People Who Have Left Cults or Religious Fundamentalism (Memoirs & Biographies)
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
by:
Deborah Feldman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 67,128 ratings 
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape 3.77 avg rating — 40,861 ratings
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by:
Elissa Wall
3.95 avg rating — 31,195 ratings 10. 
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
by:
Rebecca Musser
4.05 avg rating — 12,884 ratings 
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Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons
by:
Carolyn Jessop
3.84 avg rating — 5,227 ratings 
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by:
Lawrence Wright
4.04 avg rating — 44,512 ratings 15. 
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
by:
Marjane Satrapi
4.27 avg rating — 224,925 ratings 16. 
Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future
by:
Elizabeth Esther
4.02 avg rating — 2,150 ratings 17. 
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 18. 
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales from a Jehovah's Witness Upbringing
by:
Kyria Abrahams
3.41 avg rating — 1,822 ratings 19. 
Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge
by:
Don Lattin
3.40 avg rating — 735 ratings 20. 
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
by:
Julia Scheeres
4.01 avg rating — 5,116 ratings 21. 
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I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult 4.06 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
by:
Martha N. Beck
3.88 avg rating — 4,943 ratings 27. 
Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood
by:
Leah Vincent
3.70 avg rating — 2,994 ratings 
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All Who Believed: A Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes
by:
Tamara Mathieu
4.42 avg rating — 76 ratings 
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Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
by:
Frank Schaeffer
3.68 avg rating — 2,237 ratings 
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I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage
by:
Mary-Ann Kirkby
3.76 avg rating — 4,467 ratings 37. 
Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
by:
Lauren Drain
3.56 avg rating — 4,146 ratings 38. 
fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science
by:
Lucia Greenhouse
3.90 avg rating — 2,826 ratings 39. 
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Free to Be Tegan: Free from the cult...to find love, to be herself
by:
Mary Grand
4.25 avg rating — 154 ratings 41. 
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Through the Kaleidoscope: How Exploring Cell Biology Transforms My Relationship with God 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
43. 
This Little Light: Beyond a Baptist Preacher Predator and His Gang
by:
Christa Brown
4.35 avg rating — 62 ratings 43. 
Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices 4.23 avg rating — 17,336 ratings
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Cult Insanity: A Memoir of Polygamy, Prophets, and Blood Atonement
by:
Irene Spencer
3.67 avg rating — 1,655 ratings 
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Heaven's Harlots: My Fifteen Years as a Sacred Prostitute in the Children of God Cult
by:
Miriam Williams
3.47 avg rating — 495 ratings 
57. 
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
by:
Mike Rinder
4.30 avg rating — 7,407 ratings 
59. 
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
by:
Donald Miller
3.90 avg rating — 117,669 ratings 
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Journey to God's House: An Inside Story of Life at the World Headquarters of Jehovah's Witnesses in the 1980s
by:
Brock Talon
3.91 avg rating — 80 ratings 
59. 
In the Shadow of the Moons: My Life in the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Family
by:
Nansook Hong
3.79 avg rating — 273 ratings 
59. 
Der Satan schläft nie: Mein Leben bei den Zwölf Stämmen
by:
Robert Pleyer
3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings 59. 
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Cult Sister: My decade in one of the world's most secretive sects
by:
Lesley Smailes
3.53 avg rating — 117 ratings 59. 
Christian Warrior Women: A Guide to Taking Back Your Faith, Family & Future (Christian Warrior Women Series Book 1)
by:
Lisa Hawkins
4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings 59. 
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
by:
Scott McClellan
3.25 avg rating — 1,706 ratings 
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Nine Lives: My time as the MI6's top spy inside al-Qaeda
by:
Aimen Dean
4.34 avg rating — 1,469 ratings 59. 
Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over
by:
Janja Lalich
4.05 avg rating — 176 ratings 59. 
Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace
by:
Katie Langston
4.25 avg rating — 99 ratings 59. 
Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
by:
Sands Hall
3.54 avg rating — 613 ratings 59. 
Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam
by:
Yasmine Mohammed
4.34 avg rating — 2,418 ratings 59. 
Where's Jimmy?: A Lifetime Search for a Little Boy's Soul and the Discovery of My Own
by:
Kathy Jefford
4.76 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family
by:
Andrew Himes
3.75 avg rating — 91 ratings 
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Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker
by:
Paulo Bitencourt
4.41 avg rating — 46 ratings 91. 
Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions
by:
Cami Ostman
3.47 avg rating — 451 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 — 428 ratings 91. 
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
by:
Amber Scorah
3.81 avg rating — 4,986 ratings 91. 
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home
by:
Rhoda Janzen
3.19 avg rating — 32,480 ratings 
