at American Charity
by:
David Wagner
3.71 avg rating β 35 ratings 29. 
Me, Myself & My Amygdala: A Mindfulness Guide to Sobriety & Well-Being
by:
Brian Ackerman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 29. 
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating β 4,458 ratings 
59. 
Do I Know You?: A Family's Journey Through Aging and Alzheimer's
by:
Bette Maskowitz
3.68 avg rating β 50 ratings 59. 
The First-ever Baligham Village Mobile Health Fair
by:
Margaret Galabe
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
59. 
If Not Now, When?: Living the Baby Boomer Adventure
by:
Esther Rantzen
4.50 avg rating β 10 ratings 
59. 
Covidians & Covidology: Facts, common sense and science you can understand
by:
Yasser Negm
4.50 avg rating β 10 ratings 59. 
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
by:
Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating β 44,187 ratings 67. 
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness
by:
Lori Schiller
4.09 avg rating β 9,619 ratings 
67. 
Real World Clinical Social Work: Find Your Voice and Find Your Way 4.37 avg rating β 94 ratings
67. 
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
by:
Janet Mock
4.30 avg rating β 16,467 ratings 
67. 
Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
by:
Si Kahn
3.77 avg rating β 145 ratings 75. 
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery
by:
Abby Sher
3.88 avg rating β 342 ratings 
75. 
The A-to-Z Self-Care Handbook for Social Workers and Other Helping Professionals 4.17 avg rating β 100 ratings
75. 
Nobodyβs Son: All Alex ever wanted was a family of his own
by:
Cathy Glass
4.49 avg rating β 2,834 ratings 
75. 
The Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy
by:
Si Kahn
3.44 avg rating β 34 ratings 
82. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating β 57,731 ratings 82. 
82. 
The Drum Major Instinct: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Theory of Political Service (The Morehouse College King Collection Series on Civil and Human Rights)
by:
Justin Rose
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.98 avg rating β 336,745 ratings 87. 
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
by:
Donald Cohen
4.37 avg rating β 499 ratings 92. 
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by:
David Sheff
4.17 avg rating β 102,392 ratings 
92. 
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
by:
Jack Schneider
4.08 avg rating β 671 ratings 
96. 
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
by:
Kristine Barnett
4.09 avg rating β 7,768 ratings 
96. 
In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victimsβ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety
by:
Lenore Anderson
4.44 avg rating β 41 ratings 