13 Best nonfiction books like Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith by Carly Gelsinger

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Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

By: Carly Gelsinger

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Carly Gelsinger is an awkward and lonely thirteen-year-old when she stumbles into Pine Canyon Assem…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith by Carly Gelsinger , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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2. Animals Strike Curious Poses

By: Elena Passarello

3.80

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian perm… read more

Similar categories in Elena Passarello's Animals Strike Curious Poses book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • nonfiction
"We seem programmed to work for a future which doesn’t concern us exactly, but that rather involves something that resembles us. We all walk through the woods, our bodies rushing at the atomic level t…"

-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses

"As if every animal a human brain has ever seen, it has swallowed. We find their outlines, as if on Ouija boards, in mountains and in clouds. We scratch the arcs of their trunks in the dirt with our f…"

-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses

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3. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives f… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • nonfiction

4. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

By: Donald Miller

3.43

Format: 331 pages,

"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. I used to not like God because God di… read more

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5. When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over

By: Addie Zierman

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In the strange, us-versus-them Christian subculture of the 1990s, a person's faith was measured by … read more

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6. Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult

By: None

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs,… read more

Similar categories in None's Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

7. Jesus Land: A Memoir

By: Julia Scheeres

3.50

Format: 262 pages,

For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundam… read more

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8. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

By: Anne Lamott

3.58

Format: 376 pages,

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9. Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

By: Rachel Held Evans

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Rachel Held Evans embarks on a quest to find out what it really me… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Held Evans's Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

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10. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

By: Tom J. Bross

4.25

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more

Similar categories in Tom J. Bross's Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1) book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"One of my nipples is noticeably larger than the other two."

-Tom J. Bross, Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

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11. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • religion
  • nonfiction
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12. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell

3.85

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cults
"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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13. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lynn Paulson's Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • cults
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
  • memoir
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14. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

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15. 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 Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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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 Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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. Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

By: Carly Gelsinger

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Carly Gelsinger is an awkward and lonely thirteen-year-old when she stumbles into Pine Canyon Assem… read more

Similar categories in Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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18. Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

By: Megan Phelps-Roper

4.16

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many… read more

Similar categories in Megan Phelps-Roper's Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"You know I love you. You know I do. It's not just the idea of you. I know you. You also know I'm not coming to Topeka."

-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

"It is disconcerting - shamefully, unimaginably so - to look back and accept that my fellow church members and I were collectively engaging in the most egregious display of logical blindness that I ha…"

-Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

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19. Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more

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20. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Byas's I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times book and Carly Gelsinger's Once You Go In: A Memoir of Radical Faith

  • nonfiction
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21. The World Cannot Give

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How far would you go after finding something–or someone–worthy of devotion?... Don't miss the no… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell

3.85

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Uncultured: A Memoir

Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

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When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

Guinevere Turner

3.74

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Tom J. Bross

4.25

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Running From The Mirror

Howard Shulman

4.45

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Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

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Devorah Shafrir Keret

4.23

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