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AA Big Book

The Big Book, always with you.

Read and listen to the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, wherever you are. The first 164 pages are here in full, free to read, with highlights, notes, bookmarks, search, and audio that follows the words.

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The AA Big Book app home screen: "The Big Book, always with you", with Continue reading
The audio player, with the words of How It Works highlighted as they are read
The Quotes tab: a line from the book, every hour
What's inside

Made for the way you recover.

Read it, listen to it, highlight it and keep your notes beside the page.

1

The first 164 pages, set like the book

With the Preface, the Forewords and The Doctor's Opinion, keeping the printed page numbers. Open the app and carry on from where you stopped.

2

Every chapter, read aloud

More than five hours of audio. The words follow the reading, and you can tap any sentence to hear it from there.

3

Highlights, notes and bookmarks

Tap a sentence to highlight it, write a note on it, bookmark, pin or share it. Notes stay beside the sentence they belong to.

4

Search the whole book

Search the Big Book and the literature, and open the book at the very sentence you found.

5

A line from the book, every hour

Choose the hours that suit you and a Big Book quote arrives. Pin the ones that speak to you.

6

Prayers, in light or dark

Thirteen prayers, including the Serenity Prayer and the Third, Seventh and Eleventh Step prayers, in the theme and text size that suit your eyes.

Your next twenty‑four hours start here.

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