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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 395 times as cults)
avg rating 3.79 — 125,744 ratings — published 2021
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 249,853 ratings — published 2016
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 230,576 ratings — published 2003
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,637 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 234 times as cults)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,634 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as cults)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,450 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,140 ratings — published 2007
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 78,389 ratings — published 2015
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,133 ratings — published 1974
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as cults)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,217 ratings — published 2017
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,906 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as cults)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,951,212 ratings — published 2018
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 21,432 ratings — published 2022
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 32,320 ratings — published 2008
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as cults)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,858 ratings — published 2021
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as cults)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,860 ratings — published 2023
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as cults)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,123 ratings — published 1997
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,610 ratings — published 2013
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as cults)
avg rating 3.50 — 16,372 ratings — published 2021
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 16,914 ratings — published 2012
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 107 times as cults)
avg rating 4.23 — 110,779 ratings — published 2024
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 16,359 ratings — published 2022
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 73,246 ratings — published 2016
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,130 ratings — published 2015
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,243 ratings — published 2011
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,506 ratings — published 2022
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,135 ratings — published 2020
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 69,094 ratings — published 2022
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 17,064 ratings — published 2020
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,611 ratings — published 2011
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 161,789 ratings — published 2023
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 — 25,554 ratings — published 2018
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,214 ratings — published 2011
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.27 — 217,783 ratings — published 2025
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 — 3,270 ratings — published 2022
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,370 ratings — published 2019
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,730 ratings — published 1982
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 11,763 ratings — published 2018
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,726 ratings — published 2009
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cults)
avg rating 4.27 — 39,195 ratings — published 2024
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,108 ratings — published 2017
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,951 ratings — published 2017
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cults)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,689 ratings — published 2020
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,569 ratings — published 2009
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 23,195 ratings — published 1997
Little Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 3.83 — 12,625 ratings — published 2017
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 3.93 — 125,459 ratings — published 1999
Gather the Daughters (ebook)
by (shelved 60 times as cults)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,372 ratings — published 2017
“Satanic ritual abuse (SRA) or ritual abuse may be defined as a method of control over people of all ages consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological mistreatment through the use of rituals, with or without satanic meaning or overtones. Perpetrators of SRA may utilize satanic rituals as part of their belief system and/or to facilitate the control and mistreatment of their victims.”
― The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 4
― The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 4
“When we're so caught up in a culture of consumerism [and that is precisely what network marketing is, consumption as a cult] images of people smiling in cars, happy homes and holidays, triggers deep feelings of insecurity.”
― Two Face: The man underneath Christopher Watts
― Two Face: The man underneath Christopher Watts
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