Suggested Reading Gen 1

Compulsive Collectors/Hoarding/Chronic Disorganization

E. L. Doctorow, Homer and Langley: A Novel Random House, 2010

Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010

David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost, and Gail Steketee, Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and HoardingOxford University Press, 2007

Judith Kolberg, Conquering Chronic Disorganization, Squall Press, Inc., 1999 

Michael Tompkins and Tamara Hartl, Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring New Harbinger Publications, 2009

Kate Varness, ed., The ICD Guide to Challenging Disorganization Institute for Challenging Disorganization, 2012

Adult Children/Senior Caregivers

Dorothy Breininger, Lynn Benson,
Debby S. Bitticks
The Senior Organizer: Personal, Medical, Legal, Financial HCI, 2006

Vickie Dellaquila, Don’t Toss My Memories in the Trash-A Step-by-Step Guide to Helping Seniors Downsize, Organize, and Move. Mountain Publishing, 2007

Viki Kind, The Caregiver’s Path To Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices For Those Who Can’t Greenleaf Book Group, 2010

Organizing for Creative Type (when mainstream strategies won’t work!)

Dorothy Lehmkuhl and Dolores Cotter Lamping, Organizing for the Creative Person, Three Rivers Press, 1993

Lanna Nakone, M.A. Organizing for your Brain Type, St. Martin’s Press 2005.

Lee Silber, Time Management for the Creative Person, Three Rivers Press, 1998.

General Organizing Principles

Barry Izsak, Organize Your Garage in No Time, Que Publishing, 2005

Porter Knight, Organized to Last: 5 Simple Steps to Staying Organized, Discover Writing Press, 2005

Julie Morgenstern, Organizing From the Inside Out, Henry Holt and Company, 2004

Julie Morgenstern, Time Management From the Inside Out, Henry Holt and Company, 2000

Marilyn Paul, It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys, Penguin Compass, 2004

Donna Smallin, Organizing Plain and Simple, Storey Publishing, 2002

Kathy Waddill, The Organizing Sourcebook: Nine Strategies for Simplifying Your Life, 2001

Peter Walsh, Love What You Have, Have What You Need, Be Happier With Less, Simon and Schuster, 2010

Peter Walsh, It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff, Simon and Schuster, 2007

Attention Deficit Disorder

Thomas E. Brown, Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults Yale University Press, 2005

Laurie Dupar, 365 Ways to Success with ADHD Laurie Dupar, Pub., 2011

Edward Hallowell and John Ratey, Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood to Adulthood Simon and Shuster, 199407

Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau, ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize your Life Bruner-Routledge, 2002

Roland Rotz and Sarah D. Wright, Fidget to Focus: Outwit Your Boredom – Sensory Strategies for Living with ADD iUniverse Books, 2005

Sari Solden, Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace your Difference and Transform your Life Underwood Books, 2005

Ari Tuckman, More Attention, Less Deficit: Success Strategies for Adults with ADHD Specialty Press, Inc., 2009

Kate Varness, ed., The ICD Guide to Challenging Disorganization Institute for Challenging Disorganization, 2012