12 best-selling true crime books like Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss

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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…

If you liked the true crime plot in Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Lauren Drain

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

NOW A NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERYou've likely heard of the WestboroBaptistChurch. Perhaps you've seen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
  • cults

2. 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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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. Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me

By: Ron Miscavige , Dan Koon

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The only book to examine the origins of Scientology's current leader, RUTHLESS tells the revealing … read more

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5. Daughter of Gloriavale: My life in a Religious Cult

By: None

3.99

Format: 244 pages,

In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the cult, with its rigid rul… read more

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6. Lost Boy

By: Maia Szalavitz , Brent W. Jeffs

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can beco… read more

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7. Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

By: Jon Krakauer , Sam Brower

4.01

Format: 532 pages,

From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the… read more

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8. The Day Eva Dugan Died: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you ready for a gripping true crime story that will keep you on the edge of your seat? Then loo… read more

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

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"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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11. Deadly Goals: The True Story of an All-American Football Hero Who Stalked and Murdered

By: Wilt Browning

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping true story of a small town football hero and the murder he almost got away with. A st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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12. Scarred

By: Sarah Edmondson

3.94

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

"'Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table, acutel… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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

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14. A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

By: Mike Rinder

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powe… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"The fear of psychiatry is one of the hardest ideas to shake when you escape from the mind-prison."

-Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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15. 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
  • true crime
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16. Murder Outside the Back Door

By: John Tommasi

4.00

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Greed, arrogance and lust led Robert Anderson to kill his wife of nearly twenty years. He was a pil… read more

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  • crime
  • true crime
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17. Under a Cold Moon: A Chronicle of an Unrequited Killer

By: Tony H. Latham

4.25

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Under a Cold Moon is the extraordinary true story of a man that devasted two worlds. A killer that … read more

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18. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children

By: Wallace Jeffs

4.21

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011, Wallace rebelled against… read more

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  • biography
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
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20. Disobedient Women: How a Small Group of Faithful Women Exposed Abuse, Brought Down Powerful Pastors, and Ignited an Evangelical Reckoning

By: Sarah Stankorb

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Sarah Stankorb outlines how access to the internet—its networks, freedom of expression, … read more

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  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Revelation: A Memoir of Deep Family Secrets, Discovery, and Identity by Richard Gary Kaye

21. Revelation: A Memoir of Deep Family Secrets, Discovery, and Identity

By: Richard Gary Kaye

4.10

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Richard (Rick) Gary Kaye’s intimate memoir is a riveting story about a devastating family secret hi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM

By: Toni Natalie

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As seen in the HBO docuseries THE A jaw-dropping insider look into the world of the so-called "Hol… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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

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  • cult classics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Locked in: My Imprisoned Years in a Destructive Cult

By: John Huddle

3.85

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Locked in pulls back the thick curtain holding many of the secrets inside Word of Faith Fellowship.… read more

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  • cult classics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cults
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28. Shattered Justice: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders

By: J.D. Morrison

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Shattered Justice, bearing the title chosen by Paul Smith (Sheriff of Mayes County, OK, from 1981 t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Deceived: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult by Michael R King

29. Deceived: An Investigative Memoir of the Zion Society Cult

By: Michael R King

4.26

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

“You want to read this book. It is chilling and compelling at the same time.” – Dr. Phil McGraw. “I… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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30. 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
Cover of Reflections and Memories of An Amish Misfit: "My therapist says that’s not true, but I digress" by Mary Byler

31. Reflections and Memories of An Amish Misfit: "My therapist says that’s not true, but I digress"

By: Mary Byler

4.25

Format: 155 pages, Kindle Edition

If you believe that all Amish people are truly good and should never be criticized for anything, th… read more

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  • nonfiction

9 best-selling audiobook books like Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss

Transform Your Habits

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

Mitch Weiss

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Uncultured: A Memoir

Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Scarred

Sarah Edmondson

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Jeff Guinn

4.16

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18 Best nonfiction books like Reflections and Memories of An Amish Misfit: "My therapist says that’s not true, but I digress" by Mary Byler

Transform Your Habits

Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape

Emma Gingerich

3.89

Transform Your Habits

How Not to Kill Your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged

Veronica Peerless

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Amish Wife

Gregg Olsen

3.49

Transform Your Habits

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

Tom J. Bross

4.25

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