Both EXCELLENT books- but if you have to start out by picking one, could I recommend Distraction? Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction are books written by doctors who themselves have ADD - they write in lay terms, yet manage to be thorough, occasionally humorous, and all I can say is that unless their conditions are managed REALLY well, they must have had the editor help with the layout - because it makes so much beautiful sense. When organization is such a problem for most of us ADDers, I admire a nice job with that when I see it. Hallowell and Ratey also make the books very readable- meaning, not a chore to get through them- they stay very much in touch with how ADD affects real life, real people, every day- it's not an ivory tower too-clinical approach.