25 Best biography books like Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice by Jessica Willis Fisher

Cover of Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice by Jessica Willis Fisher

Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

By: Jessica Willis Fisher

4.52

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait …

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Cover of Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons by Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer

1. Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons

By: Carolyn Jessop , Laura Palmer

3.83

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving and inspirational true story of one woman’s life after fleeing the ultra-fundamentalist Am… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Jessop's Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Church of Lies by Flora Jessop, None, Paul T.  Brown

2. 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 Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lisa Pulitzer, Lauren Drain

3. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Lauren Drain

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

NOW A NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERYou've likely heard of the WestboroBaptistChurch. Perhaps you've seen… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Pulitzer's Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. The Sound of Gravel

By: Ruth Wariner

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist cult. Ruth Wari… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice

By: Rebecca Musser , M. Bridget Cook

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" o… 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

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7. 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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8. 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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9. Counting the Cost

By: Jill Duggar

4.06

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family… read more

Similar categories in Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

Cover of Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton

10. Paris: The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length: 8 hours and 22 minutes ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the… read more

Similar categories in Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

Cover of Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo

11. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more

Similar categories in Jinger Duggar Vuolo's Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity by Alice Greczyn

12. Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity

By: Alice Greczyn

4.41

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

When Alice Greczyn’s parents felt called by God to exchange worldly employment for heavenly provisi… read more

Similar categories in Alice Greczyn's Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore

13. All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

By: Beth Moore

4.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An incredibly thoughtful,… read more

Similar categories in Beth Moore's All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Once you've broken to pieces, the luxury of imagining yourself unbreakable evaporates."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"You want to know how to love me? Love my children. You want to be good to me? Be good to my children."

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

"A teenager doesn't know she's still a child. A teenager feels like an adult, I suppose primarily because her outside, her flesh and her face, her body, her size, her width and height, look like - and…"

-Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir

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14. Bad Mormon: A Memoir

By: Heather Gay

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memo… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was beginning to learn the gendered rules for behavior. My parents did not want a steely-eyed warrior for a daughter- they wanted someone obedient and kind. She didn't have to be a quivering sack o…"

-Heather Gay, Bad Mormon: A Memoir

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15. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

Cover of Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

16. 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 Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

By: Shannon Harris

3.77

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"No one is coming to rescue me. I am going to have to rescue me." As a twenty-three-year-old sin… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Harris's The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But the truth was that church was making me ill. Even the loveliest church in the world couldn't make up for the fact that I had had too much church. My body was rejecting Bible verses with the stren…"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"...the hypocrisy of it all was too much to take. To have heard the words 'forgiveness' and 'grace' in hundreds of sermons, thousands of prayers, in every quote, every song, at every meeting and then …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

"Religion carries with it great potential for good and for harm. It's humans that make it more complicated (and more certain) and heavier than it needs to be. Religion shouldn't be something heavy we …"

-Shannon Harris, The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Cover of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

18. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner

19. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hefner's Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Scarred by Sarah  Edmondson

20. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

21. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder

22. 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

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

Cover of The Hope We Hold: Finding Peace in the Promises of God Every Day by Jinger Duggar Vuolo

23. The Hope We Hold: Finding Peace in the Promises of God Every Day

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

TLC's Counting On breakout stars Jeremy and Jinger Vuolo share their love story, a behind-the-scene… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice by Jessica Willis Fisher

24. Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

By: Jessica Willis Fisher

4.52

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning by Sarah Stankorb

25. Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

By: Sarah Stankorb

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet—its networks, freedom of expression, … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stankorb's Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

26. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later by Christine Faour

27. Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later

By: Christine Faour

3.77

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

A patriarchal, fundamentalist and abusive cult that was hidden in plain sight. The Amazon Prime doc… read more

Similar categories in Christine Faour's Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

28. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

Similar categories in Cait West's Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Didn't Survive: Emerging Whole After Deception, Persecution, and Hidden Abuse (Persecution of Christians in Iran) by Naghmeh Abedini Panahi

29. I Didn't Survive: Emerging Whole After Deception, Persecution, and Hidden Abuse (Persecution of Christians in Iran)

By: Naghmeh Abedini Panahi

4.67

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s hard enough having a painful secret that you are terrified of sharing.It’s even harder when yo… read more

Similar categories in Naghmeh Abedini Panahi's I Didn't Survive: Emerging Whole After Deception, Persecution, and Hidden Abuse (Persecution of Christians in Iran) book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing by Kimberly Shannon Murphy

30. Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing

By: Kimberly Shannon Murphy

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A USA Today Book Club Pick Foreword by Cameron Diaz “Reading Kimberly Shannon Murphy’s searing and … read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Shannon Murphy's Glimmer: A Story of Survival, Hope, and Healing book and Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lovingly Abused by Heather Grace Heath

31. Lovingly Abused

By: Heather Grace Heath

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In this highly relevant memoir, blending raw honesty and humor, Heather Heath's story begins with h… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction

21 best-selling audiobook books like Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice by Jessica Willis Fisher

Transform Your Habits

Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons

Carolyn Jessop , Laura Palmer

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Sound of Gravel

Ruth Wariner

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Paris: The Memoir

Paris Hilton

4.22

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8 Top audiobook books like Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later by Christine Faour

Transform Your Habits

The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife

Shannon Harris

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults

Mitch Weiss

4.15

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