I don’t remember seeing a list given anywhere of books planned for publication in 2025 in the Mormon Studies field. So, in the interest of sharing what has been published and what is intended to be published in 2025, here is the list I have been able to compile:
Church Historian’s Press
- Carry On: The Latter-day Saint Young Women Organization, 1870–2024
- March 11, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- “Carry On”: A History of the Young Women Organization (From the Desk)
- Tait, Taylor, Holbrook, Goldberg “Carry On: The Latter-day Saint Young Women Organization, 1870–2024”, Reviewed by El Call (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
- Future:
- William Clayton Journals
- 2026
- Eliza R. Snow Select Discourses
- Hopefully soon
- William Clayton Journals
University of Utah Press
- Mediated Mormons: Shifting Religious Identities in the Digital Age, by Rosemary Avance
- February 27, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- Avance, “Mediated Mormons: Shifting Religious Identities in the Digital Age” (Reviewed by Michael Hicks) (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
- Desert Birthright: A Midwife’s Memoir, by Lori Wrankle
- September 2025
- The Life and Times of John Steele: Mormon Kingdom Builder, by Kerry William Bate
- Late September or October 2025
- Constructing Space: Six Communal Religious Groups and Their Spatial Worlds, by Martha Bradley Evans
- November 2025
- Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon, by Thomas W Murphy
- Late 2025 or early 2026
Oxford University Press
- Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, by Jonathan A. Stapley
- August 2025
- The Salt Lake Temple, by Scott D. Marianno and Reid L. Neilson
- August 2025
Illinois University Press
- Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State, by Samuel D. Brunson
- February 5, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews
- The Three Nephites: Saints, Service, and Supernatural Legend
- October 7, 2025
- Future:
- J. Reuben Clark and the Making of Modern Mormonism, by Matthew Harris
- Global Mormonisms Series
Nebraska University Press
- On the Overland Trails with William Clark: A Teamster’s Utah War, 1857–1858. Edited by William P. MacKinnon and Kenneth L. Alford.
- March 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century, by Fred E. Woods
- March 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- The Sail before the Trail—The 19th Century Latter-day Saint Gathering to America (Y Religion)
BYU Maxwell Institute
- Seventy Times Seven: Jesus’s Path to Conflict Transformation by Chad Ford
- April 7, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews
- Chad Ford: 70×7 (Faith Matters)
- Reviews of 70×7 are in! (The Waymaker)
BYU RSC
- Doctrine and Covenants Insights: Capstone of Doctrinal Understanding, by Kenneth L. Alford, Mary Jane Woodger, and Mark A. Mathews
- February 3, 2025
- Authentic: The Book of Mormon, Evidences of a Miracle, by Stephen L. Lundwall and Rebecca A. Lundwall
- February 17, 2025
- Prepare Me for Thy Use: Lessons from Wilford Woodruff’s Mission Years, by Kristy Wheelwright Taylor
- May 12, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- A Review: Prepare Me for Thy Use (Times and Seasons)
- Planting the Acorn: The South American Mission, by Mark L. Grover
- May 19, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- Planting the Acorn: A Review (Times and Seasons)
- This Great and Lasting War: Studies in Alma 45–63, edited by Joseph M. Spencer
- August 18, 2025
- God’s Word in Our Hearts: Learning from the Old Testament, by Ross Barron and Kerry Muhlestein
- December 1, 2025
- Genesis: A New English Translation, by Kent P. Jackson
- December 15, 2025
Signature Books
- At Last She Said It: Honest Conversations About Faith, Church, and Everything in Between, by Susan Hinckley and Cynthia Winward
- April 28, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- Hinckley and Winward, “At Last She Said It: Honest Conversations About Faith, Church, And Everything In Between” (Reviewed by Julie Nichols) (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
- The Blood in Their Veins: The Kimballs, Polygamy, and the Shaping of Mormonism, by Andrew Kimball
- Changemakers: Women Who Boldly Built Zion, by McArthur Krishna & Anne Pimentel. Illustrated by Jessica Sarah Beach
- March 20, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- McArthur Krishna & Anne Pimentel: Changemakers (Faith Matters)
- The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson: Mormon Author, Feminist, and Activist, Volume 1: 1957–1989, by Carol Lynn Pearson
- Fall 2025
- Making Space for Mormon Thought and Culture: The Enduring Influence of Eugene England. Edited by Robert A. Rees & Brent Rushforth
- Summer 2025
- Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay, by Brian Q. Cannon
- Late 2025
- Educating Zion: The Diaries of Ernest L. Wilkinson, edited by Gary James Bergera
- Late 2025
- Future:
- Hugh B. Brown: Mormonism’s Progressive Apostle, by Matthew Harris
Greg Kofford Books
- Shall I Have Pleasure? An Answer for Sarah, by Zachary McLeod Hutchins
- February 18, 2025
- Imagining and Reimagining the Restoration, by Robert A. Rees
- Bring Them to Zion: The 1856 Handcart Emigration Organization, Leadership, and Issues, by Don H Smith with the assistance of Mark C. Austin
- The Juvenile Instructor Office: The Growth of Specialized Publishing in Utah in the 1880s, by Craig S. Smith
- Mormon Prophetic Utterances: The General Conference Speaking of the Latter-day Saint Presidents, by Richard N. Armstrong and Eric Armstrong
- Third Century: The Future of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Richard Davis
- Changing Faces of the Most Correct Book: A Publishing History and Analytical Bibliography of the Book of Mormon, by Hugh G. Stocks
BCC Press
- D&C and Church History ARTbook Vol. 1
- Sovereign by Michaelann Gardner
- February 11, 2025
- The Physician Christ, by Jeff Goddard
- March 25, 2025
- Brighter and Brighter Until the Perfect Day, by Sharlee Mullins Glenn
- April 8, 2025
Faith Matters
- A Thoughtful Faith For the 21st Century, edited by Philip Barlow
- May 6, 2025
John Whitmer
- From Militarized Mission to Global Solidarity: The Life and Work of Missionary and Humanitarian Charles D. Neff, 3rd edition, by Matthew Breay Bolton
- May 20, 2025
Eerdmans Publishing Co.
- Latter-day Saint Theology among Christian Theologies, by Grant Underwood
- March 13, 2025
- Dispatches from Mormon Zion, by Ryan W. Davis
- March 13, 2025
Deseret Book
- The Lord Spoke Her Name: The Remarkable Life of Vienna Jaques in the Restoration, by Brent M. Rogers
- March 3, 2025
- Reviews and Interviews:
- Who Was Vienna Jaques? (From the Desk)
- Let’s Talk about Becoming Like God, by Daniel L. Belnap
- Fall 2025
- Let’s Talk about Misconceptions with DNA and the Book of Mormon, by John M. Butler
- Fall 2025
- Let’s Talk about Faith and History, by Matthew J. Grow
- Fall 2025
Misc.
- The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-day Saints, by Jared Farmer
- February 17, 2025
- Utah State University Press
- The Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and Evolution [PDF], edited by Jamie L. Jensen, Steven L. Peck, Ugo A. Perego, and T. Benjamin Spackman
- BYU Life Sciences
- Reviews and Interviews:
- What Should Latter-day Saints Know About BYU’s Evolution Book? (From the Desk)
- What Did the First Presidency Say About Evolution in 1909 and 1925? (From the Desk)
- New Book (and New Essays!) on the Church, Science, and Evolution (benspackman.com)
- New Book on the Gospel and Evolution Published by BYU (Mormonomics)
- Another Mistaken BYU Harmonize-Evolution-with-Doctrine Movement (Truth Will Prevail)
- The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues, by Dan McClellan
- April 29, 2025
- Interviews and Reviews:
- “The Bible Says So”: An Interview with Dan McClellan (From the Desk)
- McClellan, “The Bible Says So -What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman) (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
- McClellan, “The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (And Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues” (Reviewed by Ryan Ward) (Dawning of a Brighter Day)
- Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, by John G. Turner
- June 17, 2025
- Yale University Press
- Reviews and Interviews:
- What’s in John Turner’s Joseph Smith Biography? (From the Desk)
- Review: Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet (Times and Seasons)
- Chronicling the Elusive Joseph Smith, by Daniel K. Williams (Patheos)
- Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, by Max Perry Mueller
- November 4, 2025
- Basic Books
- 40 Questions About Mormonism, by Kyle Beshears
- Winter 2025/2026
- Kregel Academic
Might Have Missed from 2024:
- A Catholic Engagement with Latter-day Saints, by Francis Beckwith, Richard Sherlock
- Ignatius Press
- Reviews and Interviews:
- New book: A Catholic Engagement with Latter-Day Saints (Patheos)
- Making sense of Mormonism (The Catholic World Report)
- Processando os Documentos: Revisando, Retificando e Ratificando a História da Igreja no Brasil, Volume I (1928-1944), by Fernando Pinheiro
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