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(Ex) Religion and Cult Memoirs

by FeralAcademic

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.

A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back

Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult

A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back

For my bipolar baddies

Books about bipolar disorder, mostly nonfiction but would love if someone had some fiction recommendations. PLEASE CHECK TWs I have not read all of these so take it with a grain of salt, I just wanted to compile a list to share the bipolar experience

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Madness: A Bipolar Life

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Madness: A Bipolar Life

Service95 Book Club

by steviedoritoes

Service95 Book Club Monthly Reads + more and more books from their lists :)

Just Kids

Pachinko

Shuggie Bain

Half of a Yellow Sun

Just Kids

Pachinko

Fiction-like nonfiction

Nonfiction (mostly 😺) that read like fiction

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

In Cold Blood

A Night to Remember (The Titanic Chronicles, #1)

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Proof of Life with Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Non-Fiction

Wishful Drinking

Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D

Phoenix Girl: A Memoir

Wishful Drinking

Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

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