Comments on: My 10 Most-Read Books From Deseret Book

By: BHodges

BHodges — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:24:10 +0000

good post matt.

By: Riley

Riley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:29:14 +0000

Anything and everything by W. Cleon Skousen…he’s my hero.

By: Bored in Vernal

Bored in Vernal — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:34:56 +0000

Understanding Isaiah by Parry, Parry, and Peterson is quite worthwhile and I refer to it fairly often in my study of Isaiah.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:12:20 +0000

“Revelations of the Restoration,” Joseph Fielding McConkie and Craig Ostler – Great commentary on the D&C that I refer to constantly.

“The Infinite Atonement,” Tad Callister – Very easy read on the Atonment and provides interesting insights.

That’s all I can think of right now.

By: Mark D.

Mark D. — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:09:22 +0000

I’m sorry I thought you meant “purchased at Deseret Book”. I don’t think I have any new books published by Deseret Book in the last decade or so.

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:38:40 +0000

I’ve just combed my shelves, thinking that I could make a moderately humorous comment listing the Deseret Books books from the ’60s and ’70s that I collected by the hundreds way back when — I knew there wouldn’t be a lot from more recent days because although I occasionally go into DB hoping against hope to find something of interest that isn’t printed on the poorest quality paper and bound in the shoddiest of paper covers, I haven’t bought anything there except Institute manuals for as long as I can remember.

It was something of a shock to discover that all those church books that had made it through the severe weeding process of my last move were published by Bookcraft, not by Deseret Book.

The only DB titles I can find on my shelves (I may have missed one or two, but not many):

Joseph Smith’s America, by Slaughter and Orton
40 Ways to Look at Brigham Young, by Orton
Mary Fielding Smith, by Corbett (a 1974 title)
Our Latter-day Hymns, by Davidson (both 1988 and 2009 editions)
How We Got the Bible, by Read (from 1985)
The Children of the Promise series by Hughes (I think the only LDS fiction series I have ever really, truly enjoyed)

And that’s it. I couldn’t put together a list of ten (unless you count the Hughes volumes separately) because I don’t own that many among the thousands here. That honestly surprised me.

I do want to pick up Matt’s 6, though.

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:32:23 +0000

I love a good book, like those listed above, that open my and mind and heart to God. But the best I’ve found to this end, among books, are the scriptures.

However, books fail compared to prayer. The best that books have to offer a starving soul is a snack, as compared to the feast that communing with God in mighty prayer provides.

By: Mark D.

Mark D. — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:04:52 +0000

I purchased Blake Ostler’s Exploring Mormon Thought: The Attributes of God at Deseret Book a few years back and enjoyed it very much.

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:46:04 +0000

Kent, it is worth noting the whole book is free online.

By: Kent (MC)

Kent (MC) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:20:36 +0000

Blake, the Peacegiver is worth it. It supports a compassion theory of atonement.