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A good place to start is the Association for Mormon Letters' 100 Works of Significant Mormon Literature. https://www.associationmormonletters.org/2022/07/aml-100-significant-mormon-literature-works/

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Oct 14Liked by Jeanine Bee

Levi Peterson's The Backslider

cowboy Jesus!

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This seems like as good a spot as any to start building a bibliography of favorites. I'll start with three novels I admire:

A Little Lower than the Angels by Virginia Sorensen (1942) --- a novel of Nauvoo with all the triumphs and tragedies and probably my favorite prose rendition of Joseph Smith

Love Letters of the Angels of Death by Jennifer Quist (2013) --- only a couple cues prove the central couple to be LDS but in my mind this is perhaps the finest description of a Latter-day Saint marriage I've ever read

The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the la Sals by Steven L. Peck (2019) --- a postapocalyptic reimagining narrated by a demon exploring what a future version of our faith might entail

Tag. You're it.

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