16 best-selling biography books like Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children by Wallace Jeffs

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Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children

By: Wallace Jeffs

4.21

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011, Wallace rebelled against…

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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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
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2. Stolen Innocence

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Elissa Wall

3.94

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous f… read more

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  • memoir
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  • nonfiction
"With no other choice, I'd submitted to the will of our prophet and had married my nineteen-year-old first cousin."

-Lisa Pulitzer, Stolen Innocence

"In the end, He's the only reason that I made it. Sometimes that's the only thing we have. Whether you call it God, or hope, or faith -whatever word you use- the fact is, I couldn't have survived if I…"

-Lisa Pulitzer, Stolen Innocence

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

3. 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

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  • memoir
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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
"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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4. Daughters of Zion: A Family's Conversion to Polygamy

By: Kim Taylor

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A memoir of misguided faith, unholy violence, and spiritual awakening. An odyssey of mayhem, murder… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
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  • nonfiction
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5. Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

By: Irene Spencer

4.33

Format: None pages,

IRENE SPENCER grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family- the thirteenth of thirty-one children- so … read more

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6. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
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  • nonfiction
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7. 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

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  • memoir
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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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8. Answer Them Nothing: Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs

By: Debra Weyermann

4.08

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

When police raided the Short Creek compound of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • cults
Cover of When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back by Stephen Singular

9. When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back

By: Stephen Singular

3.58

Format: 366 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • cults
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy

By: Susan Ray Schmidt

4.43

Format: 303 pages,

His Favorite Wifeis the heart-stopping, inspirational narrative of a courageous, fifteen-year-old g… read more

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14. 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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15. Escape

By: Carolyn Jessop , Laura Palmer

5.00

Format: None pages,

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, a… read more

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16. 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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17. Lost Boy

By: Maia Szalavitz , Brent W. Jeffs

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can beco… read more

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18. Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

By: Jon Krakauer , Sam Brower

4.01

Format: 532 pages,

From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the… read more

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

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

By: Mitch Weiss

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, Jane Whaley, a fiery preacher with a thick Southern drawl, attracted a small group of foll… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. 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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"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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21. 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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  • cult classics
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22. Torture Mom: A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder

By: Ryan Green

3.92

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1965, teenagers Sylvia and Jenny Likens were left in the temporary care of Gertrude Banisze… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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23. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal by Mary Turner Thomson

24. The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal

By: Mary Turner Thomson

3.94

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that blew her life apart. The woman on the other… read more

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

25. 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

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  • religion
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Cover of Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children by Wallace Jeffs

26. Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children

By: Wallace Jeffs

4.21

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011, Wallace rebelled against… read more

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  • cults
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  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
Cover of Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult by Kathy Jaelyn

27. Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult

By: Kathy Jaelyn

4.42

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

She only wanted to be a Mother to her own children-FLDS Cult leader had other plans. Sarah was born… read more

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  • cult classics
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Cover of Behind Blue Curtains: A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman's Survival, Escape, and Pursuit of Justice by Lizzy Hershberger

28. Behind Blue Curtains: A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman's Survival, Escape, and Pursuit of Justice

By: Lizzy Hershberger

4.27

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

When Lizzy Hershberger turns fourteen, her schooling ends at eighth grade, and she has no choice bu… read more

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Cover of Born In Polygamy: A True Crime Autobiography by Rebecca Kimbel

29. Born In Polygamy: A True Crime Autobiography

By: Rebecca Kimbel

4.17

Format: 716 pages, Kindle Edition

I was born a slave, sold as a slave and bred as a slave in the United States of America. My life is… read more

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Cover of Tell Your Heart To Beat Again by Charlene Jeffs

30. Tell Your Heart To Beat Again

By: Charlene Jeffs

3.54

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a beautiful and happy-go-lucky childhood, to a confusing adolescence, abusive marriage, and… read more

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Cover of Texas Raid: My Experience of the Texas Raid on the YFZ Ranch by Ammon Jeffs

31. Texas Raid: My Experience of the Texas Raid on the YFZ Ranch

By: Ammon Jeffs

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the 2008 raid on the Yearning For Zion ranch by Texas and Federal Authorities … read more

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15 must-read religion books like Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children by Wallace Jeffs

Transform Your Habits

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

Carolyn Jessop , Laura Palmer

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Stolen Innocence

Lisa Pulitzer , Elissa Wall

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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

Lisa Pulitzer , Jenna Miscavige Hill

3.77

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Daughters of Zion: A Family's Conversion to Polygamy

Kim Taylor

3.83

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Stolen Innocence

Lisa Pulitzer , Elissa Wall

3.94

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Kim Taylor

3.83

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Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape

Emma Gingerich

3.89

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Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

Irene Spencer

4.33

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