Mormons


Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Educated
The 19th Wife
Escape
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
The Sound of Gravel
The Lonely Polygamist
Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
I'm Glad My Mom Died
For The Strength of The Hills by Hiram J. BertochThe Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.Joseph Smith by Richard L. BushmanMormonism by Richard L. BushmanUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Books about Mormons
40 books — 37 voters
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerDesert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Great Brain by John D. FitzgeraldThe Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Books Set in Utah
300 books — 130 voters

The Backslider by Levi S. PetersonUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerThe Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna BrooksThe Scholar of Moab by Steven L. PeckThe New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
Alternative Mormon Literature
83 books — 48 voters
Desert Solitaire by Edward AbbeyThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward AbbeySkinwalkers by Tony HillermanDeath Comes for the Archbishop by Willa CatherThe Milagro Beanfield War by John     Nichols
Four Corners Country
330 books — 139 voters

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerMassacre at Mountain Meadows by Ronald W. WalkerThe Gathering of Zion by Wallace StegnerA House Full of Females by Laurel Thatcher UlrichGreat Salt Lake Biology by Bonnie K. Baxter
Utah cultural and natural issues
92 books — 3 voters
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHawaii by James A. Michener
Missionaries in Fiction
185 books — 20 voters

Eric Overby
The early Christians took this story and used it as the backdrop for the doctrine of ‘The Trinity.’ For me, though, this myth has nothing to do with the belief in the father, son, and holy spirit. Rublev’s hospitality icon is important to me because by receiving the three strangers, Abraham and Sarah further their own narrative. The story of the strangers gets intertwined with Abraham and Sarah and they learn something new about themselves. This icon is a reminder to me to be welcoming and hosp ...more
Eric Overby

Johnson evidently did not want it said that they had murdered the people for their property, but the leaders could not stand to let so much be destroyed. The wagons and their loads, even the bloody clothes, were taken to Cedar City, stored in the Tithing Office, and later sold at auction.
Juanita Brooks, The Mountain Meadows Massacre

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