Apocalypse Child: A Life in End Times
By: Flor Edwards
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For the first thirteen years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the confines of a religious sect …
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1. 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
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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
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"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
3. Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
By: Kevin Sullivan , None , Gina DeJesus , Mary Jordan , Amanda Berry
4.35
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their… read more
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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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6. The Memory Palace
By: Mira Bartok
3.24
Format: 0 pages,
The Memory Palace is a breathtaking literary memoir about the complex meaning of love, truth, and t… read more
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7. Priestdaddy: A Memoir
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more
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8. 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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9. The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Mark Vonnegut
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '7… read more
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10. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
11. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
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"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
12. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
13. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
By: Jeff Guinn
4.16
Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition
By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more
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"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
14. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
15. 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
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16. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
By: Roseanne Montillo
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more
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17. New Teeth: Stories
By: Simon Rich
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Laugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of hu… read more
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18. 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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19. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
By: Anna Marie Tendler
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more
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20. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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21. Apocalypse Child: A Life in End Times
By: Flor Edwards
3.71
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
For the first thirteen years of her life, Flor Edwards grew up in the confines of a religious sect … read more
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