The library
What's actually in here
Every work indexed in MormonGPT, with what we hold of each. Not summaries — the full texts, split fine enough to cite by verse, paragraph, page and discourse.
MormonGPT indexes the full text of these works — not summaries, and not extracts. Each is split finely enough that an answer can cite the verse, page, paragraph or discourse it came from, and every citation points back to a real location in a real edition.
This page is the shelf list. Every work links onward — to our own guide where one exists, otherwise to the best public edition of the text itself, whether that is the church's own site, the Joseph Smith Papers, Internet Archive or Project Gutenberg.
Scripture and the early revelation texts
| Work | Sources indexed | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Holy Bible (KJV) | 1,192 | Current LDS edition |
| Book of Mormon | 605 | 1830 first edition, 1981, and current |
| Doctrine and Covenants | 143 | Current edition |
| Book of Commandments | 64 | 1833 printing — the D&C's predecessor |
| Pearl of Great Price | 21 | Current edition |
The 1830 Book of Mormon and the 1833 Book of Commandments are held alongside the modern texts, aligned passage by passage, which is what makes questions about textual change answerable.
The pulpit
| Work | Sources indexed | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| General Conference | 6,091 | April 1942 to the present |
| Conference Report | 2,465 | 1897–1941 — the only full record of those years |
| Journal of Discourses | 1,426 | 26 volumes, 1854–1886 |
Together these run from 1854 to the present with one gap, which makes the record long enough to measure change across.
The founding era
| Work | Sources indexed | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Smith Papers: Documents | 5,000 | Letters, revelations, minutes, discourses, 1827–1844 |
| Wilford Woodruff's Journal | 726 | December 1833 to August 1898 |
| Scriptural Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith | 523 | BYU edition |
| Times and Seasons | 131 | Nauvoo, 1839–1846 |
| Joseph Smith Papers: Histories | 44 | Early histories and draft material |
| Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate | 36 | Kirtland, 1834–1837 |
| The Seer | 20 | Orson Pratt, Washington D.C., 1853–1854 |
| Joseph Smith Papers: Journals | 20 | 1832–1844 |
| The Lectures on Faith | 8 | 1835 |
| Elders' Journal | 4 | The only periodical Joseph Smith edited himself |
| The Evening and the Morning Star | 3 | The church's first periodical, 1832–1834 |
The periodicals
| Work | Sources indexed | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| The Improvement Era | 16,000+ | Complete run, 1897–1970 |
| The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star | 2,861 | 1840–1905 |
| Relief Society Magazine | 477 | 1915–1961 |
| Woman's Exponent | 21 volumes | 1873–1913, indexed whole |
The Improvement Era is the largest single body of material here — the complete seventy-three-year run of the church's own magazine, and very little of it exists in browsable form anywhere else.
Doctrinal books and commentary
| Work | Sources indexed | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Mormon Doctrine | 1,451 | 1966 second edition — one source per entry |
| Jesus the Christ | 44 | James E. Talmage |
| The Articles of Faith | 27 | Talmage, 1919 edition |
| The Miracle of Forgiveness | 24 | Spencer W. Kimball, 1969 |
| The House of the Lord | 12 | Talmage, 1912 |
Official and administrative
| Work | Sources indexed | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Hymns | 421 | 1985 hymnbook and Hymns for Home and Church |
| Church Newsroom | 280 | 2007 to the present |
| General Handbook | 41 | Current edition |
| Preach My Gospel | 41 | 2004 and 2023 editions |
| For the Strength of Youth | 34 | 2001 and 2022 editions |
| Gospel Topics Essays | 15 | Current |
| First Presidency Letters | 12 | Collected individually |
| Missionary Standards for Disciples of Jesus Christ | 8 | 2019 |
| Internal Church Documents | 3 | Recorded with the source each copy came from |
| The Family: A Proclamation to the World | 1 | 1995 |
| The Living Christ | 1 | 2000 |
| Church Statements and Pamphlets | 1 | Collected |
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