The twelve books

1 Nephi 1–18 · Written in draft

A family leaves Jerusalem for a land they have never seen.

1 Nephi 19 – Omni 1:11 · Written in draft

One brother's unforgiven wound becomes a nation's inheritance.

Omni 1:12 – Mosiah 29 · Written in draft

Good kings, their heirs, and the end of kings.

Alma 1–35 · Written in draft

With the kings gone: the sword or the word.

Alma 36 – Helaman 2 · Written in draft

A would-be king talks a peaceful people into war.

Helaman 3 – 3 Nephi 7 · Written in draft

Samuel on the wall, and a people waiting for a sign.

3 Nephi 8 – 4 Nephi 1:22 · Written in draft

Three days of darkness, and the Savior at the temple.

4 Nephi · Written in draft

Two hundred years of peace, and how it slipped away.

Mormon 1 – Moroni 10 · Written in draft

Mormon keeps the record; Moroni carries it alone.

Joseph Smith—History 1:27–65; Doctrine and Covenants 3, 5, 6–10, 17 · Written in draft

From a hill in New York to Grandin's press.

From Eve to the day Christ comes again · Written in draft

The whole human story, one life at a time.

Joseph Smith's family, from the 1750s to 1844 · Written in draft

The family the record came to, told as history.