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What to read after The Possessed by Troy Taylor: 24 titles sharing themes of Personality Disorders, Demonology & Satanism, Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), and Spiritualism, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

Personality Disorders Demonology & Satanism Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Spiritualism Mysticism Psychopathology 19th Century Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) State & Local Body, Mind & Spirit Psychology Self-Help United States Religion History

Top related books to The Possessed

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Suicide & Spirits

Troy Taylor

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Surviving Wounded Knee The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory

David W. Grua

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Psychiatry in Indiana The First 175 Years

Philip M. Coons M. D.

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • Psychopathology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Sundays at Sinai A Jewish Congregation in Chicago

Tobias Brinkmann

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

American Warsaw The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago

Dominic A. Pacyga

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Parading Patriotism Independence Day Celebrations in the Urban Midwest, 1826-1876

Adam Criblez

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Inside the World’s Fair of 1904 Exploring the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Elana V. Fox

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Pioneers The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

David McCullough

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

The Earth Is All That Lasts Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

Mark Lee Gardner

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#10

The Children’s Blizzard

David Laskin

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#11

Over The Earth I Come The Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862

Duane Schultz

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#12

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Three Tenant Families

James Agee

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#13

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#14

Our People are Warlike Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-front Mobilization

Allen Christopher York

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#15

A Touch of Cleveland History Stories from the First 200 Years

Bob Rich

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#16

Valentine T. McGillycuddy Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux

Candy Vyvey Moulton

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#17

The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Erik Larson

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#18

Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850

Malcolm J. Rohrbough

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#19

Westward We Came A Norwegian Immigrant’s Story, 1866-1898

Harold Berg Kildahl

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#20

City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago

Robert G. Spinney

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#21

Chicago’s Great Fire The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

Carl S. Smith

Themes: Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#22

Entertaining Satan Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

John Demos

Themes: Demonology & Satanism • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • State & Local

#23

Cocaine From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920

Joseph F. Spillane

Themes: Psychopathology • 19th Century • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#24

The Occult World

Christopher Partridge

Themes: Demonology & Satanism • Spiritualism • Mysticism

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Possessed by Troy Taylor. Connected by Personality Disorders, Demonology & Satanism, Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). Authors featured include Troy Taylor, David W. Grua, Philip M. Coons M. D., Tobias Brinkmann, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.