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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 378 times as cults)
avg rating 3.81 — 113,527 ratings — published 2021
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 240,712 ratings — published 2016
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 44,778 ratings — published 2013
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 222,829 ratings — published 2003
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as cults)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,213 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 209 times as cults)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,339 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 — 46,248 ratings — published 2007
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 75,904 ratings — published 2015
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,077 ratings — published 1974
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 146 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,158 ratings — published 2021
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as cults)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,296 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as cults)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,814,053 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 136 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 31,482 ratings — published 2008
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,451 ratings — published 2022
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,425 ratings — published 2021
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cults)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,964 ratings — published 1997
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 15,909 ratings — published 2021
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as cults)
avg rating 3.58 — 33,344 ratings — published 2023
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,066 ratings — published 2013
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,235 ratings — published 2022
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 96 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,799 ratings — published 2015
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,323 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 — 7,031 ratings — published 2011
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,456 ratings — published 2020
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,557 ratings — published 2011
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 61,358 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 — 7,660 ratings — published 2022
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as cults)
avg rating 4.30 — 62,218 ratings — published 2016
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 83 times as cults)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,731 ratings — published 2024
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,871 ratings — published 2020
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 — 25,184 ratings — published 2018
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as cults)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,518 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 — 5,143 ratings — published 2011
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,731 ratings — published 2019
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,915 ratings — published 2022
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,659 ratings — published 2009
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,646 ratings — published 1982
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 10,719 ratings — published 2018
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 — 7,784 ratings — published 2017
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,033 ratings — published 2020
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,166 ratings — published 1997
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as cults)
avg rating 4.34 — 147,899 ratings — published 2025
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,435 ratings — published 2009
The Liar's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as cults)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,250 ratings — published 2019
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cults)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,270 ratings — published 2017
A History of Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.92 — 66,420 ratings — published 2021
Not Without My Sister (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,309 ratings — published 2007
When the World Didn't End: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cults)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,172 ratings — published 2023
“Some people gather collateral. Others gather evidence. Collateral is intended to harm, shame and intimidate. Evidence is used to defend. Cults gather collateral. Collateral gathering is harmful.”
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“I see no difference between the socially acceptable cult of Christianity and any other cult. It's just another "rescue package" to fight over.”
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