The 1929-30 Recommended Reading Course. Image via By Common Consent. In the old days, a team of General Authorities would choose a list of “Reading List” books every year, and these would become part of the standard youth curriculum. Adults, too, would join in, and over time, there were books for adult classes as well as books for the youth. And the Church actively advertised, distributed, and endorsed these books. Some of them were Church books, but most of them were not. And a lot of them were, like, literature.
