Books like 27th Wife by Irving Wallace

David Ebershoff’s New York Times bestseller blends 19th‑century Mormon history with a contemporary Utah murder mystery, tracing the violent legacy of polygamy through the lives of Ann Eliza Young and a modern seeker of truth.

Elissa Wall narrates her escape from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter‑Day Saints and her pivotal testimony against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, exposing abuse, forced marriage, and church control.

Brent W. Jeffs tells the harrowing story of his escape from the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑Day Saints and the struggle many ex‑members face as "lost boys" re‑entering the world.

Ruth Wariner, the 39th of 42 siblings, chronicles her childhood in a polygamist community on a Mexican farm and her eventual search for freedom between Mexico and the United States.

Rachel Jeffs recounts her experiences growing up in the FLDS Church, detailing the patriarchal, abusive environment shaped by sister wives and domineering men while exploring her father's enduring influence.

Life for Irene Spencer was a series of devastating disappointments and hardships. Irene's first book, Shattered Dreams, is the staggering chronicle of herstruggle to provide for her children in abject poverty and feelings of abandonment each time her husband left to be with one of his other wives. Irene was raised to believe polygamy was the way of life necessary for her ticket to heaven. The hard knocks of her environment were just the beginning of Irene's shocking tale. Insanity ran rampant in her husband's family and was the source of inconceivable events that unfolded throughout Irene's adult life. CULT INSANITY takes readers deeper into her story to uncover the outrageous behavior of her brother-in-law Ervil -- a self-proclaimed prophet who determined he was called to set the house of God in order -- and how he terrorized their colony. Claiming to be God's avenger and to have a license to kill in the name of God, Ervil ordered the murders of friends and family members, eliminating all those who challenged his authority. For those who were gripped by Shattered Dreams, the rest of the story will blow them away. CULT INSANITY is a riveting, terrifying memoir of polygamist life under the tyranny of a madman.

Anna LeBaron recounts a childhood spent on the run from the FBI as the daughter of polygamist murderer Ervil LeBaron, exploring the terror, loneliness, and search for belonging that shaped her life.