In addition to the books and articles listed here, many of the authors noted have items that appear on the Jonestown website. These authors are indicated by links to their articles.<\/p>\n
Barbour, Kathryn<\/a>. Who Died<\/em>. Niles, OH: Katbard Publishing, 2015. Review<\/a> by Craig Foreman.<\/p>\n Brailey, Jeffrey<\/a>. The Ghosts of November: Memoirs of an Outsider Who Witnessed the Carnage at Jonestown, Guyana<\/em>. San Antonio, TX: J & J Publishers, 1998. (The entirety of the book also appears here<\/a>. Mr. Brailey maintained a blog \u2013 also named The Ghosts of November<\/em><\/a> \u2013 between 2007 and 2008.)<\/p>\n Feinsod, Ethan. Awake in a Nightmare: Jonestown the Only Eyewitness Account<\/a>.<\/i> New York: W. W. Norton, 1981. (Information provided by Odell Rhodes.)<\/p>\n Jones, H.J.\u00a0Jonestown: An American Family Tragedy<\/em><\/a>. Traverse City, MI: Mission Point Press, 2023. See reviews by Judy Bebelaar<\/a> and Katherine Hill<\/a>. <\/p>\n Kahalas, Laurie Efrein.<\/a> Snake Dance: Unravelling the Mysteries of Jonestown<\/em>. New York: Red Robin Press, 1998.<\/p>\n Kerns, Phil and Doug Wead. Peoples Temple, Peoples Tomb<\/a><\/em>. Plainfield, NJ: Logos International, 1979. <\/p>\n Klineman, George and Sherman Butler, and David Conn<\/a>. The Cult that Died: The Tragedy of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple<\/i><\/a>. New York: G. P. Putnam\u2019s Sons, 1980.<\/p>\n Kohl, Laura Johnston<\/a>. Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look<\/a><\/em>. New York: iUniverse, 2010. (Author\u2019s description of book appears here<\/a>. The iUniverse description of the book appears here<\/a>. A review on Amazon.com appears here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Krause, Charles A., with Laurence M. Stern, Richard Harwood and the staff of the Washington Post<\/em>. Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account<\/i><\/a>. New York: Berkley Publishing, 1978.<\/p>\n Lane, Mark. Citizen Lane<\/em>. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012. Review<\/a> by Matthew Thomas Farrell.<\/p>\n _____. The Strongest Poison<\/em><\/a>. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1980; The Lane Group, LLC (2014). Review<\/a> by Matthew Thomas Farrell.<\/p>\n Layton, Deborah<\/a>. Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor\u2019s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple<\/em>. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.<\/p>\n Mills, Jeannie. Six Years with God: Life Inside Reverend Jim Jones\u2019s Peoples Temple<\/i><\/a>. New York: A&W Publishers, 1979.<\/p>\n Moore, Rebecca<\/a>. In Defense of Peoples Temple<\/em><\/a>. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.<\/p>\n _____. The Jonestown Letters: Correspondence of the Moore Family 1970\u20131985<\/em><\/a>. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.<\/p>\n Smith, Eugene<\/a>. Back to the World: A Life after Jonestown<\/em><\/a>. Fort Worth, TX: TCU Press, 2021. [Editor’s note<\/strong>: See reviews by darlene anita scott<\/a> and Rev. Richard Lawrence<\/a>.]<\/p>\n Stoen, Timothy Oliver<\/a>. Marked For Death: My War With Jim Jones the Devil of Jonestown<\/em>. North Charleston, SC: CreativeSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. [Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: This book was reissued as Love Them to Death<\/a><\/em> in March 2017. See reviews by John R. Hall<\/a> and Matthew Thomas Farrell<\/a>.]<\/p>\n Thielmann, Bonnie, with Dean Merrill. The Broken God<\/em><\/a>. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1979.<\/p>\n Thrash, Catherine (Hyacinth), as told to Marian K. Towne. The Onliest One Alive: Surviving Jonestown, Guyana<\/em><\/a>. Indianapolis: Marian K. Towne, 1995.<\/p>\n Wagner-Wilson, Leslie<\/a>. Slavery of Faith The Untold Story of the Peoples Temple from the Eyes of a Thirteen Year old, her Escape from Jonestown at 21 and Life 30 Years Later<\/em>. New York: iUniverse, 2009. (Author\u2019s description of book appears here<\/a>. A review appears here<\/a>. Other reviews at Amazon.com appear here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Wooden, Kenneth. The Children of Jonestown<\/em><\/a>. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. (Cites Stanley Clayton extensively.)<\/p>\n