Cult Classics

Cult classics are works of fiction that are extremely popular with a select audience but which may or may not have been successful at the time of the works' original publications. ...more

Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Our Last Resort
Return to Sender (Walt Longmire, #21)
Stacken
The Last Housewife
Uncultured: A Memoir
Black Sheep
None Left to Tell
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
The Last Session
If You Lie
An Honest Lie
Just Like Mother
The Ascent
Death in the Downline
The Girls
It Ain't Me, Babe (Hades Hangmen, #1)
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Becoming Calder (Acadia Duology, #1)
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Fight Club
Heart Recaptured (Hades Hangmen, #2)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Just Like Mother
1984
Souls Unfractured (Hades Hangmen, #3)
Black Sheep
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
No Man Knows My History by Fawn M. BrodieWho Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? by Wayne L. CowdreyStanding For Something More by Lyndon LambornOut of Mormonism by Judy RobertsonSecret Ceremonies by Deborah Laake
Ex-MORmON
44 books — 22 voters

Cult Girls by Natalie GrandCult Child by Vennie KocsisEscape by Carolyn JessopAll Who Believed by Tamara MathieuBreaking Free by Rachel Jeffs
Cult Survivors
42 books — 46 voters
The Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnA Thousand Lives by Julia ScheeresSeductive Poison by Deborah LaytonRaven by Tim ReitermanStories from Jonestown by Leigh Fondakowski
JIM JONES & JONESTOWN
94 books — 23 voters


For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable responses to required behaviors so bizarre as to seem unreal, even to those who enacted them. What they could not deny or disavow, they could distort. They could blame the victims, who deserved to die for fighting or crying or for failing to fight or cry. They found encouragement for such a stance in a general culture accustomed to blaming vic ...more
Judith Spencer, Satan's High Priest

Isaac Asimov
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ...more
Isaac Asimov

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