Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church

8 best books like Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church (Lauren Drain): Escape, Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs, Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation Into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult, I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult, Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future, The Heavy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Diet—a Memoir

Escape

Author	Carolyn Jessop
ISBN	0767927567

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.

When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man...

Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

Author

Megan Phelps-Roper

As featured on the BBC documentary, 'The Most Hated Family in America' it was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world...

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Author	Elissa Wall
ISBN	0061628018

Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking,...

Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation Into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

Author

Sam Brower

From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a favßade...

Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult

Author	Rachel Jeffs
ISBN	0062692828

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.

Born into the Fundamentalist...

I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult

Author	Jocelyn R. Zichterman
ISBN	1250026261

A compelling memoir and investigation into the Independent Fundamental Baptist church and its shocking history of religious abuse.
  
Jocelyn Zichterman was born, raised, married into, and finally, with her family, fled the Independent Fundamental Baptist church. Founded by...

Girl at the End of the World: My Escape from Fundamentalism in Search of Faith with a Future

Author	Elizabeth Esther
ISBN	0307731871

I was raised in a homegrown, fundamentalist Christian group—which is just a shorthand way of saying I’m classically trained in apocalyptic stockpiling, street preaching, and the King James Version of the Bible. I know hundreds of obscure nineteenth-century hymns by heart and have such razor...

The Heavy: A Mother, a Daughter, a Diet—a Memoir

Author	Dara-Lynn Weiss
ISBN	0345541340

For readers of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Bringing Up Bebe, a mother’s unflinching memoir about helping her seven year-old daughter lose weight, and the challenges of modern parenting.
 
When a doctor pronounced Dara-Lynn Weiss’s daughter Bea obese at age seven, the mother...