Books that feature religious trauma, cults, or high control groups that I've read or are on my tbr
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last updated November, 2025
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
Max Cutler
Lost Boy
Brent W. Jeffs
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs
Rachel Jeffs
Bunny
Mona Awad
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
Jesusland: Stories from the Upside Down World of Christian Pop Culture
Joelle Kidd
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
Mitch Weiss
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff Guinn
The Honeys
Ryan La Sala
Child X: A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology
Jamie Mustard
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Mike Rothschild
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
Jesselyn Cook
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America
Talia Lavin
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Faith Jones
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Andrew Joseph White
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
Emily Lynn Paulson
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon
The Woods All Black
Lee Mandelo
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
Shari Franke
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Tia Levings
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell
Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle
Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story
Julie Rodgers
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth
Kin
Shawna Kay Rodenberg
Sorrowland
Rivers Solomon
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
Ron Miscavige
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
Megan Phelps-Roper
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