9 must-read cults books like Lovingly Abused by Heather Grace Heath

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Lovingly Abused

By: Heather Grace Heath

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In this highly relevant memoir, blending raw honesty and humor, Heather Heath's story begins with h…

If you liked the cults plot in Lovingly Abused by Heather Grace Heath , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. 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

Similar categories in Rebecca Musser's The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

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2. Counting the Cost

By: Jill Duggar

4.06

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family… read more

Similar categories in Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

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3. P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever

By: Raj Haldar

4.26

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Let's get real—the English language is bizarre. A might be for apple, but it's also for aisle and a… read more

Similar categories in Raj Haldar's P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
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4. The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

By: Beth Allison Barr

4.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, an… read more

Similar categories in Beth Allison Barr's The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Glorifying the past because we like the story better isn't history; it's propaganda."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"When we differentiate women because of their sex, we objectify them and deny them their humanity."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Like racism, patriarchy is a shapeshifter—conforming to each new era, looking as if it has always belonged."

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

"Historically, one of the greatest problems for women is that we do not remember our past and we do not work together to change our future. We do not stand together. But what if we did?"

-Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

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5. 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 Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir
"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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6. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

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7. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

Similar categories in Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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9. 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

Similar categories in Monica Potts's The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"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

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10. Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

By: Sarah Berman

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more sec… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Berman's Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cults
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11. Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

By: Julia Shaw

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decade… read more

Similar categories in Julia Shaw's Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

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12. Lay Your Body Down

By: Amy Suiter Clarke

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poiso… read more

Similar categories in Amy Suiter Clarke's Lay Your Body Down book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • religion
  • cults
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13. Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

By: Jessica Willis Fisher

4.52

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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15. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

By: Rachel Monroe

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Monroe's Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"

-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

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16. Heretic: A Memoir

By: Jeanna Kadlec

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A memoir of leaving the Evangelical church, reckoning with religious trauma while also interrogatin… read more

Similar categories in Jeanna Kadlec's Heretic: A Memoir book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir
"...Mary Lambert is singing "Love is patient, love is kind" from 1 Corinthians 13 over and over, repeating "Not crying on Sundays," and I am gone, head fully turned and staring out the car window, try…"

-Jeanna Kadlec, Heretic: A Memoir

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17. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power

By: Rose Hackman

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ An urgent look at emotional labor ....Hackman’s words reveal the agency of women is still possibl… read more

Similar categories in Rose Hackman's Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
Cover of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

19. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

Similar categories in Cait West's Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Lovingly Abused

By: Heather Grace Heath

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In this highly relevant memoir, blending raw honesty and humor, Heather Heath's story begins with h… read more

Similar categories in Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused book and Heather Grace Heath's Lovingly Abused

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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21. Growing Up IFB: Reflections on the Toxic Environment of the Independent Baptist Movement

By: Jonathan Grisham

4.25

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

Here are some reflections on the nature of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement. This book … read more

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