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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 369 times as cults)
avg rating 3.81 — 111,662 ratings — published 2021
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 44,662 ratings — published 2013
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 221,858 ratings — published 2003
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 239,555 ratings — published 2016
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as cults)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,039 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as cults)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,166 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,116 ratings — published 2007
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,675 ratings — published 1974
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 75,431 ratings — published 2015
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as cults)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,084 ratings — published 2017
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,082 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as cults)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,797,604 ratings — published 2018
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,360 ratings — published 2008
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 15,598 ratings — published 2022
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,357 ratings — published 2021
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 15,834 ratings — published 2021
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as cults)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,953 ratings — published 1997
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as cults)
avg rating 3.58 — 31,960 ratings — published 2023
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as cults)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,997 ratings — published 2013
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 99 times as cults)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,770 ratings — published 2015
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,027 ratings — published 2022
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,929 ratings — published 2012
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,998 ratings — published 2011
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,553 ratings — published 2011
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,405 ratings — published 2020
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 60,671 ratings — published 2022
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cults)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,555 ratings — published 2022
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as cults)
avg rating 4.30 — 60,851 ratings — published 2016
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 — 25,143 ratings — published 2018
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,842 ratings — published 2020
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 78 times as cults)
avg rating 4.25 — 86,049 ratings — published 2024
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,064 ratings — published 2023
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,133 ratings — published 2011
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,652 ratings — published 2019
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,642 ratings — published 2009
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,875 ratings — published 2022
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,630 ratings — published 1982
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 — 7,734 ratings — published 2017
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 10,507 ratings — published 2018
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,034 ratings — published 1997
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as cults)
avg rating 3.39 — 5,926 ratings — published 2020
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,231 ratings — published 2009
The Liar's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as cults)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,227 ratings — published 2019
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as cults)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,122 ratings — published 2017
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as cults)
avg rating 4.36 — 138,264 ratings — published 2025
Gather the Daughters (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.60 — 10,845 ratings — published 2017
When the World Didn't End: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cults)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,136 ratings — published 2023
After the Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,144 ratings — published 2017
“Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.”
― Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
― Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
“A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that’s impossible!”
― Kidnapped by the Cult!
― Kidnapped by the Cult!
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