Must-Read Books About the Southwest

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The Water Knife
by Paolo Bacigalupi
2,141 members
103 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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sturlington: future Phoenix, Arizona
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The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
10,754 members
193 reviews
4
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
6,911 members
174 reviews
4
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The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
6,837 members
248 reviews
4.1
Member
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5
Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
4,088 members
68 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
6
Doc: A Novel
by Mary Doria Russell
1,541 members
180 reviews
4.1
Member
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8
In the Heart of the Canyon
by Elisabeth Hyde
312 members
17 reviews
4
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
7,910 members
385 reviews
½ 4.3
10
Hounded
by Kevin Hearne
3,869 members
300 reviews
3.9
11
The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Edward Abbey
3,299 members
59 reviews
3.9
12
Meet Josefina: An American Girl
by Valerie Tripp
2,990 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
13
The Blessing Way
by Tony Hillerman
2,551 members
80 reviews
3.8
14
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
by Hampton Sides
2,209 members
47 reviews
4.1
15
These Is My Words
by Nancy E. Turner
2,025 members
92 reviews
½ 4.3
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Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
1,831 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Milagro Beanfield War
by John Nichols
1,254 members
20 reviews
4.1
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
by Terry Tempest Williams
1,237 members
23 reviews
4.2
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Spider Woman's Daughter
by Anne Hillerman
1,082 members
71 reviews
½ 3.7
20
Desert Heat
by J. A. Jance
1,044 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
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Weedflower
by Cynthia Kadohata
1,032 members
45 reviews
4
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Ramona
by Helen Hunt Jackson
860 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
23
Everybody Sees the Ants
by A. S. King
832 members
64 reviews
4.1
24
Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
by Oliver La Farge
826 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
25
Touched by an Alien
by Gini Koch
659 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
26
She Who Remembers
by Linda Lay Shuler
637 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
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Vengeance Road
by Erin Bowman
594 members
41 reviews
3.8
28
Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
by Laurie Lisle
543 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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Rage Against the Dying
by Becky Masterman
533 members
49 reviews
3.8
30
The Visitant
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
524 members
8 reviews
3.9
31
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
by Craig Childs
504 members
12 reviews
4
32
The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors
by Francisco Stork
375 members
23 reviews
4
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Otherbound
by Corinne Duyvis
356 members
21 reviews
3.9
34
Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories
by Elmore Leonard
293 members
9 reviews
3.8
35
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
by Hannah Nordhaus
273 members
21 reviews
½ 3.4
36
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
by Linda Ronstadt
270 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
37
The Guardians
by Ana Castillo
247 members
92 reviews
3.1
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All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
by David Gessner
215 members
7 reviews
4.2
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The Jaguar's Children
by John Vaillant
215 members
19 reviews
4.1
40
The Brothers Torres
by Coert Voorhees
201 members
17 reviews
4
41
Night at the Fiestas: Stories
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
192 members
7 reviews
4
42
Zia Summer
by Rudolfo Anaya
178 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
43
Blackening Song
by Aimée Thurlo
173 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
44
Pieces of Sky
by Kaki Warner
171 members
7 reviews
3.9
45
Bad Country
by CB McKenzie
153 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
46
The Grand Canyon and the Southwest
by Ansel Adams
138 members
3.8
47
Pretty Crooked
by Elisa Ludwig
131 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
48
If I Fix You
by Abigail Johnson
115 members
6 reviews
½ 3.3
49
Dawn Comes Early (The Brides Of Last Chance Ranch Series)
by Margaret Brownley
108 members
5 reviews
4
50
Wraiths of the Broken Land
by S. Craig Zahler
108 members
3 reviews
3.8
51
Desert Dark
by Sonja Stone
95 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
52
Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food
by Megan Kimble
93 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
53
My Tata's Remedies / Los remedios de mi Tata
by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford
92 members
11 reviews
½ 4.6
55
Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
by Margaret Regan
84 members
22 reviews
4.2
56
What Price Paradise
by Katherine Allred
78 members
6 reviews
3.8
57
The Carrion Birds: A Novel
by Urban Waite
76 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
58
Once in a Promised Land
by Laila Halaby
68 members
3.1
59
Cool in Tucson
by Elizabeth Gunn
67 members
3 reviews
3.8
60
Changing Light: A Novel
by Nora Gallagher
64 members
1 review
4
62
Return of the Bones
by Belinda Vasquez Garcia
59 members
1 review
4
63
One True Theory of Love
by Laura Fitzgerald
59 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
64
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
by Judith Nies
58 members
4.2
65
How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family
by Peter Nabokov
56 members
1 review
4
66
The Way Home
by Megan Chance
51 members
2 reviews
3.9
67
Hip Hip Hooray, It's Monsoon Day! (Spanish and English Edition)
by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford
47 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
68
The Tijuana Book of the Dead
by Luis Alberto Urrea
45 members
1 review
4.2
69
Crossing Purgatory: A Novel
by Gary Schanbacher
36 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
70
Walks Away Woman
by Ki Longfellow
29 members
1 review
½ 4.5
71
Under the Eagle: Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
by Samuel Holiday
25 members
5
72
The Quiet Streets of Winslow
by Judy Troy
24 members
½ 3.5
73
Tainted Mountain (A Nora Abbott Mystery)
by Shannon Baker
23 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
75
Sizzle
by Lee McClain
19 members
1 review
3
76
Trauma Red: The Making of a Surgeon in War and in America's Cities
by Peter Rhee
19 members
3
77
Words Like Love (West End Press New Series)
by Tanaya Winder
19 members
81
Red-Inked Retablos (Camino del Sol)
by Rigoberto González
14 members
4
82
An Anthropologist's Arrival: A Memoir
by Ruth M. Underhill
14 members
83
Where They Bury You
by Steven W. Kohlhagen
13 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
85
Sunland: A Novel (WEST WORD FICTION)
by Don Waters
9 members
89
Tortilla Chronicles: Growing Up in Santa Fe
by Marie Romero Cash
7 members
½ 3.5
90
Demigods on Speedway
by Aurelie Sheehan
7 members
91
Taming Shadows (Revelations Trilogy) (Volume 1)
by Fiona Skye
6 members
2 reviews
3
94
Wake Up Maggie
by Beth Yarnall
5 members
2
96
Under Dark Sky Law
by Tamara Boyens
4 members
1 review
½ 3.5
97
Sonoran Strange
by Logan Phillips
2 members