This is intended to be an index of all Latter-day Saint books available on Project Gutenberg. As we produce blog posts offering a bit of explanation and commentary about a given work, they’ll be referenced here.

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Available Texts by Author

Joseph Smith (1805-1844)

• The Book of Mormon
• History of the Church: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, related post(s)
• The Lectures on Faith
• The Wentworth Letter
• General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States

Parley P. Pratt (1807-1857)

• A Voice of Warning
• Key to the Science of Theology
• The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt
• The Millennium, and Other Poems

Orson Pratt (1811-1881)

• An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions – related post(s)
  
• Absurdities of Immaterialism – related post(s)
  
• The Kingdom of God, Part I – related post(s)
• Divine Authority – related post(s)
• The Bible and Polygamy

John Taylor (1808-1887)

• An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ – related post(s)
• The Government of God – related post(s)
• Items on the Priesthood – related post(s)

Orson F. Whitney (1855-1931)

• Elias: An Epic of the Ages
• Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle
• The Strength of the ‘Mormon’ Position
• Gospel Themes
• Saturday Night Thoughts

B. H. Roberts (1857-1933)

• The Gospel: An Exposition of its First Principles
• The Life of John Taylor – related post(s)
• The Mormon Doctrine of Deity – related post(s)
• Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher
• Corianton: A Nephite Story – related post(s)
• The Mormon Battalion: Its History and Achievements – related post(s)
• New Witnesses for God Vol. 1, Vol. 2 , Vol. 3 – related post(s)
• Defense of the Faith and the Saints Vol. 1, Vol. 2
• The Seventy’s Course in Theology Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 – related post(s)
• The Missouri Persecutions
• The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
• Outlines of Ecclesiastical History
• Edited the History of the Church (see Joseph Smith)

James E. Talmage (1862-1933)

• Jesus the Christ
• The Story of “Mormonism” and The Philosophy of “Mormonism” – Audiobook of “The Story of ‘Mormonism'”
• The Great Apostasy – Audiobook
• The Articles of Faith
• The House of the Lord – related post(s)
  
• The Vitality of Mormonism: An Address – related post(s)
• The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays – related post(s)

John A Widtsoe (1872-1952)

• Discourses of Brigham Young (editor)
• Rational Theology, As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Joseph Smith as Scientist: A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy

Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972)

• Essentials in Church History
• Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage
• Salvation Universal
• Origin of the ‘Reorganized’ Church and the Question of Succession

Nephi Anderson (1865-1923)

• A Young Folks’ History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Added Upon
• Story of Chester Lawrence
• Dorian

Faith-Promoting Series

1. My First Mission by George Q. Cannon – related post(s)
2. A String of Pearls
3. Leaves from My Journal by Wilford Woodruff – related post(s)
4. Gems for the Young Folk
5. Jacob Hamblin by James A. Little
6. Fragments of Experience
7. President Heber C. Kimball’s Journal
8. Early Scenes in Church History
9. The Life of Nephi by George Q. Cannon
10. Scraps of Biography by Various
11. The Myth of the “Manuscript Found” by George Reynolds
12. Labors in the Vineyard
13. Eventful Narratives
14. Helpful Visions
15. Treasures in Heaven
16. Precious Memories
17. Gems of Reminiscence

Pioneer Journals, Biographies, & Autobiographies

• Forty Years Among the Indians by Daniel Jones – related posts
• Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847 by John R. Young – related post(s)
• Life of a Pioneer by James S. Brown – related post(s)
• William Clayton’s Journal by William Clayton

Mormon Women

• Lydia Knight’s History by Susa Young Gates
• Heroines of Mormondom – related post(s)
• Women of Mormondom by Edward Tullidge – related post(s)
• Representative Women of Deseret by Augusta Joyce Crocheron – related post(s)

Fiction

• Hephzibah by Emmeline B. Wells (not on Project Gutenberg; link goes to old MTP site)
• The Cities of the Sun by Elizabeth Rachel Cannon – related post(s)
• The Great Experience by Julia Farr – related post(s)
• Venna Hastings by Julia Farr – related post(s)
• Mr. Durant of Salt Lake City: That Mormon by Ben E. Rich
• See also B. H. Roberts’ Corianton, above
• See also Nephi Anderson’s works, above

Other Topics & Authors

• Spencer’s Letters by Orson Spencer – related post(s)
• Discourses of Brigham Young edited by John A. Widtsoe
• Gospel Doctrine by Joseph F. Smith – related post(s)
• The Mormons: A Discourse by Thomas L. Kane – related post(s)
• Wilford Woodruff: History of his Life and Labors as Recorded in his Daily Journals by Wilford Woodruff and Matthias F. Cowley
• Scrap Book of Mormon Literature vol. 1
• Scrap Book of Mormon Literature vol. 2 – related post(s)
• The Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet by George Q. Cannon – related post(s)
• The Latter-Day Prophet: History of Joseph Smith Written for Young People by George Q. Cannon
• Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles – related post(s)
• Cowley’s Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley
• Ancient Apostles by David O. McKay
• Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow by Eliza R. Snow Smith
• A Voice from Jerusalem by Orson Hyde – related post(s)
• Gospel Philosophy: Showing the Absurdities of Infidelity, and the Harmony of the Gospel with Science and History by J. H. Ward – related post(s)
• The Plan of Salvation by John Morgan
• What Jesus Taught by Osborne Widtsoe – related post(s)
• The Restoration of the Gospel by Osborne Widtsoe
• The Mormons and the Theatre or The History of Theatricals in Utah by John S. Lindsay
• Mormon Doctrine Plain and Simple by Charles W. Penrose
• Rays of Living Light on the One Way of Salvation by Charles W. Penrose
• Mormon Settlement in Arizona by James H. McClintock
• Life of David Patten by Lycurgus Wilson
• Outlines of Mormon Philosophy by Lycurgus Wilson
• Reminiscences of Joseph the Prophet by Edward Stevenson
• Book of Mormon Stories: Adapted to the Capacity of Young Children by George Q. Cannon
• The Story of the Book of Mormon by George Reynolds
• Mother Stories from the Book of Mormon by William A. Morton
• Sinners and Saints by Phil Robinson – related post(s)
• Being a Summary Statement of the Investigation made by the British Government of the “Mormon” Question in England – related post(s)

Other Sources

The Church makes e-books of current Church publications (conference, manuals, etc.) available here.

The Maxwell Institute offers WordCruncher, a study software that uses a proprietary e-book format and offers a variety of public domain content, including early Church periodicals and a few other things MTP hasn’t yet got up on Project Gutenberg. (They’ve kindly offered us access to their content and vice versa.)

Archive.org has PDF scans and OCR text of many early Mormon works; it’s the source of the scans used to produce most of MTP’s e-books.