17 Best nonfiction books like The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church by Jana Riess

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The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

By: Jana Riess

3.91

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized relig…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church by Jana Riess , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

By: Sue Monk Kidd

3.98

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed spiritual memoir from the author of The Secret Life of Bees. I was amazed to find … read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

"Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

". . . in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

"Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always."

-Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine

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2. Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

By: David Roberts

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrati… read more

Similar categories in David Roberts's Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy book and Jana Riess's The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

  • history
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

By: John G. Turner

3.63

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was elec… read more

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  • history
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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4. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

By: Terryl L. Givens , Fiona Givens

3.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

"Whether by design or by chance," Terryl and Fiona Givens write, "we find ourselves in a universe f… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • mormonism

5. The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice

By: Rebecca Musser , M. Bridget Cook

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" o… read more

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6. American Crucifixion: The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

By: Alex Beam

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorou… read more

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7. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

By: Anonymous , Joseph Smith Jr.

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

The Book of Mormon is a volume of scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God's dealin… read more

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8. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin E. Park's American Zion: A New History of Mormonism book and Jana Riess's The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

  • history
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Both Things Are True

By: Kate Holbrook

4.47

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Smith’s observation that “by proving contraries, truth is made manifest” has become a belove… read more

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  • faith
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

By: William Alexander

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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12. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It

By: Brian D. McLaren

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A New Kind of Christianity comes a bold proposal: only doubt can save the world … read more

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  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. My Calamity Jane (The Lady Janies, #3)

By: Cynthia Hand

3.58

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Welcome ​to 1876 and a rootin’-tootin’ America bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou. JA… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Hand's My Calamity Jane (The Lady Janies, #3) book and Jana Riess's The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

  • audiobook
"I don't need a man. I have a gun."

-Cynthia Hand, My Calamity Jane (The Lady Janies, #3)

"Never ever, ever, ever, trust a writer. As a whole, they're a no-good bunch."

-Cynthia Hand, My Calamity Jane (The Lady Janies, #3)

"For the boat rockers, the rulebreakers, and the troublemakers. No one ever became a legend by blending in."

-Cynthia Hand, My Calamity Jane (The Lady Janies, #3)

Cover of Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier by Benjamin E. Park

14. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more

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  • history
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Expanding the Borders of Zion: A Latter-day Saint Perspective on LGBTQ Inclusion

By: Charlie Bird

4.77

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Many people want to offer love and support to their LGBTQ friends and neighbors but aren't sure how… read more

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  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Restoration: God's Call to the 21st Century World

By: Patrick Q. Mason

4.52

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

The Restoration began in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ … read more

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  • history
  • faith
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide by Christian Kimball

17. Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide

By: Christian Kimball

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

"Chris has managed to write a great primer for Latter-day Saints who desperately need a new way to … read more

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  • faith
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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18. The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

By: Rachel Feder

3.25

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

“A wildly entertaining read.”—The Washington PostWhat if we've been reading Jane Austen and romanti… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Feder's The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love book and Jana Riess's The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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19. Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History

By: Richard L. Bushman

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Renowned historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents a vibrant history of the objects that gave birth … read more

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  • lds
  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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20. The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

By: Jana Riess

3.91

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized relig… read more

Similar categories in Jana Riess's The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church book and Jana Riess's The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

  • social science
  • history
  • faith
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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21. The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology

By: Jonathan Stapley

4.51

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The Power of Godliness is a key work to understand Mormon conceptions of priesthood, authority, and… read more

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  • history
  • mormonism
  • lds
  • religion
  • nonfiction

11 Top audiobook books like The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church by Jana Riess

Transform Your Habits

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Both Things Are True

Kate Holbrook

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

William Alexander

3.98

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7 Top history books like Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History by Richard L. Bushman

Transform Your Habits

American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism

Sara M. Patterson

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism

Terryl L. Givens

4.50

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