14 must-read religion books like Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (Introductions to Mormon Thought) by Cristina M. Rosetti

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Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (Introductions to Mormon Thought)

By: Cristina M. Rosetti

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In 1921, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated Joseph White Musser for his…

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1. The Infinite Atonement

By: Tad R. Callister

4.64

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

"Some things simply matter more than others," writes Robert L. Millet in his foreword to this landm… read more

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"The Savior was no ivory-tower observer, no behind-the-lines captain... The Savior was a participant, a player, who not only understood our plight intellectually, but who felt our wounds because they …"

-Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement

"Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who ha…"

-Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement

"The powers of the Atonement do not lie dormant until one sins and then suddenly spring forth to satisfy the needs of the repentant person. Rather, like the forces of gravity, they are everywhere pres…"

-Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement

"Part of the human experience is to confront temptation. No one escapes. It is omnipresent. It is both externally driven and internally prompted. It is like the enemy that attacks from all sides. It b…"

-Tad R. Callister, The Infinite Atonement

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2. The Sound of Gravel

By: Ruth Wariner

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist cult. Ruth Wari… read more

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3. The Sin of Certainty: Why God Desires Our Trust More Than Our "Correct" Beliefs

By: Peter Enns

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

The controversial evangelical Bible scholar and author of The Bible Tells Me Soexplains how Christi… read more

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4. A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Audio CD

A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nine… read more

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5. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith

By: None , None

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. 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

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7. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

By: Max Brooks

3.91

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Gr… read more

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"Adversity introduces us to ourselves."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…"

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"They're not good or evil. They're just hungry."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

"People are the problem. Nature is your friend."

-Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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8. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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9. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

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10. The World According to Physics

By: Jim Al-Khalili

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinat… read more

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"The true beauty of physics, for me, is found not only in abstract equations or in surprising experimental results, but in the deep underlying principles that govern the way the world is."

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"By thinking about what we don't yet know, we can think about how we can best find out. It is the many questions we have asked over the course of our human history that have given us an ever-more-accu…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"Let me first make two important assumptions, which I will discuss in more detail later on, but will now just say that they are both supported strongly by observational evidence: (1) that the laws of …"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

"The trustworthiness of science comes not from certainty, but from its very openness about its uncertainty, always calling into question what we currently understand and being prepared to replace that…"

-Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics

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11. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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12. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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13. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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14. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

By: Kerry Howley

3.81

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more

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"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

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15. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

By: Miles Harvey

3.69

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more

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16. Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath

By: Richard E. Turley

4.39

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, M… read more

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Cover of Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839 by Dan Vogel

17. Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839

By: Dan Vogel

4.78

Format: 1024 pages, Hardcover

When Joseph Smith entered Kirtland, Ohio, for the first time, he had only the year before establish… read more

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

By: Terryl L. Givens

4.50

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Eugene England (1933-2001)—one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mo… read more

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19. Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse

By: Christopher James Blythe

4.48

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, h… read more

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20. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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21. Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Matthew L. Harris

4.91

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in… read more

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22. Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author

By: Stephen Carter

4.33

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In the 1940s she was a New York Times bestselling author—of Mormon novels. In the 1950s she won a N… read more

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23. Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator (Introductions to Mormon Thought)

By: George B. Handley

4.80

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The intellectual and ethical achievements of the Latter-day Saint theologian Known in his lifetime … read more

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24. The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America

By: Matthew Bowman

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society i… read more

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25. Chosen Path: A Memoir

By: D. Michael Quinn

4.69

Format: 586 pages, Hardcover

After D. Michael Quinn’s death in April 2021, his children found his remarkable, unpublished memoir… read more

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"No use trying to cat fight with a skunk."

-D. Michael Quinn, Chosen Path: A Memoir

"Both God and the Devil are in the details…"

-D. Michael Quinn, Chosen Path: A Memoir

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26. Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (Introductions to Mormon Thought)

By: Cristina M. Rosetti

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In 1921, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated Joseph White Musser for his… read more

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27. Bruce R. McConkie: Apostle and Polemicist, 1915–1985

By: Devery S. Anderson

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Although he served as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for only twelve… read more

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28. Come Up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering

By: Cheryl L. Bruno

4.00

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Come Up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering delves deep into the life… read more

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29. Secret Covenants: New Insights on Early Mormon Polygamy

By: Cheryl L. Bruno

4.00

Format: 643 pages, Kindle Edition

Navigating the intricate labyrinth of early Mormon plural marriage can be fascinating, frustrating,… read more

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30. The Book of Queer Mormon Joy

By: Kerry Spencer Pray

4.33

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

The story of queer Mormons is one that some might not expect to be joyful. The Church of Jesus Chri… read more

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31. American Polygamy: A History of Fundamentalist Mormon Faith

By: Craig L. Foster

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Cen… read more

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