6 Top cults books like Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd

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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a…

If you liked the cults plot in Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

1. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
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2. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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3. 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 Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

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4. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

5. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

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8. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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9. 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 Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • 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

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11. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

Similar categories in Safiya Sinclair's How to Say Babylon book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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12. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

13. 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 Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

Similar categories in Monica Potts's The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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15. The Long March Home

By: Marcus Brotherton

4.56

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best frien… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Brotherton's The Long March Home book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • audiobook
Cover of Murder in Postscript (Lady of Letters #1) by Mary  Winters

16. Murder in Postscript (Lady of Letters #1)

By: Mary Winters

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess Amelia Ame… read more

Similar categories in Mary Winters's Murder in Postscript (Lady of Letters #1) book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle  Dowd

17. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains by Steph Jagger

18. Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains

By: Steph Jagger

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Between Two Kingdoms meets Wild . In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in Steph Jagger's Everything Left to Remember: My Mother, Our Memories, and a Journey Through the Rocky Mountains book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. Heretic: A Memoir

By: Jeanna Kadlec

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of leaving the Evangelical church, reckoning with religious trauma while also interrogatin… read more

Similar categories in Jeanna Kadlec's Heretic: A Memoir book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...Mary Lambert is singing "Love is patient, love is kind" from 1 Corinthians 13 over and over, repeating "Not crying on Sundays," and I am gone, head fully turned and staring out the car window, try…"

-Jeanna Kadlec, Heretic: A Memoir

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20. 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 Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving From Theory to Practice (A Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Grading, Instruction, and Learning) by Tom Schimmer

21. Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving From Theory to Practice (A Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Grading, Instruction, and Learning)

By: Tom Schimmer

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Get past the knowing-doing gap and confidently implement standards-based learning. This book offers… read more

Similar categories in Tom Schimmer's Standards-Based Learning in Action: Moving From Theory to Practice (A Guide to Implementing Standards-Based Grading, Instruction, and Learning) book and Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

  • nonfiction

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