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“Indoctrination” is a category for books—both fiction and nonfiction—that investigate how beliefs and behaviors are instilled, enforced, or normalized, often discouraging independent scrutiny. These works examine the mechanics of influence and control (propaganda, repetition, surveillance, peer pressure, charismatic authority) and the institutions that wield them, including governments, schools, religious movements, cults, media, and corporations. The category spans scholarly studies, investigative journalism, memoirs of recruitment and exit, and novels that dramatize manipulation and resistance. Common themes include power, conformity, identity formation, moral agency, radicalization and deradicalization, and the psychological toll of enforced belief, while inviting debate over where education and socialization end and indoctrination begins.

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