Southwest Books of the Year

Given by Pima County Public Library

Other Names: Southwest Book of the Year, A Southwest Book of the Year
193 Works 28,066 Books 1,378 Reviews ½ 3.9
Categories:
All, Best Reading (33), Notable Book (1), Top Picks (134), Top picks (1), Tucson Pima Library (1), No Category (23)
Years:
All, 2023 (29), 2018 (9), 2017 (8), 2016 (10), 2015 (10), 2014 (8), 2013 (7), 2012 (9), 2011 (15), 2010 (14), 2009 (11), 2008 (12), 2007 (7), 2006 (8), 2005 (9), 2004 (6), 2003 (12), 2000 (8)
WorkCategoryYear
Michael Chiago: O’odham Lifeways Through Art (Southwest Center Series) by Michael Chiago Sr.
Top Picks2023
Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States by Reece Jones
Top Picks2023
Sinking Bell: Stories by Bojan Louis
Top Picks2023
Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
Top Picks2023
Feels Like Home: Linda Ronstadt's Musical Odyssey by Linda Ronstadt
Top Picks2023
Mecca by Susan Straight
Top Picks2023
Marlowe's revenge by Dan Stuart
Top Picks2023
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
Top Picks2023
First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100 by Elizabeth Hightower Allen
2023
Our Day of the Dead Celebration by Ana Aranda
2023
Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling
2023
Tracing Time: Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau by Craig Childs
2023
First Impressions by David Delee
2023
The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton
2023
The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook: The Soul of Mexican Home Cooking by Dave DeWitt
2023
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P. Dobbs
2023
Shutter by Ramona Emerson
2023
The Giving Tree of the Desert: The tale of a saguaro cactus and its nurse tree by Danielle Fradette
2023
Where Wonder Grows by Xelena Gonzalez
2023
Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez
2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
2023
Still Dreaming / Seguimos Soñando by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez
2023
Chances in Disguise by Diana L. Noble
2023
Zig Zag by J.D. O'Brien
2023
Tumble by Celia C. Pérez
2023
Raulito: El Primer Gobernador Latino De Arizona/ the First Latino Governor of Arizona (Spanish and English Edition) by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford
2023
A Place of Thin Veil: Life and Death in Gallup, New Mexico by Bob Rosebrough
2023
Tucumcari Tonite!: A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and the Waning of a Western Town by David H. Stratton
2023
The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands by Patrick Strickland
2023
Lullaby Road by James Anderson
Top Picks2018
The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey by Charles Bowden
Top Picks2018
The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West by John (Watusi) Branch
Top Picks2018
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
Top Picks2018
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
Top Picks2018
A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis by Seamus McGraw
Top Picks2018
John Woman by Walter Mosley
Top Picks2018
Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918 by Heidi J. Osselaer
Top Picks2018
A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert by Karen Piper
Top picks2018
Retribution Rails by Erin Bowman
Best Reading2017
Critical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by John Canaday
Top Picks2017
Some Rise by Sin by Philip Caputo
Top Picks2017
Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor
Top Picks2017
A Photographer's Life: A Journey from Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photojournalist to Celebrated Nature Photographer by Jack Dykinga
Top Picks2017
Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest by Gregory McNamee
Top Picks2017
The Talker: Stories by Mary Sojourner
Top Picks2017
The Blinds: A Novel by Adam Sternbergh
Top Picks2017
The Terranauts by T.C. Boyle
Top Picks2016
The Kid by Ron Hansen
Top Picks2016
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Top Picks2016
Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors by Amy Von Lintel
Top Picks2016
The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide by Eric Magrane
Top Picks2016
Desert Boys: Fiction by Chris McCormick
Top Picks2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
Top Picks2016
The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting by Fernanda Santos
Top Picks2016
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest by Melissa L. Sevigny
Top Picks2016
The Disappearances: A Story of Exploration, Murder, and Mystery in the American West by Scott Thybony
Top Picks2016
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Top Picks2015
All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West by David Gessner
Top Picks2015
Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food by Megan Kimble
Top Picks2015
Chasing Arizona: One Man’s Yearlong Obsession with the Grand Canyon State by Ken Lamberton
Top Picks2015
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus
Top Picks2015
Sonoran Strange by Logan Phillips
Top Picks2015
Night at the Fiestas: Stories by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Top Picks2015
Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire by Margaret Regan
Top Picks2015
Epitaph by Mary Doria Russell
Top Picks2015
The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant
Top Picks2015
Tom Horn in Life and Legend by Larry D. Ball
Top Picks2014
Among Unknown Tribes: Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz by Bill Broyles
Top Picks2014
The King and Queen of Comezón (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas Series) by Denise Chávez
Top Picks2014
Riding Behind the Padre: Horseback Views from Both Sides of the Border by Richard Collins
Top Picks2014
Capture the Magic: Train Your Eye, Improve Your Photographic Composition by Jack Dykinga
Top Picks2014
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
Top Picks2014
Fetch the Devil: The Sierra Diablo Murders and Nazi Espionage in America by Clint Richmond
Top Picks2014
The Quiet Streets of Winslow by Judy Troy
Top Picks2014
The Rules of Wolfe by James Carlos Blake
Top Picks2013
A Natural History of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona; with an Introduction to the Madrean Sky Islands by Richard C. Brusca
Top Picks2013
Baja California missions : in the footsteps of the Padres by David Burckhalter
Top Picks2013
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko
Top Picks2013
Son of a Gun: A Memoir by Justin St. Germain
Top Picks2013
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Top Picks2013
Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall by Krista Schlyer
2013
Virgin of Guadalupe: Art and Legend by John Annerino
Top Picks2012
With Blood in Their Eyes by Thomas Cobb
Top Picks2012
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest by William deBuys
Top Picks2012
Hisat'sinom: Ancient Peoples in a Land without Water by Christian E Downum
Top Picks2012
Shadows on the Mesa: Artists of the Painted Desert and Beyond by Gary Fillmore
Top Picks2012
Hard Country by Michael McGarrity
Top Picks2012
Driven by James Sallis
Top Picks2012
Arizona : a history by Thomas E. Sheridan
Top Picks2012
Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History by Deanne Stillman
Top Picks2012
From This Wicked Patch of Dust by Sergio Troncoso
Notable Book2011
Desert towers : fat cat summits and kitty litter rock by Steve "Crusher" Bartlett
Top Picks2011
Llano Estacado: An Island in the Sky (Voice in the American West) by Stephen Bogener
Top Picks2011
Crazy from the Heat: A Chronicle of Twenty Years in the Big Bend by James H. Evans
Top Picks2011
Old Border Road by Susan Froderberg
Top Picks2011
A Border Runs Through It by Jim Griffith
Top Picks2011
Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist (2011) by Charnell Havens
Top Picks2011
Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist by Julian D. Hayden
Top Picks2011
Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life by Jim Kristofic
Top Picks2011
Cow Country Cooking : Recipes and Tales from Northern Arizona's Historic Ranches by Kathy McCraine
Top Picks2011
The Rio Grande: An Eagle's View by Steve McDowell
Top Picks2011
Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man by David Remley
Top Picks2011
The Killer Is Dying by James Sallis
Top Picks2011
Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State by Jim Turner
Top Picks2011
Queen of America: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea
Top Picks2011
Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez by Charles Bowden
Top Picks2010
Murder city : Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields by Charles Bowden
Top Picks2010
Moctezuma's Table: Rolando Briseno's Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes (Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions) by Norma E. Cantú
Top Picks2010
Butterfly landscapes of New Mexico by Steven J. Cary
Top Picks2010
A Gift of Angels: The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac (Southwest Center Series) by Bernard L. Fontana
Top Picks2010
Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried
Top Picks2010
The Life of Maynard Dixon by Donald J. Hagerty
Top Picks2010
Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado by Steven K. Madsen
Top Picks2010
Santa Fe Nativa: A Collection of Nuevomexicano Writing (Paso Por Aqui Series on the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage) by Rosalie C. Otero
Top Picks2010
The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands by Margaret Regan
Top Picks2010
We are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People by Jeffrey P. Shepherd
Top Picks2010
The Turquoise Ledge: A Memoir by Leslie Marmon Silko
Top Picks2010
The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
Top Picks2010
Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West by Mark Wyman
Top Picks2010
New Mexico Colcha Club: Spanish Colonial Embroidery & the Women Who Saved It by Nancy C. Benson
Top Picks2009
To Walk in Beauty: A Navajo Family's Journey Home by Stacie Spragg- Bradue
Top Picks2009
No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels by Jay Dobyns
Top Picks2009
The Naked Rainbow and Other Stories: El arco iris desnudo y Otros Cuentos by Nasario Garca̕
Top Picks2009
The West of the Imagination by William H. Goetzmann
Top Picks2009
Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby
Top Picks2009
Resurrection: Glen Canyon and a New Vision for the American West by Annette McGivney
Top Picks2009
Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe by Mary Anne Redding
Top Picks2009
A Poetry of Remembrance: New and Rejected Works (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) by Levi Romero
Top Picks2009
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
Top Picks2009
Telling New Mexico: A New History by Marta Weigle
Top Picks2009
Fragile Patterns: The Archaeology of the Western Papagueria by Jeffrey H. Altschul
Top Picks2008
Vanishing Borderlands: The Fragile Landscape of the U.S.-Mexico Border by John Annerino
Top Picks2008
Silver & Stone: Profiles of American Indian Jewelers by Mark Bahti
Top Picks2008
Exodus/Éxodo (Bill and Alice Wright Photography Series) by Charles Bowden
Top Picks2008
If I Die in Juárez (Camino Del Sol) by Stella Pope Duarte
Top Picks2008
Willard Clark : printer & printmaker by David R. Farmer
Top Picks2008
Legacies of Camelot: Stewart and Lee Udall, American Culture, and the Arts by L. Boyd Finch
Top Picks2008
The Hohokam millennium by Suzanne K. Fish
Top Picks2008
Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology by David A. Gregory
Top Picks2008
Bruce Aiken's Grand Canyon: An Intimate Affair by Susan Hallsten McGarry
Top Picks2008
Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts by Gary Paul Nabhan
Top Picks2008
Wings in the Desert: A Folk Ornithology of the Northern Pimans by Amadeo M. Rea
Top Picks2008
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs
Best Reading2007
The Walk by William deBuys
Best Reading2007
Brujerias: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest) by Nasario Garca̕
Best Reading2007
Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821 (Southwest Center Series) by Gloria Fraser Giffords
Best Reading2007
Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection) by Dagoberto Gilb
Best Reading2007
Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street by Paul S. Powers
Best Reading2007
Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer by Richard Shelton
Best Reading2007
Inferno by Charles Bowden
Top Picks2006
Sunshot: Peril and Wonder in the Gran Desierto (Southwest Center Series) by Bill Broyles
Top Picks2006
The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
Top Picks2006
The Reaper's Line: Life and Death on the Mexican Border by Lee Morgan II
Top Picks2006
Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend by Gary L. Roberts
Top Picks2006
Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest by Arthur H. Rohn
Top Picks2006
Landscapes of fraud : Mission Tumacâacori, the Baca Float, and the betrayal of the O'odham by Thomas E. Sheridan
Top Picks2006
Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography by Stephen Trimble
Top Picks2006
The Diezmo: A Novel by Rick Bass
Top Picks2005
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
Top Picks2005
Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas by Troy E. Corman
Top Picks2005
Navajoland: A Native Son Shares his Legacy (Special Scenic Collection) by LeRoy DeJolie
Top Picks2005
Slavery, scandal, and steel rails by David Devine
Top Picks2005
The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932 by Jim Fergus
Top Picks2005
The voice of the Borderlands by Drum Hadley
Top Picks2005
The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival by Brian McGinty
Top Picks2005
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Top Picks2005
Bailing Wire and Gamuza: The True Story of a Family Ranch Near Ramah, New Mexico by Barbara Vogt Mallery
Best Reading2004
Caramba!: A Tale Told in Turns of the Card by Nina Marie Martinez
Best Reading2004
Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman by Kristie Miller
Best Reading2004
Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff
Best Reading2004
Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story by Anna Cypra Oliver
Best Reading2004
Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935 by Martin Padget
Best Reading2004
Brownsville: Stories by Oscar Cásares
Best Reading2003
Battle Rock: The Struggle Over a One-Room School in America's Vanishing West by William Celis
Best Reading2003
The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays by Stanley Crawford
Best Reading2003
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857 by Sally Denton
Best Reading2003
The Mountains Know Arizona: Images of the Land and Stories of Its People by Rose Houk
Best Reading2003
Exit Wounds (Joanna Brady Mysteries, Book 11) by J. A. Jance
Best Reading2003
The Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera by David E. Stuart
Best Reading2003
The Changing Mile Revisited: An Ecological Study of Vegetation Change with Time in the Lower Mile of an Arid and Semiarid Region by Raymond M. Turner
Best Reading2003
Las Misiones Antiguas: The Spanish Missions of Baja California by Edward W. Vernon
Best Reading2003
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat
Best Reading2003
The Parrot Trainer by Swain Wolfe
Best Reading2003
Dissonance by Lisa Lenard-Cook
Tucson Pima Library2003
The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert by Craig Childs
Best Reading2000
Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border by Miriam Davidson
Best Reading2000
The Summoning God by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Best Reading2000
The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey by Grenville Goodwin
Best Reading2000
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Best Reading2000
Under the Sun: A Sonoran Desert Odyssey by Adriel Heisey
Best Reading2000
The Judas Judge (Kevin Kerney Novels) by Michael McGarrity
Best Reading2000
A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by Steven John Phillips
Best Reading2000
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West) by Margot Mifflin

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