Digital Newcomer Packet

Starter Pamphlets

• 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.

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• How It Works How the program works.

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• 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.

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• A Newcomer Asks Gives straightforward, brief answers on 15 points that once puzzled many of us.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Books

• Big Book Available for purchases in print, audio, eBook, and PDF format. This is our program.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Other Online Literature & Resources

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA.org) The main A.A. website.

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• A.A. Online Intergroup A list of online meetings from around the world.

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• Silkworth.net A website full of writings by Bill W.

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• A.A. Grapevine The A.A. meeting in print.

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• A.A. Meeting Guide App Meeting Guide is a free meeting finder app for iOS and Android that provides meeting information.

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• A Brief Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous In simple language, it describes our program and offers general information on A.A.

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• A.A. at a Glance Flyer condensing facts on the Fellowship.

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• A.A. for the Black and African American Alcoholic Personal stories of finding sobriety and a new way of life in Alcoholics Anonymous.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.