8 Best polygamy books like In My Father's House by Dorothy Allred Solomon

Cover of In My Father's House by Dorothy Allred Solomon

In My Father's House

By: Dorothy Allred Solomon

3.41

Format: 312 pages, Library Binding

The author describes the polygamous marriages of her father and grandfather, her husband's experien…

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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 Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • biography
  • memoir
  • polygamy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Stolen Innocence by Lisa Pulitzer, Elissa Wall

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

Similar categories in Lisa Pulitzer's Stolen Innocence book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • biography
  • memoir
  • polygamy
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • 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 Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement by Irene Spencer

3. Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement

By: Irene Spencer

3.68

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Life for Irene Spencer was a series of devastating disappointments and hardships. Irene's first boo… read more

Similar categories in Irene Spencer's Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • biography
  • memoir
  • polygamy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife by Irene Spencer

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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • polygamy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Cover of Fifty Years in Polygamy: Big Secrets and Little White Lies by Kristyn Decker

6. Fifty Years in Polygamy: Big Secrets and Little White Lies

By: Kristyn Decker

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

There is much ado about polygamy these days. Media coverage, HBO's Big Love, TLC's Sister Wives, th… read more

Similar categories in Kristyn Decker's Fifty Years in Polygamy: Big Secrets and Little White Lies book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • biography
  • memoir
  • polygamy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore

7. Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

By: Susan Gregg Gilmore

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.… read more

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

8. 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,

read more

Similar categories in Stephen Singular's When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear, and the Women Who Fought Back book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • polygamy
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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir

10. 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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11. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Audio CD

A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nine… read more

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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

By: Sally Denton

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more

Similar categories in Sally Denton's The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • polygamy
Cover of Pink Lemonade Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #29) by Joanne Fluke

16. Pink Lemonade Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #29)

By: Joanne Fluke

3.38

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In this irresistible mystery from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joanne Fluke, Han… read more

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17. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Cover of Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, #1) by B.B. Alston

18. Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, #1)

By: B.B. Alston

4.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full schol… read more

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Cover of What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

19. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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Cover of The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife by Shannon Harris

20. 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

Similar categories in Shannon Harris's The Woman They Wanted: Shattering the Illusion of the Good Christian Wife book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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

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

21. 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 Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
Cover of The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin

22. The Music of Bees

By: Eileen Garvin

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A heartwarming debut novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, following three lone… read more

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23. Her Hidden Genius

By: Marie Benedict

3.94

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and co-author of The Per… read more

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"There you have it. He is resentful that a woman is succeeding where he failed, and most likely, he will either continue to encroach on your territory or try to take credit for your work. Be careful."

-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius

"Exactly," he answers again, with that patronizing smile. Watson's approach to science contains such a vital flaw it nearly takes my breath away. How can one call oneself a scientist and begin one's i…"

-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius

"Science IS life, dear cousin. It is the lens through which I see and experience the and make sense of the world around me, and it is my way of giving back. In solving crucial scientific mysteries at …"

-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius

"It is in these moments that I wonder--despite my love of and commitment to science--if I have chosen the right track. Should I be following the long-established path carved out for me by my family, a…"

-Marie Benedict, Her Hidden Genius

Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

24. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

Similar categories in Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

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

25. 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 Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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26. A Single Swallow

By: Zhang Ling

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling’s epic and intimate nove… read more

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Cover of Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood by Stephen   Mills

27. Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood

By: Stephen Mills

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Memoir "An unparalleled achievement , a work of shatt… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Mills's Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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

28. 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 Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • nonfiction
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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30. In My Father's House

By: Dorothy Allred Solomon

3.41

Format: 312 pages, Library Binding

The author describes the polygamous marriages of her father and grandfather, her husband's experien… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House book and Dorothy Allred Solomon's In My Father's House

  • biography
  • memoir
  • polygamy
  • autobiography
  • religion
  • nonfiction

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