Heres the collection of top ten novels in which Alchohal plays a starring role:
Devdas: 1917 by Sarat Chandra ChattopadhyaTragic love story of a boy named Devdas. Boy meets girl, looses her then boy meets Bottle. Boy gts another girl but goes after first love. Drops down to death drunk.
Appointment in Sammara: 1931 by John O'HaraThe decline and fall of a cocktail tossing Cadillac dealer in Gibbsville, Pennesylvania
Hangover Square: 1941 by Patrick Hamilton
Borderline alchoolic with a spoilt personality fight fascism in 1930's Britain, only to bring down his own defeat.
The Lost Weekend: 1944 by Charles JacksonFialed writer on a 5 day bender in the streets on 1930's Manhatten, according to Amis, "The Best fictional account of alcholism I have read".
Under The Volcano: 1947 by Mlcom LowryThe last day in the life of an alcholic ex-counsul in Mexico. Should've heeded Amis' words on mescal: "The nastiest drink I've ever drunk in my life"
The Alcoholics: 1953 by Jim ThompsonRaw thriller in which a doctor treating alcholism presides over a rouge's gallery of twisted nurses and patients.
A Fan's Notes: 1968 by Frederick Exley
Thinly disguised memoir of a promosing athelte who veers off track, changing from a drifter to DRUNKARD.
The Power And The Glory: 1969 by Grahan GreeneA 'Whisky priest' stumbles across mexico hoping for salvation, aided by some unholu sririt.
Post Office: 1971 by Charles BukowskiMisanthropic postman with an eye for woman and horse racing stay alive so that he can stay DRUNK
Paradise: 2004 by A L Kennedy
Alcoholic woman meets alcoholic dentist. Enough to set your teeths on edge.
