Cult Classics

Cult classics are works of fiction that are extremely popular with a select audience but which may or may not have been successful at the time of the works' original publications. ...more

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Our Last Resort
Return to Sender (Walt Longmire, #21)
Stacken
The Last Housewife
Uncultured: A Memoir
Black Sheep
None Left to Tell
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
The Last Session
If You Lie
An Honest Lie
Just Like Mother
The Ascent
Death in the Downline
The Girls
It Ain't Me, Babe (Hades Hangmen, #1)
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Fight Club
Becoming Calder (Acadia Duology, #1)
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Heart Recaptured (Hades Hangmen, #2)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Black Sheep
Just Like Mother
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
The Last Housewife
The Eclipse Ritual
No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. BrodieWho Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? by Wayne L. CowdreyStanding For Something More by Lyndon LambornOut of Mormonism by Judy RobertsonSecret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake
Ex-MORmON
45 books — 23 voters

Cult Girls by Natalie GrandCult Child by Vennie KocsisLucky by Scott NelsonAll Who Believed by Tamara MathieuA Slice of Orange by Nicola Ranson
Cult Survivors
50 books — 60 voters

Trainspotting by Irvine WelshAstronomicon minorem - DMT, Cthulhu and You by Khurt KhaveSex and Sushi by Tassa DesaladaDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesFight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Amazing badass contemporary
8 books — 6 voters
The 19th Wife by David EbershoffThe Chosen One by Carol Lynch WilliamsKeep Sweet by Michele Domínguez GreeneSister Wife by Shelley HrdlitschkaHidden Wives by Claire Avery
Polygamist Cults
30 books — 74 voters


Robert Jay Lifton
“ In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved. ”
― Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China

Bessel van der Kolk
“ Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas. Well-functioning people are able to accept individual differences and acknowledge the hu ...more ”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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