13 Top nonfiction books like Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult by Kathy Jaelyn

Cover of Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult by Kathy Jaelyn

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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult by Kathy Jaelyn , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Stolen Innocence by Lisa Pulitzer, Elissa Wall

1. 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
  • nonfiction
  • cults
"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

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2. 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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  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • cults
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3. 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 Kathy Jaelyn's Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • cults
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4. 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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  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • cults

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. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World book and Kathy Jaelyn's Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult

  • nonfiction
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11. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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

12. 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

Similar categories in Kathy Jaelyn's Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult book and Kathy Jaelyn's Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult

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

13. 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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  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • cults
Cover of The Crick Code: A Novel Based on the Memoirs of a Girl Raised in the FLDS Community of Colorado City by Betsy Cluff

14. The Crick Code: A Novel Based on the Memoirs of a Girl Raised in the FLDS Community of Colorado City

By: Betsy Cluff

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Forced to flee her childhood home and biological father due to a declaration from the Prophet, Becc… read more

Similar categories in Betsy Cluff's The Crick Code: A Novel Based on the Memoirs of a Girl Raised in the FLDS Community of Colorado City book and Kathy Jaelyn's Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult

  • nonfiction
Cover of The First 20 Years of My Life, In the FLDS by Jenelle Jessop

15. The First 20 Years of My Life, In the FLDS

By: Jenelle Jessop

3.49

Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition

I grew up in the FLDS. My life was hectic and unstable. After leaving, I brought it up I conversati… read more

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Cover of Abnormal Normal: My Life in the Children of God by Mary Mahoney

16. Abnormal Normal: My Life in the Children of God

By: Mary Mahoney

4.01

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

A rational look into a very irrational group mentality.The early 1970’s was a turbulent time in the… read more

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

17. 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 Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later by Christine Faour

18. 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 Kathy Jaelyn's Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult

  • cult classics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Locked in: My Imprisoned Years in a Destructive Cult by John Huddle

19. Locked in: My Imprisoned Years in a Destructive Cult

By: John Huddle

3.85

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Locked in pulls back the thick curtain holding many of the secrets inside Word of Faith Fellowship.… read more

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  • cult classics
  • nonfiction
  • cults
Cover of Seventeen Sisters: Tell Their Story by Barbara Barlow

20. Seventeen Sisters: Tell Their Story

By: Barbara Barlow

3.64

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

We've watched interesting plural marriages in TV documentaries, read about them in books, and even … read more

Similar categories in Barbara Barlow's Seventeen Sisters: Tell Their Story book and Kathy Jaelyn's Give Me Back My Children: Trapped in a Cult

  • nonfiction
Cover of Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl by Zarifa Adiba

21. Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl

By: Zarifa Adiba

4.27

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

A passionate musician growing up in the war-torn streets of Kabul takes her forbidden talents abroa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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3.83

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Emma Gingerich

3.89

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Irene Spencer

4.33

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Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

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Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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3.77

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4.15

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