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​Updated Most Recently on December 11, 2023

Look for these titles at your local library, local book shops or online booksellers. As I explore other works or books are recommended to me, I will add to this list. Although I have read many of these, I am not endorsing or suggesting that these works fully represent the field. Over time, I will add a short blurb from the author or publishing house about each. Also, please know that I do not receive any compensation from your purchases and am in no way obligated to the authors or publishers.

ADHD in General

• ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction from Childhood through Adulthood by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey 
• Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder by Edward Hallowell and John Ratey
• Permission to Proceed by David Giwerc
• Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate
• The ADHD Life: ADHD Explained... (Or, That's Why I Do That) by Alex Hey (published 2023)
  • To have ADHD can be an isolating experience, but this book brings understanding and compassion. Learning what ADHD is and is not is an important aspect of managing one's ADHD. Author and ADHD coach Alex R. Hey, PCAC describes life with ADHD in a unique way, and those descriptions are compiled in this book.
• Your Brain’s Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD by Tamara Rosier (published 2021)
  • In Your Brain's Not Broken, Dr. Tamara Rosier explains how ADHD affects every aspect of your life. You'll finally understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do. Dr. Rosier applies her years of coaching others to offer you the critical practical tools that can dramatically improve your life and relationships.
    

ADHD and Adults

• ADHD in Adults by Diane Shelby
• Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer's World by Thom Hartman et al
• Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg
• From Surviving ADHD to Thriving: Mindset Shifts for the ADHDer by Alex Hey (published 2023)
  • In From Surviving ADHD to Thriving: Mindset Shifts for the ADHDer, author and ADHD Coach Alex R. Hey, PCAC describes how to go from merely eking out a life with ADHD to thriving and living one's best life. Taken from his blog posts on ResetADHD.com and featuring a foreword by coach and social media influencer Ryan Mayer, this book provides a roadmap to a better life. If ADHD is holding you back and you desire a better life, this is the book for you.
    
• Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD by Jesse Anderson (published 2023)
  • Written by an adult with ADHD for adults with ADHD, this empowering book provides the compassionate understanding and practical strategies you need to stop struggling and start thriving. Jesse J. Anderson draws from his personal journey of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult to offer encouragement, motivation, and strategies tailored for ADHD brains.

ADHD and Adult Skills Building

• Activate Your ADHD Potential: A 12-Step Journey from Chaos to Confidence for Adults With ADHD by Brooke Schnittman (published 2023)
  • In this book and workbook Brooke Schnittman, MA, BCC, PCC uses the strategies from Coaching With Brooke’s signature twelve-step program, 3C Activation© to empower adults with ADHD who are beyond ready to step into a new paradigm of living, find order in the chaos of their ADHD life, and transform themselves so they can be more productive, confident, and thrive. Brooke lays out an organized and thorough plan for adults with ADHD to calm the chaos in their ADHD brain, become more confident, and activate their ADHD potential.
• ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life by Judith Kolberg at al.
• ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to Thriving (Mostly) with ADHD by Penn Holderness, Kim Holderness, and Edward Hallowell (published 2024)
  • You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the way your brain is wired, you can feel like you’re failing at life. But you are not failing. You are awesome.​ Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to reboot how we think about the unfortunately named "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder." As always, they are doing it by looking in the mirror, because they don't just study ADHD; they live it. Penn was in college when he was diagnosed with ADHD, although the signs of having a brain that worked just a little bit differently had been there since he was a kid. Rather than view the diagnosis as a curse or give in to feelings of inadequacy or failure, he took a different approach, one that he wants to share with fellow ADHDers and the people who care about them. Drawing on their often-hilarious insights and the expertise of doctors, researchers, and specialists; Kim and Penn provide fun, easy-to-digest advice and explanations
• ADHD Refocused: Bringing Clarity to the Chaos by David Sitt, PsD (published 2023)
  • Dr. Sitt presents practical tools and reliable hacks to help readers increase their probabilities of success in fighting procrastination, disorganization, and inattention. Even those who feel their focus is diluted by technology will find value here, as Dr. Sitt addresses the similarly life-disrupting effects of what he calls Techno-ADD.
• Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to ADHD by Jesse Anderson (published 2023)
  • Extra Focus is the empowering guide to embracing your ADHD brain and thriving on your own terms. With practical tips for motivation, focus, organization, and emotional regulation tailored to the ADHD brain, it helps neurodiverse adults learn to stop struggling and start succeeding.
    
• How to Get Stuff Done When You Have ADHD by Michelle White (published 2020)
• How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by K.C. Davis
• More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD by Dr. Ari Tuchman (published 2009)
  • This is the only book on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) written in a structure that caters to the tendency for adults with ADHD to jump around. This essential guidebook begins by describing how the ADHD brain processes information and how that leads to typical challenges that people with ADHD experience, as well as why certain strategies are effective and others aren't. This lays the foundation for everything that follows, from getting diagnosed to an overview of the research of how ADHD affects people's lives. A thorough explanation of standard treatment options-including medication, therapy, and coaching-as well as alternative treatments, helps guide adults with ADHD to get the most from their healthcare providers.
• Order from Chaos: The Everyday Grind of Staying Organized with Adult ADHD by Jaclyn Paul
• Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD by Susan C. Pinsky
• Self-Care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress and Prioritize You by Sasha Hamdami
• The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain’s Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
• Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning by Phil Boissiere

ADHD and Children/Teens/Parenting

• ​ADHD: Raising the Explosive Child by Joanna Brain
• Boy Without Instructions: Surviving the Learning Curve of Parenting a Child with ADHD by Penny Williams (published 2014)
• ​Breakthroughs in Parenting Children with ADHD While Reducing Stress by Tony J. Bell
• ​Easy to Love but Hard to Raise by Kay Marner  (Author), Adrienne Ehlert Bashista  (Author), Edward Hallowell  (Foreword), Mary Greene  (Contributor)
• Falling through the Ceiling: Our ADHD Family Memoir by Audrey R. Jones and Larry A. Jones, MD (published 2018)
  • These stories offer the real-deal reality of living with a house full of ADHD, including the ups, downs and chaos of what happened and the consequences of such. The authors, a married couple of 45 years, offer experience, practical insight and what they learned from counselors, research and their own mistakes to assist people coping with children and adults who are affected by ADHD.
• How Children Thrive: The Practical Science of Raising Independent, Resilient, and Happy Kids by Dr. Mark Berlin (published 
  • In How Children Thrive, developmental pediatrician and parent Dr. Mark Bertin provides a positive, simple, and empowering approach for raising children of all ages. Bringing together mindfulness, new science on brain development, and the messy reality of being a parent, Dr. Bertin has a created a breakthrough guide that will help children―and their parents―flourish.
• Mindful Parenting for ADHD: A Guide to Cultivating Calm, Reducing Stress, and Helping Children Thrive (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) by Dr. Mark Berlin and Dr. Ari Tuchman (published 2015)
  • In this book, a developmental pediatrician presents a proven-effective program for helping both parents and their child with ADHD stay cool and collected while remaining flexible, resilient, and mindful. Bertin addresses the various symptoms of ADHD using non-technical language and a user-friendly format.
• ​Mindfulness and Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD Build Executive Function Skills, Increase Motivation, and Improve Self-Confidence by Mark Bertin, Karen Bluth, and Russell Barkley (published 2021)
  • ​This unique guide will help teens develop the skills they need to strengthen their executive functioning, foster the self-compassion essential to overcoming self-criticism often caused by ADHD, and gain the confidence and resilience necessary to take control of their ADHD—and their lives.
• Raising Boys with ADHD by Mary Anne Richey and James Forgan (published 2012)
• Smart but Scattered Teens: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Teens Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare
• Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson and Richard Guare​
• Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child by Dr. Ned Hallowell and Dr. Peter Jensen (published 2010)
• The Organized Student: Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond by Donna Goldberg (published 2005)
• Understanding Children with ADHD by Alice Bliss
• What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life by Dr. Sharon Saline (published 2018)
  • This is not another book about children with ADHD that simply tells parents what to do and how to discipline.  Instead, this remarkable, intimate, and deeply-researched book focuses on the importance and effectiveness of being an empathetically aware communicator, and how working together creates lasting results. Finally, in one place, she gives parents new insights into the minds and feelings of their children with ADHD–and offers them a new, family-tested roadmap for reducing family stress and improving loving connections.
    
• Why Will No One Play with Me? The Play Better Plan to Help Children of All Ages Make Friends and Thrive by Caroline Maguire and Teresa Baker (published 2019)
  • In this groundbreaking book named one of the "Best ADHD Books of All Time" by BookAuthority, Maguire shares her decade-in-the-making protocol—The Play Better Plan—to help parents coach children of any background to connect with others and make friends. With compassion and ease, this program gives parents a tangible, easy-to-follow guide for helping kids develop the executive function and social skills they need to thrive.

ADHD and Relationships

• ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship by Dr. Ari Tuckman (published 2019)
  • his pioneering book explores the impact of ADHD on a couple’s sex life and relationship. It explains how a better sex life will benefit your relationship (and vice versa) and why that’s especially important for couples with one partner with ADHD. Written from the author’s unique perspective as both an expert in ADHD and a certified sex therapist, the book describes the many effects of ADHD on couples’ sex lives and happiness, covering areas such as negotiating sexual differences, performance problems, low desire, porn, making time for sex, infidelity, and more.
• ADHD & Us: A Couple's Guide to Loving and Living with Adult ADHD by Anita Robertson (published 2020)
  • ADHD & Us gives couples the tools and strategies they need to connect as well as overcome the unique challenges they face on the road to long-term happiness and satisfaction. Drawing from Anita Robertson’s years of practice counseling couples with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), this honest and straightforward guide helps couples better understand adult ADHD and how it affects relationships, while also providing the tools necessary for both partners to feel understood and respected.
• Different Planets: Understanding Your Neurodiverse Relationship by Lorna Hecker, PhD (published 2022)
  • Does it feel like you and your partner come from different planets? Does your partner see the world much differently than you do? Are you at a loss to figure out how to connect with them? You may be in a neurodiverse relationship... Neurodiversity relates to differences in how our brains work, leading to differences in how we perceive the world, communicate, and give and receive love. This includes people on the autism spectrum, with ADHD, learning disabilities, and other neurological or developmental issues. Someone who has a brain style that differs from the majority is considered “neurodivergent,” while someone who has the brain style that is similar to others is considered “neurotypical.” When these two brain styles pair up, miscommunication can occur, based on these differences. Neurotypical partners can get very frustrated with partners who just don’t “get it,” and may think their partners are being deliberately difficult or neglectful. Neurodivergent partners may feel like whatever they say gets misinterpreted, and communicating is a no-win situation for them and they shut down in response to pressures from their partners to connect. Inhabiting these different worlds can lead to conflict, frustration, and loneliness. This book can help you understand your neurodiverse relationship, begin to connect, and bring your “planets” into the same orbit as you learn how your neurodiverse relationship works and why.
    
• Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.? Stopping the Roller Coaster When Someone You Love Has Attention Deficit Disorder by Gina Pera (Author) Russell Barkley (Foreword) (published 2008)
• The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Marriage in Six Steps by Melissa Orlov 
• The ADHD Marriage Workbook: A User-Friendly Guide to Improving Your Relationship by Michael T Bell (published 2012)
• When an Adult You Love Has ADHD: Professional Advice for Parents, Partners, and Siblings  by Russell A. Barkley, PhD (published 2016)

ADHD and Women/Girls

• ADHD Girls to Women: Getting On the Radar by Lotta Borg Skoglund (published 2023)
  • ADHD girls and women often fall under the radar. Their lives impacted by a society that is largely disinterested in understanding ADHD outside of the male framework. No longer. This book connects the latest science on ADHD in women to the compelling lived experiences of girls and women with ADHD, weaving in their personal struggles and their breakthroughs, from childhood and the teen years through to motherhood, menopause and beyond. Family doctor, psychiatrist, and international ADHD expert Lotta Borg Skoglund combines years of experience in the treatment and assessment of ADHD with the powerful testimonies of the women she has encountered along the way, exploring issues such as hormonal changes, emotional regulation, organisation and concentration, relationships, work, and treatment. She provides valuable tips, strategies and insights as to how ADHD girls and women can achieve the self-understanding they need to live to their best potential.
    
• A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers by Sari Solden and Michelle Frank
• ​A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind - A Memoir by Rebecca Schiller et al
• Raising a Girl with ADHD by Allison K. Tyler 
• Understanding ADHD in Girls and Women by Joann Steer, Andrew Bilbow, Claire Berry, and Jess Brunet
• Women with ADHD: A Lifechanging Guide to Embrace the Hidden Struggles of Living with ADHD ​ by Roberta Sanders (published 2022)

ADHD and Other Topics

• “Wait Class…What Was I Saying?” Teaching With ADHD: Classroom Strategies for ADHD Learners​ by Michelle Winters (published 2023)
  • A book for ADHD learners BY an ADHD learner and teacher. "Wait Class...What Was Saying?" Teaching with ADHD: Classroom Strategies for ADHD Learners was created to help teachers understand ADHD and its impact on students, provide multiple possible classroom strategies for ADHD learners, provide an easy to use tool and resource for classroom teachers, and, hopefully, encourage less frustrating days with ADHD students.

Not necessarily about ADHD...

• Chatter: The Voice in Our Head and Why It Matters by Ethan Kross
• Making the SHiFT® True Stories of How People Affected by Chronic Disorganization Learn to Live a Deserving Life by Jen Casares (published 2023)
  • This book is a guide for professional organizers, mental health professionals, and anyone wishing to better understand the behaviors of people who live with chronic disorganization. Making the SHiFT® combines sage observations from hundreds of client interactions with adaptive organizing techniques. Through case studies and real-time exercises, readers will discover the enormous healing potential of the SHiFT® method.​
• ​Misnamed, Misdiagnosed, Misunderstood: Recognizing and Coping with NVLD (Nonverbal Learning Disorder) from Childhood through Adulthood by Linda Karanzalis (published 2022)
  • Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD or NVLD) is a learning disability characterized by poor visual, spatial, and organizational skills. As well as incredible difficulty processing nonverbal cues. The name “Non-Verbal Learning Disorder” suggests that those affected have trouble speaking. However, this is not the case with NVLDers usually having above-average intelligence and firm mastery of complex vocabulary and language. Linda Karanzalis shares her own experience as a child, teen, and adult battling undiagnosed NVLD. This book is a frank account of her struggles with academics, jobs, and relationships that sheds light on and will ring true for everyone affected by NVLD.
    
• The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don't Feel Like It by Dani Donovan (published 2022)
  • The Anti-Planner is an activity book specifically designed to help procrastinators:
    Try unique, entertaining ways of completing tasks
    Untangle emotions that make it hard to get sh*t done
    Smash through productivity roadblock
    300+ full-color pages (with over 100 activities)
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van Der Kolk
• Zen and the Art of Productivity: 27 Easy Ways to Have More Time, Earn More Money and Live Happier by Alan Brown (published 2017)
  • "We only have so much time in the day and there are plenty of resources to look into how to best leverage that time. Alan’s book breaks things down to practical actions you can take now, using what you already have at your disposal – the thing between your ears: your brain. Alan offers practical and actionable advice in these pages that will help you process and prioritize better than before." - Mike Vardy, productivity strategist and founder of Productivityist