Building on the collection of links about Latter-day Saint books for last year (Mormon Studies Books in 2025), here is the collection of books I’ve been able to find out about for 2026. I will continue to update this page throughout the year, as reviews, interviews, and podcasts become available for the books and other books come to my attention.
Church Historian’s Press
- Rise Up and Speak: Selected Discourses of Eliza R. Snow, edited by Jennifer Reeder, Sharalyn D. Howcroft, Elizabeth A. Kuehn, Jessica M. Nelson
- William Clayton Journals
- Jointly published with Yale University Press
University of Utah Press
- Constructing Space: Six Communal Religious Groups and Their Spatial Worlds by Martha Bradley Evans
- 17 April 2026
- Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon, by Thomas W Murphy
- 17 April 2026
- We All Must be Crasy: The Correspondence of Sarah Peterson Lund to her Missionary Husband, 1872 – 1894, edited by Jennifer L. Lund and Elizabeth Oberdick Anderson
Oxford University Press
- Living Oracles: Law and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, by Nathan B. Oman
- 27 February 2026
- New Oxford Annotated Bible, 6th ed.
- 26 May 2026
- Jewish Annotated New Testament, 3rd ed.
- 4 March 2026
Illinois University Press
- Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret, by Nancy Ross, Jessica Finnigan, and Larissa Kanno Kindred
- 24 February 2026
- Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador, by J.B. Haws
- 19 May 2026
- Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory, Edited by Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards
- 2 June 2026
- The Deseret Alphabet: A Fixed and Unalterable Sound, by Ryan K. Shosted and N. E. Davis
- 30 June 2026
- C. C. A. Christensen: A Mormon Visionary, by Jennifer Champoux
- 7 July 2026
- Future:
- J. Reuben Clark and the Making of Modern Mormonism, by Matthew Harris
- Global Mormonisms Series
Signature Books
- Tracy Y. Cannon: Tabernacle Organist and Pioneering Musician, 1879–1961, by Shelby Fisher
- 20 January 2026
- We’re Thankful for the Moisture: A Gay Guy’s Guide to Mormon Faith, Family, and Fruit Preservation, by Eli McCann
- 17 February 2026
- These Saints Are Stones: Poems by Millie Tullis
- Some Hard Stars: Poems by David Thacker
- The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson Volume 2: 1990-2000 (not final title)
- The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson Volume 3
- The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson Volume 4
- New Testament for Latter-day Saints by Alex Douglas
- Fall 2026
- Mae Swenson brief biography, by Stephen Carter
- Future:
- Hugh B. Brown: Mormonism’s Progressive Apostle, by Matthew Harris
- Willard Richards Biography (Devery Anderson)
Greg Kofford Books
- Grace or Money: Rediscovering the Gift of Grace in an Age of Greed, by Justin Pack
- 3 February 2026
- Sacred Scar: Poems, by Scott Hales
- February 2026
- Loves Ones, by Kevin Klein
- February 2026
- Unlocking the Chinese Realm: Apostle David O. McKay and Latter-day Saint Encounters in East Asia, 1852-1921, by Reid L. Neilson
- 10 March 2026
- Welding Another Link: Latter-day Saint Essays on Faith and Intellect, by Nathan B. Oman
- 26 March 2026
- The Unlikely and Impossible: Supporting Saints in Former Communist Europe, edited by Matthew K. Heiss and James A. Miller
- April 14, 2026
- A Barn Full of Angels: The Spiritual World and Pioneer Journey of Zerah Pulsipher, by Chad L. Nielsen
- May 2026
- Future:
- Knowing the Covenants of the Lord: The Law of Moses in the Book of Mormon, by Avram Shannon
- 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
- Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer’s Life, 2nd ed., Newell G. Bringhurst
- Mysteries of Baptism: The Mystagogical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem, by Todd Compton
Basic Books
- Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity, by Matthew Sutton
- 3 March 2026
- This is not about Mormonism exclusively, but does include significant discussion of Mormonism
- Future:
- Laurie Maffly-Kipp book on international Latter-day Saint history
Deseret Book
- Seven Crossings, by Rosalynde Welch and Adam Miller
- Books in this series have been coming out in October, so I would expect it around then.
- Learning the Great Fundamentals: Jesus Christ, Priesthood, and the Plan of Salvation, by Dallin H. Oaks
- 24 January 2026
- Quiet Disciples: How Everyday Acts of Faith Shape God’s Work
- 2 February 2026
- Picturing Christ: Understandings Depictions of Jesus in History and Art, by Daniel Becerra, Jennifer Champoux, Mark Ellison, and Matthew Grey
- 2 March 2026
I’m sure there’s plenty more coming, but sometime during Q2 last year, Deseret Book’s publicity team stopped responding to emails or otherwise functioning, so good luck finding out any more info
BYU RSC
- Brick by Brick: Early Latter-day Saint Meeting Places in the British Isles, by James Perry, Sylvia Brown, and Frank Blease
- 15 January 2026
- Behold The Lamb: A Visual Witness of the Savior’s Final Hours, by John Hilton III, Anthony Sweat, and J. Kirk Richards
- 9 February 2026
Misc.
- 40 Questions About Mormonism, by Kyle Beshears
- Winter 2025/2026
- Kregel Academic
- Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself, by David Archuleta
- Gallery Books
- 17 February 2026
- Mormon Barrio: Latino Belonging in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Sujey Vega
- NYU Press
- 3 March 2026
Updated 7 January 2026.
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