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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 400 times as cults)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,697 ratings — published 2021
The Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 261 times as cults)
avg rating 3.51 — 253,355 ratings — published 2016
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 233,108 ratings — published 2003
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as cults)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,877 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 238 times as cults)
avg rating 4.17 — 21,168 ratings — published 2017
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as cults)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,843 ratings — published 2013
Escape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 47,401 ratings — published 2007
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as cults)
avg rating 4.07 — 79,031 ratings — published 2015
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,288 ratings — published 1974
Breaking Free (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as cults)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,646 ratings — published 2017
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as cults)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,996,753 ratings — published 2018
Uncultured: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 22,621 ratings — published 2022
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,123 ratings — published 2021
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as cults)
avg rating 3.96 — 32,592 ratings — published 2008
Black Sheep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as cults)
avg rating 3.57 — 43,895 ratings — published 2023
Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as cults)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,978 ratings — published 2021
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as cults)
avg rating 3.70 — 18,256 ratings — published 2012
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as cults)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,211 ratings — published 1997
The Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as cults)
avg rating 3.50 — 16,542 ratings — published 2021
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as cults)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,748 ratings — published 2013
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
by (shelved 108 times as cults)
avg rating 4.23 — 114,498 ratings — published 2024
Just Like Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as cults)
avg rating 3.69 — 16,715 ratings — published 2022
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as cults)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,295 ratings — published 2011
The Sound of Gravel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 76,558 ratings — published 2016
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly (ebook)
by (shelved 100 times as cults)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,282 ratings — published 2015
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as cults)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,739 ratings — published 2022
The Last Housewife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as cults)
avg rating 3.68 — 72,240 ratings — published 2022
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as cults)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,179 ratings — published 2020
Hollywood Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as cults)
avg rating 4.28 — 17,351 ratings — published 2020
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as cults)
avg rating 3.87 — 9,634 ratings — published 2011
The Incendiaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as cults)
avg rating 3.20 — 25,684 ratings — published 2018
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as cults)
avg rating 3.99 — 163,711 ratings — published 2023
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as cults)
avg rating 4.25 — 230,667 ratings — published 2025
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as cults)
avg rating 3.56 — 3,331 ratings — published 2022
Little Eve (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as cults)
avg rating 3.73 — 12,112 ratings — published 2018
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as cults)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,240 ratings — published 2011
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as cults)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,549 ratings — published 2019
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as cults)
avg rating 4.27 — 42,397 ratings — published 2024
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as cults)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,770 ratings — published 1982
The Chosen One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as cults)
avg rating 3.85 — 15,767 ratings — published 2009
The Children of Red Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cults)
avg rating 3.38 — 6,925 ratings — published 2020
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cults)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,233 ratings — published 2017
The Polygamist's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cults)
avg rating 3.65 — 15,111 ratings — published 2017
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as cults)
avg rating 3.91 — 23,517 ratings — published 1997
Last Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as cults)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,994 ratings — published 2009
Little Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as cults)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,158 ratings — published 2017
Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as cults)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,713 ratings — published 1988
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as cults)
avg rating 3.92 — 126,288 ratings — published 1999
“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
“The Scooby gang doesn’t travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they’re one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred’s got them all snookered. It probably has something to do with the Scooby Snacks.”
― Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
― Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
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