Cults and conspiracism: Cult studies, memoirs, fiction
2. 
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,453 ratings 
6. 
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
by:
Mike Rinder
4.30 avg rating — 7,408 ratings 
8. 
Food Cults: How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet (Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy)
by:
Kima Cargill
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 9. 
Captive Hearts, Captive Minds : Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Other Abusive Relationships 4.30 avg rating — 46 ratings
12. 
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults
by:
Mitch Weiss
4.14 avg rating — 3,782 ratings 13. 
14. 
Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace 3.97 avg rating — 348 ratings
15. 
Doomsday Cult: A Study Of Conversion, Proselytization, And Maintenance Of Faith
by:
John Lofland
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings 16. 
Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
by:
Kathryn Joyce
3.78 avg rating — 1,556 ratings 
18. 
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
by:
Mike Rothschild
3.83 avg rating — 3,151 ratings 19. 
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
by:
Linda Kay Klein
4.17 avg rating — 6,081 ratings 20. 
Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
by:
Max Cutler
3.56 avg rating — 2,827 ratings 21. 
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
by:
Gideon Rachman
4.05 avg rating — 1,342 ratings 22. 
Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo History
by:
Ronald H. Fritze
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 23. 
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
by:
Alexandra Stein
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 475 ratings 24. 
The Program: Inside the Mind of Keith Raniere and the Rise and Fall of NXIVM
by:
Toni Natalie
3.72 avg rating — 1,330 ratings 25. 
Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
by:
Lauren Drain
3.56 avg rating — 4,146 ratings 26. 
fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
by:
Lucia Greenhouse
3.90 avg rating — 2,826 ratings 27. 
Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions
by:
Cami Ostman
3.47 avg rating — 451 ratings 
29. 
Perfectly Clear: Escaping Scientology and Fighting for the Woman I Love
by:
Michelle LeClair
3.82 avg rating — 595 ratings 30. 
31. 
32. 
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
by:
Janet Reitman
3.87 avg rating — 9,538 ratings 33. 
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
by:
Ron Miscavige
3.34 avg rating — 3,820 ratings 
35. 
Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm 3.71 avg rating — 2,182 ratings
36. 
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings 37. 
The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
by:
John Sweeney
3.85 avg rating — 1,639 ratings 
39. 
Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
by:
Libby Phelps
3.74 avg rating — 630 ratings 40. 
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape 3.77 avg rating — 40,865 ratings
42. 
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
by:
Deborah Layton
4.12 avg rating — 3,917 ratings 43. 
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
by:
Kyria Abrahams
3.42 avg rating — 1,823 ratings 44. 
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
by:
Steven Hassan
4.10 avg rating — 3,397 ratings 45. 
46. 
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
by:
Frank Dikötter
3.69 avg rating — 2,637 ratings 47. 
Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs
by:
Steven Hassan
4.21 avg rating — 301 ratings 
50. 
53. 
Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing 3.60 avg rating — 12,842 ratings
54. 
Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
by:
Derek Beres
4.01 avg rating — 1,436 ratings 55. 
58. 
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by:
Kate Bowler
3.80 avg rating — 51,879 ratings 
68. 
Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
by:
Michael Shermer
3.76 avg rating — 629 ratings 69. 
The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning
by:
Peter J. Hotez
3.88 avg rating — 784 ratings 
71. 
Reality Lost: Markets of Attention, Misinformation and Manipulation 4.46 avg rating — 50 ratings
72. 
73. 
The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings
74. 
Democracy and Fake News: Information Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics
by:
Serena Giusti
3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings 75. 
The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine
by:
David Brock
3.84 avg rating — 414 ratings 76. 
Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
by:
Kelly Weill
3.79 avg rating — 1,909 ratings 77. 
Red Pill Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us
by:
David Neiwert
3.87 avg rating — 286 ratings 78. 
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination 3.80 avg rating — 487 ratings
80. 
81. 
Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground
by:
Jonathan Kay
3.27 avg rating — 604 ratings 82. 
How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial 3.50 avg rating — 1,623 ratings
83. 
Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories
by:
Rob Brotherton
3.87 avg rating — 1,497 ratings 84. 
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
by:
Yochai Benkler
4.14 avg rating — 378 ratings 85. 
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
by:
Noam Chomsky
4.13 avg rating — 1,542 ratings 
87. 
Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity 3.98 avg rating — 835 ratings
88. 
The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
by:
Will Storr
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,615 ratings 89. 
Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It
by:
Richard L. Hasen
3.51 avg rating — 101 ratings 
