Recs if you like Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult...

Books where cults are a significant part of the narrative. Some fiction, some non-fiction.

Memoirs from people who either are or were in religious movements or cults of any kind. This is not anti-religion, and includes memoirs of people still in their religions, and I am ALWAYS looking for more - please offer suggestions.

Books featuring nuns…

Suggestions welcome.

most of these are focused on christianity as those are the books i have personally researched but many are applicable for other faiths as well. no one is required to deconstruct, but for those of us looking to read more, here is the place i’ve started.

NonFiction about and by people who were homeschooled or in nontraditional schooling, causing educational neglect and abuse, for some or all of their childhood and adolescence. These books feature, examine &/or deconstruct the systems and instances of harm that frequently occur in insular, high control educational environments.

🚨⚠️⚠️⚠️🚨 Huge & Varied Content Warnings ♡ Take care with your bodyminds ♡

In progress Pending additions in the twinned shelf Suggestions welcome!

Name-calling and insults you might hear on the playground and beyond...

Anything can be an insult if you believe it! My kid brother used to get in trouble for calling us "you...you BEAN" with all the spite his little preschool self could manage 🥹

Because, of course, the scientific method is for heathens, nerds & pussies

Non Fiction featuring medical neglect & endangerment by people who know better, but are being reckless or contemptuous of scientific rigour, & people who believe evidence based medicine &/or science as a whole are bogus.

Fuck Around & Find Out— medical style.

Suggestions welcome! In progress Potential additions in the twinned shelf

🚨⚠️⚠️⚠️🚨 Huge & Varied Content Warnings ♡ Take care with your bodyminds ♡

Books that feature religious trauma, cults, or high control groups that I've read or are on my tbr

These works (like Conspirituality and Doppelganger) show how high-control ideologies have moved out of the dark corners of the internet and into the mainstream by adopting the aesthetics of wellness, fitness, and motherhood. They teach us to recognize when the language of "liberation" is being used to build a new cage. This shit is insidious. The more you know

non-fiction and memoirs about cults and high control groups/religions. some of these are on my tbr, some are books I've already read

Who doesn’t love a good ole fashion cult?

Contains fiction & nonfiction.

Being raised in a super strict IFB household, surging years of abuse being justified by “biblical discipline “ has left me searching for books that leave me feeling more informed, and like I’m not alone in surviving toxicity. These books do just that.