“Must Read” Books on Mormonism and the LDS Church:
- Overview:
- Mormon America: The Power and the Promise (Hardcover), by Richard and Joan Ostling
- The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints, by Leonard J. Arrington (Author), Davis Bitton
- On the 19th Century Church:
- Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism, by Marvin S. Hill
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, by D. Michael Quinn
- On the 20th Century Church:
- David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory Prince
- The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation, by Armand Mauss
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power, by D. Michael Quinn
- Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930, by Thomas G. Alexander
- On Joseph Smith:
- No Man Knows my History: The Life of Joseph Smith, by Fawn Brodie
- Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard Lyman Bushman
- An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins, by Grant Palmer
- Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell, Valeen Tippetts Avery
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, by D. Michael Quinn
- On Polygamy:
- Mormon Polygamy: A History, by Richard S. Van Wagoner
- In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, by Todd Compton
- On Women’s Issues/Feminism:
- Women and Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism, Edited by Maxine Hanks
- Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights, by Martha Sonntag Bradley
- On the Book of Mormon:
- By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, by Terryl L. Givens
- Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church, by Simon Southerton.
- Mountain Meadows Massacre:
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre, by Juanita Brooks
- Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Glen M. Leonard
- On Reconciling Thought and Faith:
- A Thoughtful Faith, Edited by Philip Barlow
- Adventures of a Church Historian, by Leonard Arrington
- The Best of Lowell L. Bennion: Selected Writings, 1928-1988, by Lowell Lindsay Bennion and Eugene England
- Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian, by Mary Lythgoe Bradford
- Religion and The Pursuit of Truth, by Lowell Bennion
- Why the Church is as True as the Gospel, by Eugene England (Author)
- Believing History, by Richard Lyman Bushman, Reid L. Neilson, Jed Woodworth
- Fiction:
- The Backslider, by Levi Peterson
