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Dialogue Book Report #8: Andrew and Andrew on 2020 LDS books

January 5, 2021

Andrew Hall and Andrew Hamilton discuss 2020’s books in Mormon studies and literature. 
Books discussed:
Matthew L Harris, editor. Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
Matthew L. Harris. Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
The Complete Ezra Taft Benson FBI File
Lavina Fielding Anderson. Mercy Without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
Veda Hale, Andrew Hall, and Lynne Larson. A Craving for Beauty: The Collected Writings of Maurine Whipple
Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming. The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 1
James Goldberg and Ardis Parshall. Song of Names: A Mormon Mosaic
James Goldberg. A Book of Lamentations
James Goldberg. The Five Books of Jesus
Mette Ivie Harrison. The Women’s Book of Mormon, Vol. 1
Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst. The LDS Gospel Topics Series: A Scholarly Engagement
Michael Hicks. Spencer Kimball’s Record Collection: Essays on Mormon Music
Blake T. Ostler. Exploring Mormon Thought: Volume 4, God’s Plan to Heal Evil
Matt Page. Future Day Saints: Welcome to New Zion
Sierra Wilson and Emily Shay. Standout Saints: Church History Heroes from Around the World
Susan L. Gong and Masahiro Tateishi. Ming’s Christmas Wishes
Anthony R. Sweat. Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand Our Understanding 
Eric A. Eliason, Lynne S. McNeill, and Carol Edison, editors. This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions
J. Butler. Witchy Daughter
Brandon Sanderson. Rhythm of War
Phyllis Barber. The Desert Between Us
Dean Hughes. Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide
John Bennion. Ezekiel’s Third Wife
Twila Newey. Sylvia
Charity Shumway. Bountiful
Melody Newey Johnson. An Imperfect Roundness
Marrijane Rice. Grace Like Water