19 must-read nonfiction books like Doomsday Cults: The Devil's Hostages by Alan R. Warren

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Doomsday Cults: The Devil's Hostages

By: Alan R. Warren

3.66

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Doomsday Cults: The Devil's Hostages by Alan R. Warren , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story by Jeremy Grimaldi

1. A Daughter's Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story

By: Jeremy Grimaldi

3.45

Format: 336 pages, ebook

2017 Arthur Ellis Award, Best Nonfiction Book — WinnerA sinister plot by a young woman left her mot… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo

2. Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez

By: Philip Carlo

4.02

Format: 592 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The shocking true story behind the serial killer case that inspired the hit Netflix series! Pain… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer by Michael Griesbach

3. Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

By: Michael Griesbach

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murd… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Big Cherry Holler (Big Stone Gap, #2)

By: Adriana Trigiani

3.87

Format: 237 pages,

It has been eight years since pharmacist and longtime spinster Ave Maria Mulligan married. What she… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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6. The Anatomy of Evil

By: Otto F. Kernberg , Michael H. Stone

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7. Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast A Chilling Biography

By: Simon Wells

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Forty years after the Manson Family murders, this is the definitive account of the crimes that shoc… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars by Lisa Pulitzer, Juan Martínez

8. Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Juan Martínez

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Cases That Haunt Us (Lisa Drew Books)

By: None , Mark Olshaker

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Haunting of Ashburn House

By: Darcy Coates

3.95

Format: None pages,

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11. Shattered

By: Kathryn Casey

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

"Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today." --Ann Rule With true crime classics li… 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. Dark Harvest

By: Norman Partridge

4.02

Format: 982 pages,

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and named one of the 100 Best Novels of 2006 by Publishers Weekly, … read more

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15. Bastard Out of Carolina

By: Dorothy Allison

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Ruth Anne "Bone" Boatwright, an illegitimate young girl, dreams of escaping her Greenville County, … read more

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16. Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion

By: None , None

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. … read more

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17. JonBenet: Inside the Ramsey Murder Investigation

By: Don Davis , Steve Thomas

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Finally, the information you've been waiting for: who really killed JonBenet? Perhaps the most comp… read more

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18. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

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  • audiobook
"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

Cover of Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter

20. Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

By: Harold Schechter

3.76

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. When I Was You

By: Amber Garza

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Sve je počelo jednog običnog jesenjeg jutra, kada je Keli Medina primila poziv pedijatra svog sina,… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings by William H. Reid

23. A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings

By: William H. Reid

3.89

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue by John Glatt

24. The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

By: John Glatt

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Tur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

25. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas

4.15

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I miss my dog,"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

Cover of The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

26. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

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

27. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival by Spencer Schneider

28. Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

By: Spencer Schneider

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They took an oath of absolute secrecy and lived in a covert world in plain sight. “It didn’t loo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was a member of the Gans group for over 20 years. I didn't realize it was really a cult until I took the step, out the door. Ironically, that's when I finally felt and tasted the very freedom that …"

-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

"...There were dozens of construction projects where members were coerced into working in dangerous conditions for free...We were paying for the privilege of being forced to build for Sharon and other…"

-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

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29. Doomsday Cults: The Devil's Hostages

By: Alan R. Warren

3.66

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult by Susan Ashline

30. Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult

By: Susan Ashline

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty by Giancarlo Granda

31. Off the Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty

By: Giancarlo Granda

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Giancarlo Granda finally reveals the truth about his relationship with Becki Falwell and her husban… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Jeremy Grimaldi

3.45

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4.02

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Indefensible: The Missing Truth about Steven Avery, Teresa Halbach, and Making a Murderer

Michael Griesbach

3.55

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3.64

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Laurah Norton

3.87

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4.22

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John Coston

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