Recs if you like The Book of Essie...

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

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

“Nothing here is fake.” — The Truman Show

across both dystopian and realist worlds, these books centre depictions of reality tv in facilitating discussions around surveillance, capitalism, exploitation, and how both global and local suffering is sensationalised.

Books that have online communities, traditional lifestyles, unlikeable characters and everything that can go wrong when you mash them up together.

Books centered around reality TV (any genre) sorry, some of these are originally in French and there may not be a translation yet

fiction about generations of families, their relationships, and their legacies.