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created by thewanderingelf
last updated February, 2026
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Faith Jones
The Community
N. Jamiyla Chisholm
SAVAGE MESSIAH
Paul Kaihla
The Son of Seven Mothers
Benjamin Risha
The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them
Daniella Mestyanek Young
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
A Darker Place
Laurie R. King
Stolen Innocence
Elissa Wall
The Sound of Gravel
Ruth Wariner
Hollywood Park
Mikel Jollett
Just Like Mother
Anne Heltzel
In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
Rebecca Stott
Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion
Benjamin E. Zeller
Cults: A True Crime Collection: The Shocking True Stories of Heaven's Gate, the Manson Family, Jim Jones, the Branch Davidians, and More Deathly Cases
Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill
Child of Satan, Child of God
Susan Atkins-Whitehouse
The Girls
Emma Cline
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn
Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
Jane Borden
Children of Paradise
Fred D'Aguiar
Understanding Cults: The Official Workbook
Steven Hassan
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
Mitch Weiss
Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult!)
Bethany Joy Lenz
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
Max Cutler
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell
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