List of Mormon History Association “Best Book” award books
The Mormon History Association lists the recipients of their annual Best Book award on their website. However, currently the names of the authors are listed, but the names of the books are not (Update 2022-07: titles are now shown on the MHA website). Here's the same list, but with book titles. Note that the publication year is the one preceding the year that the award was given. I've added links to the publisher's website where possible.
- 2023: Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism, by K. Mohrman
- 2022: No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America, by Adam Jortner
- 2021: Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier, by Benjamin E. Park
- 2021: Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, by Taylor G. Petrey
- 2020: Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit in the West, by David Walker
- 2019: The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology, by Jonathan A. Stapley
- 2018: A House Full of Females, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- 2017: American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, by Thomas W. Simpson
- 2016: Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, by W. Paul Reeve
- 2015: For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, by Russell W. Stevenson
- 2014: The Mormon Image in the American Mind, by J. B. Haws
- 2013: Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History, by Brandon Plewe, S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson
- 2012: Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism, by Terryl Givens and Matthew J. Grow
- 2011: Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations, by Mark Lyman Staker
- 2010: "Liberty to the Downtrodden": Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer, by Matthew J. Grow
- 2009: Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy, by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr. and Glen M. Leonard
- 2008: People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture, by Terryl Givens
- 2007: Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History, by Carol Cornwall Madsen
- 2006: Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard L. Bushman
- 2005: The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle, by Kathleen Flake
- 2004: All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage, by Armand Mauss
- 2003: The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-century America, by Sarah Barringer Gordon
- 2002: More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910, by Kathryn M. Daynes
- 2001: Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons, by Jan Shipps
- 2000: George Q. Cannon: A Biography, by Davis Bitton
- 1999: Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young, by Ronald W. Walker
- 1998: In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, by Todd Compton
- 1997: Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch, by Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith
- 1996: The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow, by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
- 1995: Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, by Dean L. May
- 1994: The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism, by Grant Underwood
- 1993: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, by B. Carmon Hardy
- 1992: Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet, by Thomas G. Alexander
- 1991: Father Figure: Joseph Smith III and the Creation of the Reorganized Church, by Roger Launius
- 1990: Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism, by Marvin S. Hill
- 1989: Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian, by Levi S. Peterson
- 1988: Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, by D. Michael Quinn
- 1987: Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-Day Saints 1890-1930, by Thomas G. Alexander
- 1986: Brigham Young: American Moses, by Leonard J. Arrington
- 1985: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, by Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
- 1984: J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years, by D. Michael Quinn
- 1983: Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier, by Juanita Brooks
- 1982: Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community, by Lawrence Foster
- 1982: Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer, by Stanley B. Kimball
- 1980: The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter day Saints, by Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton
- 1979: The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West, by Richard H. Jackson
- 1977: Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation Among the Mormons, by Leonard J. Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean L. May
- 1976: Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith, by Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill
- 1975: Letters of Brigham Young to his Sons, by Dean C. Jessee
- 1974: Take Up Your Mission; Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River 1870-1900, by Charles S. Peterson
- 1973: Utah's Heritage, by S. George Ellsworth
- 1971: The "Americanization" of Utah for Statehood, by Gustive O. Larson
- 1970: Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development, by Richard P. Howard
- 1968: Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History, by Klaus J. Hansen
- 1966: Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi, by Robert Bruce Flanders
- 1966: 100 Years of Utah Painting, by James L. Haseltine