It can be fiction or nonfiction. I have read and enjoyed both Last Days by Brian Evenson and The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper, but I want more. So give me all your culty recs! by superpalien Related: Literaturre from Ireland/U.K. Books where unsettling/new/unexpected customs and tribal groups emerge Classics/contemporary fiction from the German speaking region Books with a ocean setting (beach town, elements of surfing/free diving/ whales would be cool! ) A book that will blow my mind
dddg on October 27, 2025 12:40 am [Thirty-Seven](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33671444) by Peter Stenson
Unable_Dinner_6937 on October 27, 2025 12:52 am When Prophecy Fails (1956) is a classic. Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment (2009)
BernardFerguson1944 on October 27, 2025 12:54 am *The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria* by David Pratten.
Crustyfae on October 27, 2025 1:04 am The Sound of Gravel- Ruthie Wariner Uncultured- Daniella Mestyanek Young Both memoirs of growing up in a cult.
papercranium on October 27, 2025 1:06 am The Unworthy, but be warned that it’s got some seriously gruesome body horror in there.
Rd1796 on October 27, 2025 1:07 am have you read “under the banner of heaven” by jon krakauer? it’s about mormon fundamentalists and kept me up all night reading.
nowherian_ on October 27, 2025 1:07 am A funny book about cults is “Sure I’ll Join Your Cult” by Maria Bamford.
BolenaLovesBroadway on October 27, 2025 1:14 am Seconding Jeff Guinn’s Jonestown book, also would recommend Manson by him A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres Raven by Tim Reiterman Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
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*Under the Banner of Heaven* -Jon Krakauer
[Thirty-Seven](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33671444) by Peter Stenson
Educated
The road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn.
The Girls by Emma Cline
Nonfiction. Cultish by Amanda Montell
When Prophecy Fails (1956) is a classic.
Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment (2009)
*The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria* by David Pratten.
The Sound of Gravel- Ruthie Wariner
Uncultured- Daniella Mestyanek Young
Both memoirs of growing up in a cult.
The Unworthy, but be warned that it’s got some seriously gruesome body horror in there.
The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
have you read “under the banner of heaven” by jon krakauer? it’s about mormon fundamentalists and kept me up all night reading.
A funny book about cults is “Sure I’ll Join Your Cult” by Maria Bamford.
The Once Yellow House by Gemma Amor
The Girls by Emma Cline
Seconding Jeff Guinn’s Jonestown book, also would recommend Manson by him
A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
Raven by Tim Reiterman
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
Going Clear by Lawrence Wright