Reddit mentions of The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter

BOOKS ABOUT THE DISORDER, AND TO HELP YOU DEAL WITH YOUR HOARDER

1. Children of Hoarders: How to Minimize Conflict, Reduce the Clutter, and Improve Your Relationship by Dr. Fugen Neziroglu. The book explores strategies for communicating with hoarder parents, and outlines practical intervention skills. It also shows readers how to let go of the personal shame and guilt associated with being the child of a hoarder.
   
2. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring For Yourself, by Melody Beatty. From /u/hubbyofahoarder: “[This book] will be a revelation to you; when you read it, you'll feel the cold slap of recognition of your own behaviors. Co-dependence is often thought of from a substance abuse perspective, but in my anecdotal experience, and that of others, many SO's of hoarders are co-dependents.”
   
3. Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring by Michael A. Tompkins. This is an excellent book, written specifically for the spouse, family, and/or loved ones on how to deal with the hoarder in your life who won't accept that he's a hoarder. It's not a book on "organizing tips" or anything for people who are merely disorganized. This book actually gives you a plan for communicating with your hoarder, identifying issues, working on your relationship with your hoarder, and in general coaxing your hoarder to a healthier way of doing things. It advocates a harm reduction approach, in order to get the hoarder to cooperate.
   
4. Before the world heard of "hoarders", Sandra Felton was writing about "messies". A reformed hoarder herself, she wrote Messie No More: Understanding and Overcoming the Roadblocks to Being Organized, which (among other things) discusses how most organizational methods don't work for messies, and give practical advice on what can work for you, and how to implement it. Her entire series of books are gold for recovering hoarders.
   
5. Scaling Down : Living Large in a Smaller Space by Judi Culbertson. This book gets inside the mind of the reader who wants to do something about all the stuff they have, but worry they will give away something they may need later, something that was a gift from someone, something that reminds them of something good long ago, or a variety of other mind games 'stuff' evokes. The author also tackles the prevention issue so that the reader doesn't get back into the mess they just got out of. Best of all, the author does all this without making the reader feel like a loser or stupid for becoming a pack rat, hoarder, or procrastinator. Has step-by-step guides and is written specifically for the older reader (but can be helpful to anyone of any age).
   
6. You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?! by Kate Kelly, et. al.. ADD can be a factor in compulsive hoarding! Written by adults with ADD for adults with ADD, the is arguably one of the best books about ADD ever written.
   
7. If your hoarder is ready to admit he's a hoarder, Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding by Skeketee, Tolin, and Frost is the book for them. It includes strategies for changing unhelpful beliefs about one's possessions, and behavioral experiments to reduce one's anxiety and fear of discarding. You can see a video presentation of some of the research in the book at this link.
   
8. Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why You Save and How You Can Stop is another book written specifically for the self-admitted hoarder looking for where to start. The psychiatrist authors offer a series of skill-building exercises to help a hoarder identify why they hoard, so they can eventually clean.
   
9. The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life by Dr. Robin Zasio. Zasio shares psychological and practical advice for de-cluttering and organizing, including how to tame the emotional pull of acquiring things, getting a handle on clutter, and creating an organizational system that reduces stress and anxiety.
   
10. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, by Skeketee and Frost, is an invaluable book to help family and friends understand the mindsets of people who hoard.
    
11. The Hoarding Handbook: A Guide for Human Service Professionals. If you're a social services professional who has reason to deal with hoarders, or a family member looking to understand the public agencies to get involved, this book is for you. Chapters discuss service delivery systems, assessment of severity and risks to self & others, housing, public health, protective services, the legal system, and professional organizers.
    
12. The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter, by Matt Paxton and Phaedra Hise. Paxton appears on the t.v. show Hoarders, and gives advice on guiding hoarders through the clean-up process.
    
13. The Oxford Handbook of Hoarding and Acquiring is the first volume to detail the empirical research on hoarding. A resource for practitioners and researchers, the summaries of research and clinical interventions contained here clarify the emotional and behavioral features, diagnostic challenges, and nature of the treatment interventions for this new disorder.
    
    There's a ton more books but the above books we can definitely recommend.