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The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cult)
avg rating 3.51 — 245,112 ratings — published 2016
It Ain't Me, Babe (Hades Hangmen, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as cult)
avg rating 4.04 — 56,099 ratings — published 2014
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as cult)
avg rating 3.80 — 120,275 ratings — published 2021
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 59 times as cult)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,985 ratings — published 2015
Becoming Calder (Acadia Duology, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as cult)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,489 ratings — published 2014
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cult)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,929 ratings — published 2013
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as cult)
avg rating 4.18 — 648,261 ratings — published 1996
Heart Recaptured (Hades Hangmen, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as cult)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,568 ratings — published 2014
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cult)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,946 ratings — published 2003
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cult)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,817 ratings — published 2022
Souls Unfractured (Hades Hangmen, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as cult)
avg rating 4.41 — 28,215 ratings — published 2015
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as cult)
avg rating 3.58 — 37,493 ratings — published 2023
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as cult)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,924 ratings — published 2017
The Eclipse Ritual (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as cult)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,882 ratings — published 2024
The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as cult)
avg rating 3.95 — 575,766 ratings — published 2019
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as cult)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,162 ratings — published 2022
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as cult)
avg rating 3.69 — 64,374 ratings — published 2022
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as cult)
avg rating 4.00 — 775,895 ratings — published 1962
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as cult)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,889,052 ratings — published 2018
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as cult)
avg rating 3.50 — 16,139 ratings — published 2021
The Maiden (The Cloister, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as cult)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,836 ratings — published 2018
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cult)
avg rating 4.07 — 77,369 ratings — published 2015
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cult)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,230 ratings — published 2013
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as cult)
avg rating 3.80 — 367,157 ratings — published 1991
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as cult)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,739 ratings — published 1974
Goodbye Paradise (Hello Goodbye, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as cult)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,836 ratings — published 2015
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 36 times as cult)
avg rating 4.24 — 101,853 ratings — published 2024
Her Soul to Take (Souls Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as cult)
avg rating 4.03 — 155,711 ratings — published 2021
When She Returned (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as cult)
avg rating 3.97 — 133,811 ratings — published 2019
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cult)
avg rating 4.06 — 381,181 ratings — published 1971
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cult)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,081 ratings — published 2009
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as cult)
avg rating 4.31 — 67,578 ratings — published 2016
Deep Redemption (Hades Hangmen, #4)
by (shelved 34 times as cult)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,638 ratings — published 2016
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cult)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,526 ratings — published 2021
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cult)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,791 ratings — published 1951
After the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cult)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,445 ratings — published 2017
Damnable Grace (Hades Hangmen, #5)
by (shelved 31 times as cult)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,267 ratings — published 2017
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cult)
avg rating 3.71 — 15,672 ratings — published 2012
Finding Eden (Acadia Duology, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as cult)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,936 ratings — published 2014
The Unworthy (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cult)
avg rating 3.60 — 51,916 ratings — published 2023
A History of Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cult)
avg rating 3.91 — 67,705 ratings — published 2021
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cult)
avg rating 4.12 — 16,234 ratings — published 2017
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cult)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,698 ratings — published 2009
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cult)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,042 ratings — published 1997
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cult)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,985 ratings — published 1969
Our Share of Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cult)
avg rating 4.25 — 64,290 ratings — published 2019
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cult)
avg rating 4.29 — 193,466 ratings — published 2025
“That’s all religion is. Strategy.”
― The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
― The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
“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.”
― Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
― Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
