Alcoholics Anonymous, also known as the “Big Book,” presents the A.A. program for recovery from alcoholism.

This is the great news this book carries to those who suffer from alcoholism. An illness of this sort—and we have come to believe it an illness—involves those about us in a way no other …

Read The Big Book online (PDF) of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is the Fourth Edition of the Big Book, the basic text for Alcoholics Anonymous.

In that brief space, Alcoholics Anonymous has mushroomed into nearly 6,000 groups whose membership is far above 150,000 recovered alcoholics. Groups are to be found in each of the …

Jan 24, 1971 · This is the fourth edition of the book “Alcoholics Anonymous.” The first edition appeared in April 1939, and in the following sixteen years, more than 300,000 copies went into …

When writing or speaking publicly about alcoholism, we urge each of our Fellowship to omit his personal name, designating himself instead as “a member of Alcoholics Anonymous.” Very …

This is a freely downloadable version of the basic text of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. The program and this download site are supported through the voluntary contributions of those …

Formats in which the Big Book can be read: To read a PDF version of the Fourth Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous click here. To listen to an audio version, click here. Print version from …

All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A. members’ fond nickname for this volume) have had the same purpose: to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous …

Known as the "Big Book," the basic text of Alcoholics Anonymous has helped millions of people recover from alcoholism since the first edition appeared in 1939.