16 must-read nonfiction books like Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology by Sands Hall

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Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

By: Sands Hall

3.54

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

"With its keen attention to the language and tactics of the church, Hall’s memoir is unique among t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology by Sands Hall , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Lisa Pulitzer, Jenna Miscavige Hill

1. Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Jenna Miscavige Hill

3.77

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

Jenna Miscavige was raised to obey. As niece of the Church of Scientology's leader David Miscavige,… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Pulitzer's Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling…"

-Lisa Pulitzer, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

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2. Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape

By: Emma Gingerich

3.89

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Growing up Amish and leaving the fold, Emma Gingerich left her Amish community in Eagleville, Misso… read more

Similar categories in Emma Gingerich's Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Church of Lies

By: Flora Jessop , None , Paul T. Brown

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the Preface: "My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, … read more

Similar categories in Flora Jessop's Church of Lies book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

4. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

By: Lawrence Wright

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard

By: Russell Miller

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The founder and leader of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard was promoted for over 30 years … read more

Similar categories in Russell Miller's Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction

6. The Polygamist's Daughter

By: Leslie Wilson , Anna LeBaron

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

"My father had more than fifty children." So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter o… read more

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7. Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

By: Anthony Summers

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Marilyn Monroe. Her rollar-coaster life. Her deception - shrouded death. Her divided secret life. H… read more

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8. Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

By: None

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

Written by a cult survivor and renowned expert on cults and totalitarianism, Terror, Love and Brain… read more

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9. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish

By: Misty Griffin

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more

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10. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home

By: Rhoda Janzen

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and moving memoir--in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron--about a woman who retu… read more

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11. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

Similar categories in James Renner's Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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12. Scarred

By: Sarah Edmondson

3.94

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

"'Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table, acutel… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Edmondson's Scarred book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
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13. Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself

By: Linda A. Curtis

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovah's Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocke… read more

Similar categories in Linda A. Curtis's Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • audiobook
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14. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

Similar categories in Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

15. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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16. A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

By: Mike Rinder

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powe… read more

Similar categories in Mike Rinder's A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"The fear of psychiatry is one of the hardest ideas to shake when you escape from the mind-prison."

-Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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17. The Demon Next Door

By: Bryan Burrough

3.33

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Burrough's The Demon Next Door book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown by Kenan Thompson

18. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

Similar categories in Kenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology by Sands Hall

19. Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

By: Sands Hall

3.54

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

"With its keen attention to the language and tactics of the church, Hall’s memoir is unique among t… read more

Similar categories in Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
Cover of Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia by Russell    King

20. Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia

By: Russell King

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is… read more

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  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival by Spencer Schneider

21. Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

By: Spencer Schneider

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They took an oath of absolute secrecy and lived in a covert world in plain sight. “It didn’t loo… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Schneider's Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival book and Sands Hall's Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"I was a member of the Gans group for over 20 years. I didn't realize it was really a cult until I took the step, out the door. Ironically, that's when I finally felt and tasted the very freedom that …"

-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

"...There were dozens of construction projects where members were coerced into working in dangerous conditions for free...We were paying for the privilege of being forced to build for Sharon and other…"

-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

14 Best audiobook books like Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology by Sands Hall

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Lisa Pulitzer , Jenna Miscavige Hill

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape

Emma Gingerich

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

James Renner

3.74

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7 best-selling adult books like Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence by James Renner

Transform Your Habits

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

The Amish Wife

Gregg Olsen

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

James Renner

3.74

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