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 August, 2026
The Polygamist's Daughter
Anna LeBaron
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
Sam Brower
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
Kathryn Joyce
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Harrison Mooney
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult
Michelle Dowd
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
Max Cutler
Lost Boy: The True Story of One Man's Exile from a Polygamist Cult and His Brave Journey to Reclaim His Life
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
Tal 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
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