The 100 Most Popular Southwest Titles
published over the last decade
In order of popularity:
Of course, the most recent titles haven't had time to catch up with the
somewhat older ones, even if new books may be very popular. So the detailed order on this
list changes rapidly, even week to week or month to month. A few children's titles appear:
the very popular Josefina books. (And we do love our mysteries: all of the
first 25 titles on this list are mysteries.)
- The first eagle / Tony Hillerman
- Tularosa / Michael McGarrity
- Hunting badger / Tony Hillerman
- Mexican hat / Michael McGarrity
- Serpent gate : a Kevin Kerney novel / Michael McGarrity
- Biting the moon / Martha Grimes
- The Judas judge : a Kevin Kerney novel / Michael McGarrity
- Hermit's Peak : a Kevin Kerney novel / Michael McGarrity
- Under the color of law : a Kevin Kerney novel / Michael McGarrity
- Los Alamos / Joseph Kanon
- The wailing wind / Tony Hillerman
- The fallen man / Tony Hillerman
- The sinister pig / Tony Hillerman
- Skinwalkers / Tony Hillerman
- Rio Grande fall / Rudolfo Anaya
- The big gamble : a Kevin Kerney novel / Michael McGarrity
- A desperate silence : a novel / Sarah Lovett
- Ill wind / Nevada Barr
- Cities of the Plain / Cormac McCarthy
- Rainbow's end : a Richard Jury novel / Martha Grimes
- Hotshots : a Neil Hamel mystery / Judith van Giesen
- Blind descent / Nevada Barr
- Day hikes in the Santa Fe area / by the Santa Fe Group of the Sierra Club
- Bad medicine / Ron Querry
- Remember me : a novel / Laura Hendrie
- The myth of Santa Fe : creating a modern regional tradition / Chris Wilson
- Accustomed to the dark / Walter Satterthwait
- Zia summer / Rudolfo Anaya
- Santa Fe, a pictorial history / by John Sherman
- Meet Josefina, an American girl / by Valerie Tripp
- Standoff / Sandra Brown.
- Enemy way / Aimée & David Thurlo
- Everyone dies : a Kevin Kerney novel / Michael McGarrity
- Ditch rider : a Neil Hamel mystery / Judith van Giesen
- Dangerous attachments / Sarah Lovett
- The road to Santa Fe / Norman Zollinger
- New Mexico gardener's guide : the what, where, when, how & why of gardening in New Mexico / Judith Phillips
- Acquired motives / Sarah Lovett
- Red mesa / Aimée & David Thurlo
- Lair of the lizard / E.C. Ayres
- Cities of the plain / Cormac Mc Carthy
- The stolen blue : a Claire Reynier mystery / Judith Van Gieson
- The shaman laughs / James D. Doss
- Shooting chant / Aimee & David Thurlo
- Sabino's map : life in Chimayo's old plaza / by Don J. Usner
- Vanishing point : a Claire Reynier mystery / Judith van Giesen
- Dead man's walk : a novel / Larry McMurtry
- Extreme denial / David Morrell
- Glorieta Pass / P.G. Nagle
- Before she dies / by Steven F. Havill.
- Josefina's surprise : a Christmas story / by Valerie Tripp
- Turn left at the Sleeping Dog : scripting the Santa Fe legend, 1920-1955 / John Pen La Farge [editor]
- Banana Rose / Natalie Goldberg
- Death walker / Aimée & David Thurlo
- Cavern / Jake Page
- Josefina learns a lesson : a school story / by Valerie Tripp
- Shaman winter / Rudolfo Anaya
- Behind adobe walls : the hidden homes and gardens of Santa Fe and Taos / by Landt Dennis
- Hiking the mountain trails of Santa Fe : a guide to trails, people, places, and events / by Kay Matthews
- The visitant / Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear
- Bad medicine / Aimée & David Thurlo
- Parrot blues : a Neil Hamel mystery / Judith Van Gieson
- Rio Grande high style : furniture craftsmen / by Elmo Baca
- The lethal partner / Jake Page
- Secret gardens of Santa Fe / Sydney LeBlanc
- Perdido / Rick Collignon
- New Mexico style : a sourcebook of traditional architectural details / Nancy Hunter Warren
- Confidence woman : a Claire Reynier mystery / Judith Van Gieson
- Thunderhead / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
- Loving Pedro Infante : a novel / Denise Chávez
- Signature murder / Pat Frieder
- The knotted strings / Jake Page
- Changing woman / Aimée and David Thurlo
- The scalpel and the silver bear / Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
- The Wilder sisters : a novel / Jo-Ann Mapson
- Digging up momma : a Samantha Adams mystery / Sarah Shankman
- Warrior Circle : a Howard Moon Deer mystery / Robert Westbrook
- The journal of Antonio Montoya : a novel / by Rick Collignon
- Savage pilgrims : on the road to Santa Fe / Henry Shukman
- People of the silence / Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
- 75 hikes in New Mexico / Craig Martin
- The food of Santa Fe : authentic recipes from the American Southwest / essays and recipes by Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach
- Meridian : a novel of Kit Carson's West / Norman Zollinger
- Spanish New Mexico : the Spanish Colonial Arts Society collection / edited by Donna Pierce and Marta Weigle
- The shadow catcher / Micah S. Hackler
- Dreamer / Jack Butler
- Santa Fe crazy / Ron Hutchison
- Fire in the mind : science, faith, and the search for order / George Johnson
- Trinity fields / Bradford Morrow
- In search of the old ones : exploring the Anasazi world of the Southwest / David Roberts
- Prolonged exposure / Steven Havill
- Nobody's girl / Antonya Nelson
- Honeymoons can be murder / Connie Shelton
- Natural by design : beauty and balance in Southwest gardens / Judith Phillips
- Border prey : a Rachel Porter mystery / Jessica Speart
- Vanishing Point : a Claire Reynier mystery / Judith van Giesen
- Dirty laundry : 100 days in a Zen monastery / Robert Winson, Mirian Sagan
- The battle of Glorieta Pass : a Gettysburg in the West, March 26-
28, 1862 / Thomas S. Edrington and John Taylor
- The royal road : El Camino Real from Mexico City to Santa Fe /
photographs by Christine Preston ; text by Douglas Preston and
José Antonio Esquibel
- Land of burning heat : a Claire Reynier mystery / Judith Van Gieson
- Thunderwoman : a mythic novel of the Pueblos / Nancy Wood
- Of time and change : a memoir / Frank Waters
- Best plants for New Mexico gardens and landscapes : keyed to cities and regions / Baker H. Morrow
- Adobe angels : the ghosts of Santa Fe and Taos / Antonio R.
Garcez
- Touring New Mexico / Pol
- Ghost dancer : a Howard Moon Deer mystery / Robert Westbrook
- Brujas, bultos, y brasas : tales of witchcraft and the
supernatural in the Pecos Valley / Collected and edited by
Nasario García
- A certain malice / Jake Page
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