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Most Big Book Step Study groups use this 15-week reading schedule, but each group is autonomous. 

1 “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol...” The Doctor's Opinion pp. xxv-xxxii (4th ed)  Week 1

1 “...that our lives had become unmanageable.” Chapter 3: More About Alcoholism pp 30-43 Week 2

2 “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Chapter 2: There is A Solution pp 17–29; and Appendix II: Spiritual Experience pp 567–568 (4th ed) Week 3

2 “Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.”
Chapter 4: We Agnostics pp. 44-57 Week 4

3 “Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.”
Chapter 5: How It Works pp.58-64 Week 5

4 “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” —Resentment
Chapter 5: How It Works pp.64-67 Week 6

4 “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” —Fear Chapter 5: How
It Works pp.67-68 Week 7

4 “Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.” —Sex Conduct
Chapter 5: How It Works pp.68-71 Week 8

5 “Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.”
Chapter 6: Into Action pp. 72-75 Week 9

6&7 “Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.” “Humbly asked
Him to remove our shortcomings.” Chapter 6: Into Action pp. 76 Week 10

8&9 “Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.”
“Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them
or others.” Chapter 6: Into Action pp. 76-84 Week 11

10 “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”
Chapter 6: Into Action pp. 84-85 Week 12

11 “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God
as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”
Chapter 6: Into Action pp. 85-88 Week 13

12 “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics...”
Chapter 7: Working with Others pp. 89-96 Week 14

12 “...and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
Chapter 7: Working with Others pp. 96-103 Week 15