The most popular cults books of 2023

Books about cults explore closed groups under a magnetic leader. Why people join, how they are controlled and what it takes to leave are told in survivors' memoirs, reporting and tense novels. They are fascinating studies of belief, belonging and manipulation. This list shows the ones first published in 2023.

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Counting the Cost
Cover of Counting the Cost

Counting the Cost

Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase

2023 · 2025 edition

288 pages

Satanism A Reader
Cover of Satanism A Reader

Satanism A Reader

Per Faxneld, Johan Nilsson, Johan Nilsson (Historian of religion)

Published 2023

360 pages

Unsafe Sects
Cover of Unsafe Sects

Unsafe Sects

Roger E. Olson

Published 2023

124 pages