A Basic Cult Library
3. 
Opening Minds: The Secret World of Manipulation, Undue Influence and Brainwashing
by:
Jon Atack
4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings 
5. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,462 ratings 
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Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
by:
Steven Hassan
4.42 avg rating — 1,517 ratings 9. 
The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by:
Carlo Ginzburg
4.01 avg rating — 1,230 ratings 10. 
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The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
by:
John Sweeney
3.85 avg rating — 1,639 ratings 
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China 4.15 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry 3.76 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960 4.06 avg rating — 83 ratings
18. 
Beyond Belief: Cults, Healers, Mystics and Gurus-Why We Believe
by:
Arthur Janov
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
by:
Kevin Cook
3.87 avg rating — 1,923 ratings 
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Take Back Your Life: Recovering From Cults & Abusive Relationships
by:
Janja Lalich
4.38 avg rating — 199 ratings 25. 
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
by:
Dan Barker
3.97 avg rating — 7,253 ratings 26. 
Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change
by:
Flo Conway
4.04 avg rating — 85 ratings 27. 
The Wrong Way Home: Uncovering the Patterns of Cult Behavior in American Society 4.11 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
by:
Jerald Walker
3.60 avg rating — 430 ratings 29. 
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Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki
by:
Martin Cate
4.57 avg rating — 1,419 ratings 
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They Shall Take Up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-Handling Cult
by:
Weston La Barre
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 33. 
Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History
by:
Philip Jenkins
3.67 avg rating — 115 ratings 34. 
Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs
by:
Steven Hassan
4.21 avg rating — 301 ratings 34. 
Pinball Wizards: Jackpots, Drains, and the Cult of the Silver Ball
by:
Adam Ruben
4.19 avg rating — 149 ratings 36. 
Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment
by:
Janet Heimlich
4.02 avg rating — 155 ratings 
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by:
Eric Hoffer
4.20 avg rating — 11,544 ratings 39. 
Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America
by:
Peter Washington
3.67 avg rating — 237 ratings 40. 
Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse 4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
by:
Barbara Weisberg
3.60 avg rating — 668 ratings 42. 
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History 3.54 avg rating — 2,364 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings 
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The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing 4.22 avg rating — 891 ratings
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
by:
Ron Miscavige
3.34 avg rating — 3,820 ratings 46. 
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 3.99 avg rating — 1,201 ratings
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape 3.77 avg rating — 40,867 ratings
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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
by:
Lyn Millner
3.98 avg rating — 162 ratings 52. 
Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out
by:
Rick Alan Ross
4.02 avg rating — 361 ratings 52. 
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.18 avg rating — 1,384 ratings 54. 
Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brain-Washing
by:
William Sargant
3.99 avg rating — 198 ratings 54. 
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group 3.85 avg rating — 2,908 ratings
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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience
by:
Sally L. Satel
3.67 avg rating — 660 ratings 
58. 
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
by:
Alexandra Stein
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 475 ratings 
60. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings 61. 
Cracking the Cult Code for Therapists: What Every Cult Victim Wants Their Therapist to Know
by:
Bonnie Zieman
4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings 