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Jonestown Booklist

 

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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Nonfiction

• Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple
  Author: Layton, Deborah
  Publisher: Anchor $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385489838 Date: 1998
  Kirkus
  A former high-level member of the Peoples Temple--the Jim Jones-led group that made headlines with a mass suicide in Guyana in 1978--tells the riveting story of how she was seduced by one of the most notorious cults in recent memory.
  Updated 10.24.05
• Journey to Nowhere: A New World Tragedy
  Author: Naipaul, Shiva
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 13.95 ISBN: 0671424718 Date: 1981
  Updated 10.24.05
• Raven: The Untold Story of Reverand Jim Jones and His People
  Author: Reiterman, Tom
  Publisher: Dutton $ 17.95 ISBN: 0525241361 Date: 1982
  Updated 10.24.05