This Mormon Life

People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture

The Mormon Church on Trial: Transcript of the Reed Smoot Hearings

Ethan Rarick: Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

James L. Kugel: How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now

The William E. McLellin Papers 1854-1880

Richard L. Bushman: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Bushman's first JS bio.

Richard Lyman Bushman: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Award winning biography from a Columbia University emeritus professor of history.

Dan Vogel: Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
A pious/fraud interpretation from a detailed scholar.

Linda King Newell and Linda Avery: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Great biography of the first wife of JS by two excellent scholars.

Fawn M. Brodie: No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
A seminal classic that began the serious study of JS life.

The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition

The Reader's Book of Mormon (six vol. boxed set)

Terryl L. Givens: By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion

Big Love - The Complete First Season
The HBO series following the lives of modern polygamists in Utah.

B. Carmon Hardy: Doing The Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy : Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
An amazing collection of original sources relating to the practice and belief in polygamy, with commentary and introductions by the author.

Todd Compton: In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
An award winning book providing the biographies of 33 of Joseph Smith's wives.

Brian C. Hales: Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism
An detailed study on Mormon fundamentalist polygamy in the 20th century.

Richard S. Van Wagoner: Mormon Polygamy: A History
A good introduction to polygamy from Joseph Smith to current practices.

Irwin Altman: Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society
How do modern polygamists live? This book will give some answers.

B. Carmon Hardy: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
A well written study of the history of Mormon polygamy.

Sarah Barringer Gordon: The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
An award winning study about polygamy and the legal issues that resulted.

Will Bagley: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
The best recent study of MMM. An excellent book that is challenging and honest.

Judith Freeman: Red Water: A Novel
An amazing novel about the aftermath of the MMM seen through the eyes of the wives of John D. Lee.

Juanita Brooks: The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The groundbreaking book that changed Mormon history. A classic that every thinking person should read.