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General reference works
- Comprehensive History of the Church (B.H. Roberts)
- History of the Church (credited to Joseph Smith)
- Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History
Biography
- Who's Who in the D&C (Susan Easton Black) - off-site
Modern prophets
- Messages of the First Presidency [James R. Clark, editor]
- Latter-day Prophets Speak: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Church Presidents
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Lectures on Faith (authorship disputed)
- Personal Writings of Joseph Smith (edited by Dean C. Jessee)
- Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (compiled by Joseph Fielding Smith)
- Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph (edited by Lyndon W. Cook, Andrew F. Ehat)
- Brigham Young
- John Taylor
- Gospel Kingdom: Selections from the Writings and Discourses of John Taylor
- Mediation and Atonement
- Witness to the Martyrdom - John Taylor's Personal Account of the Last Days of the Prophet Joseph Smith
- Wilford Woodruff
- Lorenzo Snow
- Joseph F. Smith
- Heber J. Grant
- George Albert Smith
- David O. McKay
- Joseph Fielding Smith
- Harold B. Lee
- Spencer W. Kimball
- Ezra Taft Benson
- Howard W. Hunter
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Other general authorities
Bruce R. McConkie
- Doctrinal New Testament Commentary
- Messiah Series
- Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed
- New Witness for Articles of Faith
Brigham H. (BH) Roberts
Apologetics
- Are Mormons Christians? - Stephen R. Robinson
- Evidences and Reconciliations - John A. Widtsoe
Book of Mormon
Historicity
| Selected general works on Book of Mormon historicity |
- Alan Goff, "'Historical Narrative, Literary Narrative—Expelling Poetics from the Republic of History'," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 5/1 (1996). [50–102] link
- Paul Y. Hoskisson (ed.), Historicity and the Latter-day Saint Scriptures (Provo, Utah: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2001). ISBN 1577349288
- Robert L. Millet, "'The Book of Mormon, Historicity, and Faith'," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 2/2 (1993). [1–3] link
- Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Mormon, 3rd edition, (Vol. 6 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988).
- Hugh W. Nibley, Lehi in the Desert, the World of the Jaredites, There Were Jaredites, edited by John W. Welch with Darrell L. Matthew and Stephen R. Callister, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988).
- Hugh W. Nibley, The Prophetic Book of Mormon (Vol. 8 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1989). ISBN 0875791794.
- Hugh W. Nibley, Since Cumorah, 2nd edition, (Vol. 7 of the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley), edited by John W. Welch, (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Company ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1988). ISBN 0875791395.
- Book of Mormon Authorship: New Light on Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds and Charles D. Tate (eds.), (Provo, Utah : Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University ; Salt Lake City, Utah : Distributed by Bookcraft, 1996 [1982]). ISBN 0884944697 GospeLink
- Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited: The Evidence for Ancient Origins, edited by Noel B. Reynolds, (Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1997). ISBN 093489325X ISBN 0934893187 ISBN 0884944697. off-site GL direct link
- Ricks and Hamblin, eds., Warfare in the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990).
- Stephen D. Ricks & John W. Welch (editors), Allegory of the Olive Tree: The Olive, the Bible, and Jacob 5 (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1994). ISBN 0875797679. GL direct link
- John L. Sorenson, An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon (Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Book Co. ; Provo, Utah : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1996 [1985]).
- John L. Sorenson, "Digging into the Book of Mormon: Our Changing Understanding of Ancient America and Its Scripture, Part 1," Ensign (September 1984). off-site
- John L. Sorenson, "Digging into the Book of Mormon: Our Changing Understanding of Ancient America and Its Scripture, Part 2," Ensign (October 1984). off-site
- John L. Sorenson, Mormon's Map (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2000). ISBN 0934893489.
- Rediscovering the Book of Mormon, edited by John L. Sorenson and Melvin J. Thorne (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Co.; Provo, Utah: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1991).
- Reexploring the Book of Mormon, edited by John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1992).
- John A. Widtsoe, Seven Claims of the Book of Mormon GospeLink
Witnessess
Church History
- Regional Studies in LDS Church History
- Richard Lloyd Anderson
- James B. Allen
- Story of the Latter-day Saints(and Glen M. Leonard)
- Men With A Mission: 1837-1841, Quorum of the Twelve in England (and Ronald K. Esplin, David J. Whittaker)
- Milton V. Backman
- William Clayton
- Clark V. Johnson
- Truman G. Madsen
- Parley P. Pratt
- Lucy Mack Smith
- History of Joseph Smith by His Mother (Revised and Enhanced Version)
Hugh Nibley
- Abraham in Egypt
- An Approach to the Book of Mormon
- Enoch the Prophet
- Lehi in the Deseret/ The World of the Jaredites/ There Were Jaredites
- Message of the Joseph Smith Papyrii - An Egyptian Endowment
- Mormonism and Early Christianity
- Old Testament and Related Studies
- Prophetic Book of Mormon
- Since Cumorah - Book of Mormon
- Tinkling Cymbals and Sounding Brass - "Classic" anti-Mormonism texts