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Ready to fill your shelves with incredible reads from 2024? In this special Dialogue Book Report episode, hosts Andrew Hall, Caroline Kline, and Andrew Hamilton guide you through a comprehensive review of this year’s books connected to Mormon studies and culture. Whether you’re a fan of history, memoir, fiction, or theology, this episode has something for everyone.
Here’s the full list of books they discuss:
📚 Fifty Years of Exponent II by Katie Rich and Heather Sundahl. Signature.
📚 I, Claudia by Claudia Bushman. Greg Kofford.
📚 Writing Mormon History 2 edited by Joseph Geisner. Signature.
📚 Dictates of Conscience by Laurie Lee Hall. Signature.
📚 The Boughs of Love by Nathan Kitchen. BCC Press.
📚 Points of Tangency by Scott Russell Morris. Cornerstone Press.
📚 The Last Good Snow Hunt by Joshua DeWain Foster. Self-published.
📚 Book of Bauer: Stories from a Forgotten Town by Stephen S. Lottridge. University of Utah Press.
📚 American Zion by Benjamin Park. W. W. Norton.
📚 Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Matthew L. Harris. Oxford University Press.
📚 This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah by W. Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich, and LaJean Purcell Carruth. Oxford University Press.
📚 Secret Covenants: New Insights on Early Mormon Polygamy edited by Cheryl Bruno. Signature.
📚 Bruce R. McConkie: Apostle and Polemicist by Devery S. Anderson. Signature.
📚 To Be a Friend on Christ: The Life of Marion D. Hanks by Richard D. Hanks. Signature.
📚 Sonia Johnson: A Mormon Feminist by Christine Talbot. University of Illinois.
📚 Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist by Cristina M. Rosetti. University of Illinois.
📚 Joseph Fielding Smith: Mormon Theologian by Matthew Bowman. University of Illinois.
📚 The Life and Adventures of Eli Wiggill: South African 1820 Settler, Wesleyan Missionary, and Latter-day Saint by Fred E. Woods, et al. Greg Kofford.
📚 Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader edited by Amanda Beardsley and Mason Allred. Oxford University Press.
📚 Visitations by Corey Egbert. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
📚 Tales of Chelm First Ward by James Goldberg, Nicole Wilkes Goldberg, and Mattathias Singh. BCC Press.
📚 Desperate Measures by Thomas F. Rogers. BCC Press.
📚 Journeys from a Desert Road by Mary Clyde. Signature.
📚 Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson. Tor.
📚 The Unwedding by Ally Condie. Hachette.
📚 Cigarettes & Saints by Kiera Shae. Self-published.
📚 Immortal Blood by Mette Harrison. BCC Press.
📚 Salt Folk by Ryan Habermeyer. Cornerstone Press.
📚 American Trinity and Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor by David G. Pace. BCC Press.
📚 Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos by Taylor Petrey. University of North Carolina Press.
📚 Forever Familias: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in Peruvian Mormonism by Jason Palmer. University of Illinois.
📚 Missionary Interests edited by Christopher Cannon Jones and David Golding. Cornell University Press.
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