17 Top nonfiction books like Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love by Michelle LeClair

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Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

By: Michelle LeClair

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory memoir by former "poster girl for Scientology" Michelle LeClair about her defection …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love by Michelle LeClair , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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 Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Lisa Pulitzer, Jenna Miscavige Hill

2. 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

Similar categories in Lisa Pulitzer's Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

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

Cover of Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Rebecca Paley, Leah Remini

3. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

By: Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Paley's Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"By their actions, they will show you who they are."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"He wasn't attached to Scientology like I was. For him it was simply a tool to better your life. Then, if it wasn't doing that, it was time to leave the church."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"I hate when people say 'Enjoy it' when you're complaining or something. I am enjoying it. But I also enjoy complaining about it. It's one of my favorite pastimes."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Cover of Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller

4. Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard

By: Russell Miller

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The founder and leader of the Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard was promoted for over 30 years … read more

Similar categories in Russell Miller's Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

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

5. 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 Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth

6. Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer

By: Stephen G. Michaud , Hugh Aynesworth

3.43

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Drawn from more than 150 hours of exclusive tape-recorded interviews with Bundy, this collection pr… read more

Similar categories in Stephen G. Michaud's Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook

7. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

By: Avi

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An ocean voyage of unimaginable consequences... Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murd… read more

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8. Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology

By: Marc Headley , None

3.76

Format: None pages,

The International Base of Scientology. The sprawling 500 acre property located deep in the Californ… read more

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9. Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

By: Ron Miscavige , Dan Koon

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing … read more

Similar categories in Ron Miscavige's Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

10. 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

Similar categories in Maia Szalavitz's Lost Boy book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

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

11. 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

Similar categories in Mitch Weiss's Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Karma: My Autobiography by Boy George

12. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

Similar categories in Boy George's Karma: My Autobiography book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes by Moshe Kasher

13. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

By: Moshe Kasher

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more

Similar categories in Moshe Kasher's Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

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

14. 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 Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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 When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown by Kenan Thompson

15. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

Similar categories in Kenan Thompson's When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult by Faith Jones

16. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

By: Faith Jones

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People , TIME , USA Today , Real Si… read more

Similar categories in Faith Jones's Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm by Catherine Oxenberg

17. Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm

By: Catherine Oxenberg

3.71

Format: 10 pages, Audiobook

Now updated with a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines exposé that la… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Oxenberg's Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love by Michelle LeClair

18. Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

By: Michelle LeClair

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory memoir by former "poster girl for Scientology" Michelle LeClair about her defection … read more

Similar categories in Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

19. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words by April Simpkins

20. By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words

By: April Simpkins

4.18

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before he… read more

Similar categories in April Simpkins's By the Time You Read This: The Space between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness—Her Story in Her Own Words book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Gay Science: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes by Rob      Anderson

21. Gay Science: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes

By: Rob Anderson

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Comedian Rob Anderson examines queer stereotypes and LGBTQ+ culture with humorous explanations borr… read more

Similar categories in Rob Anderson's Gay Science: The Totally Scientific Examination of LGBTQ+ Culture, Myths, and Stereotypes book and Michelle LeClair's Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer

14 Top audiobook books like Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love by Michelle LeClair

Transform Your Habits

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

Carolyn Jessop , Laura Palmer

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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

Lisa Pulitzer , Jenna Miscavige Hill

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer

Stephen G. Michaud , Hugh Aynesworth

3.43

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

Bernie Taupin

3.58

Transform Your Habits

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Karma: My Autobiography

Boy George

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Madonna: A Rebel Life

Mary Gabriel

4.03

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