20 Top religion books like DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn by Benjamin E. Park

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DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.46

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Few lives have been as consequential for modern Mormonism as D. Michael Quinn. The son of a Mexican…

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1. 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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2. Where Nothing Is Long Ago: Memories of a Mormon Childhood

By: Virginia Sorensen , Susan Elizabeth Howe

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

The narrator of these stories is an adult remembering her experiences as a child and telling them f… read more

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3. 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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  • religion
  • biography
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4. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • history
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5. Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

By: Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. In Build the Life… read more

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"feel the feel, then take the wheel pg30"

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-Arthur C. Brooks, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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6. 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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7. Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

By: Frans de Waal

4.16

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores sex and … read more

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8. Original Grace

By: Adam S. Miller

4.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In Original Grace, Adam S. Miller proposes an experiment in Restoration thinking: What if instead o… read more

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9. The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism

By: Sara M. Patterson

4.39

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In the single month of September 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicat… read more

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  • religion
  • history
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10. Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance

By: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

4.60

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

We are part of a complex Church community―full of people who think differently than we do, behave i… read more

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  • religion
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11. 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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  • religion
  • history
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12. Let's Talk About Faith and Intellect

By: Terryl L. Givens

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

In Let's Talk about Faith and Intellect , Terryl Givens, who has written broadly to both academic a… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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  • religion
  • biography
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15. Proclaim Peace: The Restoration's Answer to an Age of Conflict

By: Patrick Q. Mason

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This book is a spiritual journey by two believing scholars of peace. In a world plagued by violence… read more

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  • religion
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16. The LDS Gospel Topics Series: A Scholarly Engagement

By: Matthew L Harris

4.10

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

This anthology provides a scholarly, in-depth analysis of the thirteen Gospel Topics essays issued … read more

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Cover of Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse by Christopher James Blythe

17. 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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  • history
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18. 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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  • religion
  • history
Cover of Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author by Stephen Carter

19. 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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20. East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

By: Rachel Rueckert

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

"An engrossing exploration of a hard but ultimately exhilarating trek toward love and commitment." … read more

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"Sometimes I'm grateful to find out that I'm wrong."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

"Healthy relationships, I was beginning to accept, could weather the occasional spat."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

"Forgetting, I would learn, could be just as useful as remembering in a long-term partnership."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

"I wanted to please everyone-an impossibility. The noise of everyone else's expectations and concerns drowned out whispers of my own inclinations."

-Rachel Rueckert, East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage

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21. 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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Cover of American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West by Betsy Gaines Quammen

22. American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West

By: Betsy Gaines Quammen

4.03

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With … read more

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  • history
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23. 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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24. DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.46

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Few lives have been as consequential for modern Mormonism as D. Michael Quinn. The son of a Mexican… read more

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  • religion
  • biography
Cover of Secret Covenants: New Insights on Early Mormon Polygamy by Cheryl L. Bruno

25. 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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26. Wineskin: Freakin’ Jesus in the ‘60s and ‘70s

By: Michael Hicks

4.56

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Mormonism begins with a Joseph Smith kneeling in a grove until two-thirds of the Godhead appear an… read more

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Cover of Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture by Janiece Johnson

27. Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture

By: Janiece Johnson

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of me… read more

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Cover of And There Was No Poor Among Them: Liberation, Salvation, and the Meaning of the Restoration by Ryan D. Ward

28. And There Was No Poor Among Them: Liberation, Salvation, and the Meaning of the Restoration

By: Ryan D. Ward

5.00

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

While The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has expanded many fundamental Christian doctr… read more

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"I suggest that the Restoration was a direct intervention by God to reject and push back against the widescale adoption of the capitalist ethic and ideology during the Industrial Revolution"

-Ryan D. Ward, And There Was No Poor Among Them: Liberation, Salvation, and the Meaning of the Restoration

"If Jesus experienced all that humankind would suffer, then our own suffering and the suffering of those with whom we stand in solidarity must by necessity also help us come to know and understand him…"

-Ryan D. Ward, And There Was No Poor Among Them: Liberation, Salvation, and the Meaning of the Restoration

Cover of To Be a Friend of Christ: The Life of Marion D. Hanks by Richard D. Hanks

29. To Be a Friend of Christ: The Life of Marion D. Hanks

By: Richard D. Hanks

4.88

Format: 826 pages, Kindle Edition

Marion Duff Hanks (1921–2011) was one of the most beloved and influential leaders of the Church of … read more

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Cover of Stop the Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune by James W. Ure

30. Stop the Press: How the Mormon Church Tried to Silence the Salt Lake Tribune

By: James W. Ure

3.96

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

This disturbing expose examines how the powerful Mormon Church tried to destroy the Salt Lake Tribu… read more

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Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

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Sara M. Patterson

4.39

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

Benjamin E. Park

4.21

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Heart of the Matter: What 100 Years of Living Have Taught Me

Russell M. Nelson

4.87

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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Erik Larson

4.24

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