My Bookshelf
If you’re really into studying about the Church, these books are a must:
An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith, 2nd ed. by Scott H. Faulring, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989)
An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton by George D. Smith, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith Research Associates, 1991)
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, Revised and enlarged ed. by D. Michael Quinn (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998)
In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997)
Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record by H. Michael Marquardt and Wesley P. Walters (Salt Lake City: Smith Research Associates/Signature Books, 1998)
Joseph Smith and the Origins of the Book of Mormon, 2nd ed. by David Persuitte (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co., 2000)
Joseph Smith: The First Mormon by Donna Hill (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999)
Mormon America: The Power and the Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000)
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, 2nd ed. by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994)
Mormon Polygamy: A History by Richard S. Van Wagoner (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1986)
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged by Fawn Brodie (New York: Vintage Books, 1995)
Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess by Richard S. Van Wagoner (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005)
The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith Research Associates, 1997)
The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith Research Associates, 1994)
The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship, 2nd ed. by David John Buerger (Salt Lake City: Signature Books/Smith Research Associates, 2002)