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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 379 times as cults)
avg rating 3.81 — 115,404 ratings — published 2021
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 241,814 ratings — published 2016
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 223,933 ratings — published 2003
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 44,897 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 219 times as cults)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,416 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 210 times as cults)
avg rating 3.78 — 41,527 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 46,341 ratings — published 2007
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,533 ratings — published 1974
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 76,460 ratings — published 2015
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 — 10,250 ratings — published 2021
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as cults)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,548 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as cults)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,831,937 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 — 31,559 ratings — published 2008
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,262 ratings — published 2022
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,492 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 — 3,983 ratings — published 1997
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 15,975 ratings — published 2021
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as cults)
avg rating 3.58 — 34,710 ratings — published 2023
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,142 ratings — published 2013
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,762 ratings — published 2012
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 15,380 ratings — published 2022
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 96 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 12,859 ratings — published 2015
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 — 7,051 ratings — published 2011
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 89 times as cults)
avg rating 4.25 — 93,305 ratings — published 2024
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 62,111 ratings — published 2022
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,573 ratings — published 2020
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 4.31 — 63,578 ratings — published 2016
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,566 ratings — published 2011
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 — 7,754 ratings — published 2022
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 — 3,907 ratings — published 2020
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as cults)
avg rating 3.21 — 25,239 ratings — published 2018
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as cults)
avg rating 4.00 — 153,229 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 — 5,152 ratings — published 2011
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,984 ratings — published 2022
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,819 ratings — published 2019
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,671 ratings — published 2009
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cults)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,656 ratings — published 1982
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 10,910 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 — 7,835 ratings — published 2017
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as cults)
avg rating 4.33 — 157,964 ratings — published 2025
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as cults)
avg rating 3.39 — 6,142 ratings — published 2020
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,607 ratings — published 2009
The Liar's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as cults)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,291 ratings — published 2019
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cults)
avg rating 3.64 — 14,413 ratings — published 2017
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,295 ratings — published 1997
A History of Wild Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.92 — 66,789 ratings — published 2021
Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm (Audiobook)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,208 ratings — published 2018
Little Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as cults)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,400 ratings — published 2017
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