Books like Jonestown by Ryan Roy

A factual account of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple leader whose 1978 Jonestown massacre killed over nine hundred followers in Guyana.

A meticulous investigation into the rise and tragic collapse of Rev. Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple, detailing how a quest for social justice devolved into a mass suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.

Investigates the deaths of the nearly three hundred children who were victims of the mass cyanide poisoning at Jonestown, analyzing the social and political factors that enabled Jones to exercise the power of life and death over the children.

Telling their story, redeeming the demonic, Sutherland makes the sinister and the heartrending inextricable, and the banality of evil spellbinding.

A collection of unfiltered poems that explore Black, womanhood, and lesbian identity in America.

Explores the rise of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple and Charles Manson’s cult, examining their leadership styles, racial and sexual dynamics, and the tragic outcomes of mass suicide and murder.

The agricultural settlement of Jonestown in Guyana, South America, was meant to be a promised land for its inhabitants, the members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple. How then, in November 1978, did 912 people—276 children among them—all lose their lives in the space of a single day there? How could Jonestown become the site of such a massacre? Because cult leader Jim Jones ordered the organized suicide and murder of all his followers. The horror of Jonestown remains the worst cult disaster in United States history. In *Jonestown Massacre: Tragic End of a Cult*, author Gina De Angelis recalls the terrifying events that took place in Guyana on November 18, 1978. Included are personal accounts from survivors and witnesses, along with statements from scholars who examine the roots of this tragedy, along with its legacy.

Revisiting Jonestown examines Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the psychology behind the 1978 mass suicide in Guyana, using prenatal and transgenerational trauma theories to identify patterns in cult death rituals.

Inevitably, the Jonestown tragedy ended in 1978, but its survivors keep living with its fallout: Leigh Fondakowski’s book, built on years of interviewing, reveals how former members of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple processed grief, trauma, and resilience.

A former teen activist who joined the Peoples Temple, Laura Johnston Kohl survived the 1978 Jonestown massacre and later became a teacher, dedicating her life to explaining and healing the tragedy.

Leslie Wagner‑Wilson recounts her escape from the Jonestown massacre and the years of trauma and redemption that followed, offering a vivid account of survival and faith amid the horror of Jim Jones’s cult.