join us🙏: a curated collection of cults

Fiction and nonfiction books about cults, survivors, and influence.

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created by mothermantis

last updated September, 2026

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Please consider adding the following nonfiction books:

  • Blazing Eye Sees All by Leah Sottile (about Love Has Won & the evolution of beliefs in the US)
  • Waco Rising by Kevin Cook (about the branch Davidians and the Waco standoff)
  • Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young (memoir about the Children of God and the US Army)
  • Scarred by Sarah Edmonson (memoir about NXIVM)
  • Don’t Call It A Cult by Sarah Berman (about NXIVM)
  • Troublemaker by Leah Remini (memoir about Scientology

Some others on my TBR:

  • The Culting of America by Daniella Mestyanek Young
  • The Well-Trained Wife by Tia Levings (memoir about Christian patriarchy and leaving the quiverfull movement)
  • Escaping Utopia by Janja Lalich and Karla McLaren (about leaving cults from at least one former cult member)
  • Take Back Your Life by Janja Lalich (about recovering from cults and abuse)
  • Beyond Belief by Jenna Miscavige (memoir about Scientology)
  • The Community by N. Jamiyla Chisholm (memoir about a Islamic cult in the US)
  • A Billion Years by Mike Rinder (memoir about Scientology)
  • Breaking Free by Rachel Jeff’s (memoir about FLDS)
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Great suggestions! I will go through these and add some! Thanks so much! ☺️

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