AA Information and Literature

AA Information Library

Use these organized guides to understand A.A., its program, literature, language, participation, and boundaries. Meeting search tools remain in AA Meetings, history remains in AA History, and service administration remains in AA Groups and Administration.

Getting Started with AA

Clear starting points for newcomers and anyone trying to understand how meetings, sponsorship, groups, and participation work.

Types of Meetings

Understand the published attendance, access, format, audience, accessibility, environment, language, service, administration, and status distinctions used for AA meetings.

AA Program and Core Principles

The central recovery, unity, and service principles that define A.A. and guide its groups and service structure.

Promises of AA

An organized guide to promise language found throughout A.A. literature, including the well-known Ninth Step Promises.

AA Readings, Prayers and Statements

Common material heard in meetings, with careful distinctions between official A.A. sources, group custom, and material used in A.A. but created elsewhere.