People Who Have Left Cults or Religious Fundamentalism (Memoirs & Biographies)

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Tears of the Silenced
Tears of the Silenced 4.28 avg rating — 25,858 ratings
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Adrift on a Sea of Belief: A Guide for Walkaway-Witnesses in Finding God
Adrift on a Sea of Belief: A Guide for Walkaway-Witnesses in Finding God 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult 3.87 avg rating — 9,944 ratings
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The Mormon Cult: A Former Missionary Reveals the Secrets of Mormon Mind Control
The Mormon Cult: A Former Missionary Reveals the Secrets of Mormon Mind Control 3.68 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Fifty Years in Polygamy: Big Secrets and Little White Lies
Fifty Years in Polygamy: Big Secrets and Little White Lies 3.68 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement
The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement 3.65 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood 4.11 avg rating — 1,069 ratings
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Witness Tampering: My Story of Coming to Christ out of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Witness Tampering: My Story of Coming to Christ out of Jehovah’s Witnesses 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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All Who Go Do Not Return
All Who Go Do Not Return 4.29 avg rating — 6,298 ratings
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Woman Redeemed
Woman Redeemed really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son (Deep South Books)
Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son (Deep South Books) 4.08 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA
Agent Storm: My Life Inside al Qaeda and the CIA 4.02 avg rating — 1,949 ratings
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More Than I Can Chew: Stories From an Ex Jehovah's Witness
More Than I Can Chew: Stories From an Ex Jehovah's Witness 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Pattern of the Double-Bind in Mormonism
The Pattern of the Double-Bind in Mormonism 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Slavery of Faith
Slavery of Faith 3.73 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Binky Brown meets The Holy Virgin Mary
Binky Brown meets The Holy Virgin Mary 3.82 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Trauma in the Pews: The Impact on Faith and Spiritual Practices
Trauma in the Pews: The Impact on Faith and Spiritual Practices 4.65 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations With Inactive Mormons
Leaving the Fold: Candid Conversations With Inactive Mormons 3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me 3.34 avg rating — 3,820 ratings
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Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple
Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Cult Trip: Inside the world of Coercion and Control
Cult Trip: Inside the world of Coercion and Control 3.84 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Stories from Jonestown
Stories from Jonestown 4.06 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Fear to Freedom: Stories of Triumph After Leaving a High Control Religion
Fear to Freedom: Stories of Triumph After Leaving a High Control Religion
by: Jack Grey
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Two Tickets To Paradise: From Cult to Comedy
Two Tickets To Paradise: From Cult to Comedy 4.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy: A Novel
Torn by God: A Family's Struggle with Polygamy: A Novel 3.58 avg rating — 108 ratings
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Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church
Girl on a Wire: Walking the Line Between Faith and Freedom in the Westboro Baptist Church 3.74 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy
Secrets and Wives: The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy 3.87 avg rating — 692 ratings
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Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy
Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy 3.43 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith
Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister's Wife Examines Faith 3.84 avg rating — 228 ratings
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The Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape from Modern Day Polygamy
The Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape from Modern Day Polygamy 3.21 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman's Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult
Out of the Cocoon: A Young Woman's Courageous Flight from the Grip of a Religious Cult 3.47 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Property: The True Story of a Polygamous Church Wife
Property: The True Story of a Polygamous Church Wife 3.24 avg rating — 233 ratings
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Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult
Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,883 ratings
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Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family
Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family 3.63 avg rating — 222 ratings
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God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation
God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation 3.65 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home
by: Leah Lax
3.97 avg rating — 1,525 ratings
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Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir
Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir 3.74 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
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Rolling Down Black Stockings: A Passage Out of the Old Order Mennonite Religion
Rolling Down Black Stockings: A Passage Out of the Old Order Mennonite Religion 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses
The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses 4.11 avg rating — 289 ratings
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This Is Not a Love Story
This Is Not a Love Story 3.86 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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Delusion: Growing Up in an Amish Jewish Cult
Delusion: Growing Up in an Amish Jewish Cult 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion 3.87 avg rating — 9,538 ratings
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Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church
Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church 3.56 avg rating — 4,146 ratings
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Deception: Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult
Deception: Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Deliverance: Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult
Deliverance: Growing Up in an Amish-Jewish Cult 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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My Billion Year Contract
My Billion Year Contract 3.72 avg rating — 239 ratings
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today 3.94 avg rating — 3,618 ratings
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Closing The Gate
Closing The Gate 3.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Exodus: A Memoir
Exodus: A Memoir 3.47 avg rating — 4,185 ratings
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Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology
Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology 4.04 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Jonestown Survivor: An Insider's Look
Jonestown Survivor: An Insider's Look 3.25 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Distant Sisters: The Women I Left Behind
Distant Sisters: The Women I Left Behind 3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Escape: My Lifelong War Against Cults
Escape: My Lifelong War Against Cults 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story
A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story 3.70 avg rating — 3,595 ratings
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Watch How We Walk
Watch How We Walk 3.66 avg rating — 546 ratings
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I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness 3.57 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Attic Alone: An Ex-Jehovah's Witness Finds the Church
Attic Alone: An Ex-Jehovah's Witness Finds the Church 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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