19 must-read nonfiction books like Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later by Christine Faour

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Behind the Dress: One Woman's Life in a Religious Cult and the Healing That Came Later by Christine Faour , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Della's Web: The Many Husbands of a Suburban Black Widow

By: Aphrodite Jones

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

NEW EPUB FILE UPLOADED APRIL 9, 2015 Cincinnati heart surgeon Darryl Sutorious was spellbound, conv… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me by Alex Tresniowski, Paul Joseph Fronczak

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

By: Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"A gripping tale of secrets and self-discovery." --People The Foundlingtells the incredible and ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

3. 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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4. Shattered Dreams Restored

By: Irene Spencer

3.19

Format: 32 pages,

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5. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

By: Tom J. Bross

4.25

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"One of my nipples is noticeably larger than the other two."

-Tom J. Bross, Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

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6. Running From The Mirror

By: Howard Shulman

4.45

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that devoured his nose, l… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined."

-Howard Shulman, Running From The Mirror

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7. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Displaced: A Memoir by Esther Wiebe

8. Displaced: A Memoir

By: Esther Wiebe

4.30

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Displaced is a gripping true story of a young girl and her young siblings’ escape from a conservat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Susan J. Eischeid

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

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • 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

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

  • cult classics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs by Amanda Lamb

12. Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

By: Amanda Lamb

4.01

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

A perfect life. A perfect lie. When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina with he… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart by Joan Leech

13. Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart

By: Joan Leech

4.27

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

This extraordinary true story will move you to tears and inspire you to never give up. Set in No… read more

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14. Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder

By: Ken Englade

4.09

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

The She was a beautiful, gifted descendant of Lady Astor. But Elizabeth Haysom was also a spoiled,… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Secrets of a Nun: My Own Story by Elizabeth Upton

15. Secrets of a Nun: My Own Story

By: Elizabeth Upton

4.18

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets of a Nun is a revealing, uncompromisingly honest, and deeply moving look into one woman's s… read more

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16. 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
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis

17. Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

By: Pidgeon Pagonis

4.37

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

From intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Hey, hey, listen,"

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

"The system didn’t want to say that I’m intersex. That I’m not female or male. The doctors wanted to choose a gender for me and then make my body agree with their ideas about who I should be."

-Pidgeon Pagonis, Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir

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18. A Nobody in a Somebody World: My Hollywood Life in Beverly Hills

By: Lorraine Holnback Brodek

3.96

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wondered what it's like for a nobody in a somebody world?"How can you not read a book… read more

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Cover of BUTTER SIDE UP, THANK GOD!: A MEMOIR by Tina Wagner Mattern

19. BUTTER SIDE UP, THANK GOD!: A MEMOIR

By: Tina Wagner Mattern

4.36

Format: 493 pages, Kindle Edition

This memoir is the true, no holds barred story of my incredibly blessed, ridiculously messy life. I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Baby Doll: My Mother, My Secrets by Charlotte Rossler

20. Baby Doll: My Mother, My Secrets

By: Charlotte Rossler

4.31

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

If you like real-life comeback stories, international adventure, and lessons learned walking throug… read more

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Cover of Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #3) by Tom J. Bross

21. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #3)

By: Tom J. Bross

4.62

Format: 387 pages, ebook

Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Our Elizabeth: Her Struggle With Opioid Addiction by Larry C. Turner

22. Our Elizabeth: Her Struggle With Opioid Addiction

By: Larry C. Turner

4.17

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

In the late 1990’s pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not… read more

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Cover of Laugh Cry Rewind: A Memoir by Judy Haveson

23. Laugh Cry Rewind: A Memoir

By: Judy Haveson

4.31

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Growing up in 1970s and 80s suburban Houston, Judy Haveson is funny, sarcastic, and fiercely loyal,… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of An Only Child and Her Sister by Casey Maxwell Clair

24. An Only Child and Her Sister

By: Casey Maxwell Clair

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

AN ONLY CHILD AND HER SISTER is a compelling true life story. Two sisters born to the same parents … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Plain Anna: an Amish memoir

By: Anna Schwartz

4.47

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Being plain and experiencing pain did not define me, but it did shape me. Anna Schwartz knew fear;… read more

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26. 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

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

  • cult classics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Love, Alyssa: An FLDS Teenager's Diary by Alyssa Bistline

29. Love, Alyssa: An FLDS Teenager's Diary

By: Alyssa Bistline

2.98

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wanted to read an FLDS girl's diary? Get insight into the FLDS, polygamy, and women's… read more

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Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

30. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

Cover of Stop The Tall Man, Save The Tiger: My Journey In And Out Of A Cult by Peter        Young

31. Stop The Tall Man, Save The Tiger: My Journey In And Out Of A Cult

By: Peter Young

3.90

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

Peter Young was a successful sports broadcaster when he met and fell in love with Paige. They marri… read more

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  • nonfiction

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

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Stolen Innocence

Lisa Pulitzer , Elissa Wall

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Daughters of Zion: A Family's Conversion to Polygamy

Kim Taylor

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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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