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Mormon Studies Books in 2026

Chad Nielsen

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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.

An AI-generated image portraying the types of books coming out about Latter-day Saints and Mormon Studies in 2026

Church Historian’s Press

University of Utah Press

 

Oxford University Press

 

University of Illinois Press

 

Signature Books

 

Greg Kofford Books

 

Basic Books

 

FAIR

 

Deseret Book

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

 

Misc.

 

Independently Published

 

 Cutting Edge Latter-day Saint Research

 

Mormon Writing Awards in 2026

Originally published 7 January 2026

Updated 19 October 2026.

Comments

11 responses to “Mormon Studies Books in 2026”

  1. Gary Bergera

    Thanks, Chad. Looks like a great year.

  2. Jenny Champoux

    Look for _Picturing Christ: Understandings Depictions of Jesus in History and Art_ from Deseret Book on March 2! Coauthored by Daniel Becerra, Jennifer Champoux, Mark Ellison, and Matthew Grey.

  3. Chad Nielsen

    Jenny Champoux, good to know on that one!

    Gary Bergera, my pleasure.

  4. RL

    I enjoy this annual post. Pre orders placed. The new Oxford Bible and the book on Law look the most interesting for me.

  5. Chad Nielsen

    I’m glad you enjoy it, RL. The Deseret Alphabet and C. C. A. Christensen are probably the ones I’m most excited about (other than my own book, of course).

  6. Seth

    Any idea on when the William Clayton Journals will be released?

  7. Chad Nielsen

    Seth, not really. The Clayton manuscript has been complete for a while. With the pivot to publishing through Yale (something that feels weird, given that they’ve published so many other books as a press), it’s whenever the university press finishes their reviews, editing, and preparations. My guess would be a release towards the end of the year.

  8. Grant Hardy

    Chad, I have a new book coming out in December–an introduction to the Book of Mormon that will be part of Oxford University Press’s series “Guides to Sacred Texts.” It will follow the basic format of their previous guides to scriptures such as the Rigveda, Classical Upanishads, the Analects, the Daode Jing, Buddhist Tantras, the New Testament, the Apocrypha, and so forth. My contribution to the series will cover many of the topics from the general essays in my Annotated Book of Mormon, but in a little more depth, and I tackle some new topics as well. In my opinion, the Book of Mormon deserves a place in the library of world scriptures, and I’m delighted that OUP commissioned this volume.

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-book-of-mormon-9780197511398?lang=en&cc=us&utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1dennhb1v83jy&fbclid=IwY2xjawUrHdBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMVpVWTBmZ0VzelhJeUMyWkRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEefzU_XzyBYKScrMpFFilox1zPKpJB0qK2RoXqbR1bQAXfhobP8ujbyGaQqek_aem_8MSppPyoWyJaKN9aJvV6-g

  9. Chad Nielsen

    That’s so exciting, Grant! I’ll add it to the list.

  10. Kent Larsen

    Chad, this is fabulous work. Thank you very much for doing it.

    One question:
    When you look for reviews of books, are you only looking at the sites you reference here? Or are you doing general searches for reviews of the books?

    I ask because I wonder how much I can rely on my assumption that the sites you list are the main sites where LDS books get reviewed (i.e., is it possible that there are other sites out there that review LDS books that you have excluded for some reason, or that you haven’t noticed because of the way you search)?

  11. Chad Nielsen

    I’m mostly keeping an eye on group of sites I know do a lot of reviews or interviews (T&S, Dawning if a Brighter Day, From the Desk, Cultural Hall). If I’m made aware of more of them through publishers’ newsletters, social media posts, the https://www.ldsblogs.org/ site, and the occasionally search, I’ll add them. But I wouldn’t trust this to be a comprehensive collection.

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