We have a fantastic crop of nominees this year!! There are more books this year than ever!
As you’re going through and voting for all of your familiar favorites, I encourage you to check out some of the ones you haven’t heard of yet. I do every year, and the Brodies’ nominees never disappoint!
The polls close on Sunday, January 19th, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. Switzerland time.
Year Long Awards
Best New LDS-Interest Content Creator 2024 (includes new channels and websites, but the earliest post must date no earlier than Nov/Dec 2023)
Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2024
- Radio Free Mormon
- Mormon Discussion Podcast
- Mormon Stories Podcast
- Infants on Thrones
- Girlscamp
- c & A Podcast
- 21st Century Saints
- Second-Class Saints
- Human Stories with Jill Hazard Rowe
- Latter Gay Stories
- Sunstone Mormon History Podcast
Best LDS-Interest Video Channel 2024
- Alyssa Grenfell
- Zelph on the Shelf
- Nemo the Mormon
- The Cultural Hall
- Data over Dogma
- Exmo Lex
- Mormon Civil War
- Cults to Consciousness
- Latter-daily Digest
- TheBackyardProfessor
Best LDS-Interest Discussion Community/Forum 2024
Best LDS-Interest Social Media Contributor 2024
Funniest LDS-Interest Humor Site 2024
- The Lord’s Newsroom
- Trekxmo
- It Just Gets Stranger, by Eli McCann
- Daily Mormon
- r/exmormonmemes
Best LDS-Interest Informational Site 2024
Biggest Mormon Douche Canoe supporting the exmo cause 2024 (Normally I would not allow this category because the Brodies are not intended to be a negative/booby prize, but this category came in from r/mormon, so maybe it’s OK to throw in just one…)
- Hildebrandt
- Ballard(s)
- Bundy
- Bednar
- Hansen
Awards for Individual Works
Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2024
- Tales of Unworthiness, by Paul H. Dumm
- American Trinity, by David G. Pace
- Wrecking Balls: Our People, by E. C. Browne
Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction) 2024
- The Book of Queer Mormon Joy, edited by Kerry Spencer Pray
- Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to my New Life as a Woman, by Laurie Lee Hall
- The Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration, by Nathan Kitchen
Best LDS-Interest Book (non-narrative, non-fiction) 2024
- How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon’s Guide to Rebuilding After Religion, by Alyssa Grenfell
- American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E Park
- Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Matthew L. Harris
- Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization, by Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith
- The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah, by Erin Stiles
Best LDS-Interest Work of Poetry or Scripture 2024
- Book of the Lavens, by Evan Sharley
- The NEW Book of Abraham – Chapter 1, by Infants on Thrones
- Objetos de [des]amor: Loss and Longing through a Godless Queer Chicano Lens, by Juan Antonio Trujillo
Best LDS-Interest Song 2024
- I turned Choose the Right into an ExMormon Hymn Parody, by Cultural Hall
- Sacrament, by Die Shiny
- Gaslight Me, by Irene’s Entropy
- Hell Together, by David Archuleta
Best LDS-Interest Image 2024
- LDS Church Faces New Class-Action as Members Demand Their Planets
- President Nelson Making More Changes on a Whim..
- Mormon Missionaries, Steinbach 964
Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2024
- Church Leaders Worry Prominent LDS Therapist Openly Promoting Healthy Emotional Skills, by the Lord’s Newsroom
- Another Mormon Horror Story, by Donna Banta
- Raising Mime Awareness, by Zelph on the Shelf
Best Exit Story 2024
- Why I No Longer Believe in God (From Mormon to Atheist), by Alyssa Grenfell
- My Excommunication is Official, by Nemo the Mormon
- Leaving the Mormon Church Pt. 3, by c & A Podcast
- Why I left, by The Bishop’s Interview
Best LDS-Interest Short Video 2024
- It’s culty now but it used to be WAYYYY wilder… by Alyssa Grenfell
- Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon? by Nemo the Mormon
- Mormon Quotes about Women, by ExmoLex
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2024
- Human Stories: Jenni Gracesun
- The Secret Life of an (Ex) Mormon Wife with Jessi Ngatikaura
- Getting Your Own Planet in Mormonism, by RFM
- Former Mormons react to Heretic, by Girlscamp
Best LDS-Interest Investigative Reporting 2024
- How the Mormon Church BULLIES Small Towns, by Nemo the Mormon
- Heaven’s Helpline, by Murray Jones
- Utah Bills Itself as “Family-Friendly” Even as Lawmakers Have Long Neglected Child Care, by ProPublica
- The Widow’s Mite Report
Best Activism within the LDS Church 2024
- 21st Century Saints for their work advocating for victims of abuse.
- Rebecca Biblioteca and Nemo the Mormon for challenging the McKinney, Texas Temple steeple height
- James Huntsman, Laura Gaddy, Lyle D. Small and Leanne R. Harris for their ongoing tithing/fraud lawsuits that had federal court hearings in 2024
Most Insightful Analysis of LDS Culture or Doctrine 2024
- Ballerina Farm and the illusion of choice for Mormon women, by Zelph on the Shelf
- Tapirs are Hate Speech Now? by Nemo the Mormon
- God the Monster, by Holly Welker
- Mormons, I Will Never Forgive You, by Johnny Townsend
- Responding to the Church’s Instagram Snafu, by Anonymous (Exponent II)
Best LDS History Piece 2024
- The Top 15 Evidences Against Book of Mormon Historicity, by Mormon Discussion Inc.
- Did the LDS Church Support the Nazis?, by Radio Free Mormon
- Is “biblical womanhood” real? by Zelph on the Shelf
- How a Non-Canonical Gospel Shaped Christmas, by John Hamer and Centre Place
Best Analysis of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2024
- Mormon Church Appeases Bigoted Members with New Transgender Policy, by Cultural Hall
- Second-Class Saints, by Matthew L. Harris
- Community, Exponent II’s Secret to Endurance, by Monya Baker
- Their Not-So-Secret-Lives, by Haley Swenson
Best LDS-Interest (Post/Episode) Title 2024
- Mormon Polygamous Men Were Really Bad at Sex: a Hypothesis, by Abby Maxwell Hansen
- Raising Mime Awareness, by Zelph on the Shelf
- Drunk Friend’s Text Written in Perfect Chiasmus, by the Lord’s Newsroom
Good luck to everyone, and may the best content creators win!!!
