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Santa Fe Readers' Choices: New Mexico and Southwest Books
Most popular titles of the last fifteen years
Listed here in the order they appear on the shelves of the Southwest Room

Fiction
[photo: the circulating shelves] Edward Abbey, The Brave Cowboy (1956)
                    Fool's Progress (1988)
                    Hayduke Lives! (1989)
Rudolfo A. Anaya, Alburquerque (1992)
                    Bless Me, Ultima (1972)
                    Cuentos Chicanos (1984)
Adolf Bandelier, The Delight Makers (1918)
Richard Bradford, Red Sky at Morning (1968)
                    So Far from Heaven (1973)
Ana Castillo, So Far from God (1993)
Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Fray Angelico Chavez, The Short Stories of Fray Angelico Chavez (1987)
Denise Chávez, Face of an Angel (1994)
Rick Collignon, Perdido (1997)
Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini (1993)
Natalie Goldberg, Banana Rose (1995)
Martha Grimes, Biting the Moon (1999)
Gerald Hausman, Stargazer : a Native American inquiry into extraterrestrial phenomena (1988)
Laura Hendrie, Remember Me (1999)
Louis L'Amour, The Haunted Mesa (1987)
Oliver La Farge, The Door in the Wall: Stories (1965)
                    Laughing Boy (1929)
Laughlin, Ruth, The Wind Leaves No Shadow (1951)
James Magnuson, Ghost Dancing (1989)
Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain (1988)
Larry McMurtry, Anything for Billy (1988)
                    Dead Man's Walk (1995)
N. Scott Momaday, Ancient Child (1989)
                    House Made of Dawn (1968)
David Morrell, Extrme Denial (1996)
P. G. Nagle, Glorieta Pass (1999)
John Nichols, The Magic Journey (1978)
                    The Milagro Beanfield War (1974)
Jake Page, Cavern (2000)
Douglas Preston, Thunderhead (1999)
Ronald B. Querry, The Death of Bernadette Left-Hand (1993)
                    Bad Medicine (1998)
Orlando Romero, Nambe--Year One (1976)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
Martin Cruz Smith, Nightwing (1991)
                    Stallion Gate (1986)
Elizabeth Tallent, Museum Pieces (1985)
Frank Waters, Flight from Fiesta (1986)
                    Man who Killed the Deer(1970)
                    People of the Valley(1941)
                    The Woman at Otowi Crossing (1988)
Norman Zollinger, Road to Santa Fe (2002)

Mysteries
     (Mysteries are interfiled with Fiction in the Southwest Room, but are separated here for easier identification)
Rudolfo A. Anaya, Rio Grande Fall (1996)
                    Shaman Winter (1999)
                    Zia Summer (1995)
E. C. Ayres, Lair of the Lizard (1998)
Nevada Barr, Blind Descent (1998)
                    Ill Wind (1995)
Sandra Brown, Standoff (2000)
Cecil Dawkins, Clay Dancers (1994)
                    The Santa Fe Rembrandt (1993)
James D. Doss, The Shaman Laughs (1995)
                    The Shaman Sings (1994)
J. F. Freedman, Against the Wind (1991)
Kathleen O'Neal Gear, The Visitant (1999)
Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End (1995)
Tony Hillerman,
       The Blessing Way (1970)
       Coyote Waits (1990)
       Dance Hall of the Dead (1973)
       The Dark Wind (1982)
       The Fallen Man (1996)
       The First Eagle (1998)
       Ghostway (1985)
       Hunting Badger (1998)
       The Jim Chee Mysteries (1990)
        The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries (1989)
       Listening Woman (1978)
       People of Darkness (1980)
       Sacred Clowns (1993)
       The Sinister Pig (2003)
       Skinwalkers (1987)
       Talking God (1989)
       A Thief of Time (1988)
       The Wailing Wind (2002)
Joseph Kanon, Los Alamos (1997)
Sarah Lovett, Acquired Motives (1996)
                    Dangerous Attachments (1995)
                    A Desperate Silence (1998)
Robert Mayer, The Search (1986)
A. E. Maxwell, The Art of Survival (1989)
Michael McGarrity, Hermit's Peak (1999)
                    The Big Gamble (2002)
                    Hermit's Peak (1999)
                    The Judas Judge (2000)
                    Mexican Hat (1997)
                    Serpent Gate (1998)
                    Tularosa (1996)
                    Under the Color of Law (2001)
Jake Page, The Deadly Canyon (1994)
                    The Stolen Gods (1993)
                    The Lethal Partner (1996)
Walter Satterthwait, Accustomed to the Dark (1996)
                    At Ease with the Dead (1990)
                    A Flower in the Desert (1992)
                    The Hanged Man (1993)
                    Wall of Glass (1988)
Richard Martin Stern, Tangled Murders (1989)
Aimée & David Thurlo, Death Walker (1996)
                    Enemy Way (1998)
                    Red Mesa (2001)
                    Second Shadow (1993)
                    Shooting Chant (2000)
Judith van Gieson,
       Ditch Rider (1998)
       Hotshots (1996)
       Lies that Bind (1993)
       North of the Border (1988)
       The Other Side of Death (1991) 		       Parrot Blues (1995)
       Raptor (1990)
       The Stolen Blue (2000)
       Vanishing Point (2001)
       The Wolf Path (1992)

Non-fiction
133.1     Antonio R. Garcez, Adobe Angels : the ghosts of Santa Fe (1992)
133.40978     Marc Simmons, Witchcraft in the Southwest; Spanish and Indian supernaturalism (1978)

271.79     Marta Weigle, Brother of Light, Brothers of Blood : the Penitentes of the Southwest (1976)

333.72     John Nichols, On the Mesa (1986)
333.91     Stanley Crawford, Mayordomo : chronicle of an acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988)
345.025     Marc Simmons, Murder on the Santa Fe Trail : an international incident, 1843 (1987)
364.1523     Rodney Barker, The Broken Circle : a true story of murder and magic in Indian country (1992)
398.0978     Marta Weigle, The Lore of New Mexico (1988)
398.2     Jose Griego y Maestas, Cuentos : tales from the Hispanic Southwest (1980)
398.2     Joe Hayes, The day it snowed tortillas : tales from Spanish New Mexico (1982)

Natural History
557.89     Halka Chronic, Roadside Geology of New Mexico (1986)
560      Barry Kues, Fossils of New Mexico (1982)
568.19     Ronald Ratkevich, Dinosaurs of the Southwest (1976)
581.9     Gail D. Tierney, Roadside Plants of Northern New Mexico (1983)
582      Francis Elmore, Shrubs and trees of the Southwest Uplands (1976)
582.13     William C. Martin, Summer Wildflowers of New Mexico (1986)
599     James S. Findley, Natural History of New Mexican Mammals (1986)

Gardening, Cooking
635      Los Alamos Garden Club, High Altitude Gardening (1967)
635.097     Stanley Crawford, A Garlic Testament : seasons on a small New Mexico farm (1992)
635.9     Rosalie Doolittle, Southwest Gardening (1967)
635.9      Baker H. Morrow, Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes (1995)
635.9     Judith Phillips, New Mexico Gardener's Guide (1998)
635.9     Judith Phillips, Southwestern Landscaping with Native Plants (1987)
636.592      George Brookbank, Desert Landscaping (1992)
641.5978      Sheila M. Cameron, New Mexico Magazine's The Best from New Mexico's Kitchens (1978)
693.22      Paul Graham McHenry, Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings : design and construction (1984)

The Arts
709.01     Arthur H. Rohn, Rock Art of Bandelier National Monument (1989)
709.01     Polly Schaafsma, Indian Rock Art of the Southwest (1980)
709.789      Museum of Fine Arts, Artists of 20th Century New Mexico (1992)
712.6      Sydney LeBlanc, Secret Gardens of Santa Fe (1997)
720.9      Anne Taylor, Southwestern ornamentation & design : the architecture of John Gaw Meem (1989)
720.92     Bainbridge Bunting, John Gaw Meem, Southwestern Architect (1983)
720.92     Carl D. Sheppard, Creator of the Santa Fe Syle : Isaac Hamilton Rapp, architect (1987)
720.97     Jerome Iowa, Ageless Adobe : history and pres ervation in Southwestern architecture (1985)
721.0444     Orlando Romero, Adobe : Building and Living with Earth (1994)
728     Dennis Landt, Behind adobe walls : the hidden homes and gardens of Santa Fe and Taos (1997)
728     Christine Mather, Santa Fe Style (1986)
728     Paula Panich, Desert Southwest Gardens (1990)
728     Beverly Spears, American adobes : rural houses of northern New Mexico (1986)
728.37     Michael Reynolds, Earthship (1990-)
728.63     John O'Connor, The Adobe Book (1973)
728.63     Myrtle Stedman, Adobe Architecture (1973)
728.63     Marcia Southwick, Build with Adobe (1974)
729     Elmo Baca, Santa Fe Design (1990)
729.3     Nancy Hunter Warren, New Mexico style : a sourcebook of traditional architectural details (1995)
738     J. J. Brody, Mimbres Painted Pottery (1977)
738.309     Betty Lefree, Santa Clara Pottery Today (1975)
739.532     Lane Coulter, New Mexican Tinwork (1990)
741.966     Polly Schaafsma, Rock Art in New Mexico (1972)
745.09     Robin Farwell Gavin, Traditional Arts of Spanish New Mexico (1994)
746.72     Frederick Dockstader, Song of the Loom: new traditions in Navajo weaving (1987)
749.2     Lonn Taylor, New Mexican furniture, 1600-1940 : ... furniture making in the Hispanic Southwest (1987)
749.218     Elmo Baca, Rio Grande high style : furniture craftsmen (1995)
759.13      Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper (1985)
759.189     Mary Carroll Nelson, Legendary Artists of Taos (1980)
759.189     Sharyn Udall, Modernist Painting in New Mexico, 1913-1935 (1984)
759.189     Sharyn Udall, Santa Fe art colony, 1900-1942 (1987)
779.36     John Nichols, The Sky's the Limit : a defense of the Earth (1990)

Literature
810.9     Marta Weigle, Santa Fe and Taos : the writer's era, 1916-1941 (1982)
814      Tony Hillerman, The Great Taos Bank Robbery, and other Indian country affairs (1973)
810      Blue Mesa Review (1989-)

Travel, History
917.8956      Kay Matthews, Hiking the Mountain Trails of Santa Fe : a guide to trails, people, places, and events (1995)
917.8956      Elaine Pinkerton, Santa Fe on foot : adventures in the city different (1994)
917.9      Sierra Club guides to the national parks of the desert Southwest (1984)
920.0789      John Pen La Farge, Turn left at the Sleeping Dog : scripting the Santa Fe legend, 1920-1955 (2001)
970.1     Joe S. Sando, Pueblo Nations : eight centuries of Pueblo Indian history (1992)
970.3     Donald Pike, Anasazi : ancient people of the rock (1974)
970.3     Frank Waters, Book of the Hopi (1963)
970.489     Bertha Dutton, Indians of the American Southwest (1975)
970.692     The Zunis : Self-Portrayals (1972)
973.16     Stewart L. Udall, To the Inland Empire: Coronado and our Spanish Legacy (1987)
978     Joan Myers, Along the Santa Fe Trail / photographs by Joan Myers ; essay by Marc Simmons (1986)
978     Herbert Eugene Bolton, Coronado : knight of pueblos and plains (1949)
978.82     Robert Hill Lister, Chaco Canyon : archaeology and archaeologists (1981)
978.83     Paul Horgan, Great River : the Rio Grande in North American history (1954)
978.849      William Eno Debuys, Enchantment and Exploitation--The Life ...of a New Mexico Mountain Range (1985)
978.9      Howard Bryan, Robbers, rogues, and ruffians : true tales of the Wild West (1991)
978.9      Alice Bullock, Living legends of the Santa Fe Country; a pictorial guidebook (1978)
978.9      Fra Angelico Chavez, My Penitente Land : Reflections on Spanish New Mexico (1974)
978.9      Thomas E. Chavez, An Illustrated History of New Mexico (1992)
978.9      R. L. Duffus, The Santa Fe Trail (1958)
978.9      Erna Fergusson, New Mexico, a pageant of three peoples (1964)
978.9      Tony Hillerman, The Spell of New Mexico (1976)
978.9      Paul Horgan, The Centuries of Santa Fe (1956)
978.9      Myra Ellen Jenkins, A Brief History of New Mexico (1974)
978.9      Oliver La Farge, Behind the Mountains (1956)
978.9      David Muench, New Mexico (1974)
978.9      Chilton et al., New Mexico, A Guide to the Colorful State (1984)
978.9      James E. Sherman, Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico (1975)
978.9      Marc Simmons, New Mexico : a Bicentennial history (1977)
978.9      Marc Simmons, Coronado's land : essays on daily life in colonial New Mexico (1991)
978.9      Henry Jack Tobias, A History of the Jews in New Mexico (1990)
978.9      Herbert Ungnade, Guide to the New Mexico Mountains (1972)
978.9      Nancy Hunter Warren, Villages of Hispanic New Mexico (1987)
978.9003      Thomas Matthew Pearce, New Mexico Place Names; a geographical dictionary (1965)
978.95      William Eno Debuys, River of Traps : a village life (1990)
978.953      Nancy Wood, Taos Pueblo (1989)
978.956      David Grant Noble, Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City (1989)
978.956      Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area (1990)
978.956      Susan Hazen-Hammond, A Short History of Santa Fe (1988)
978.956      Oliver La Farge, Santa Fe; the autobiography of a southwestern town (1959)
978.956      John Sherman, Santa Fe, a pictorial history (1983)
978.956      Donald J. Usner, Sabino's Map : Life in Chimayo's Old Plaza (1995)
978.956      Chris Wilson, The myth of Santa Fe : creating a modern regional tradition (1997)
978.982      David Grant Noble, New Light on Chaco Canyon (1984)
978.982      Robert H. Lister, Chaco Canyon : Archaeology and archaeologists (1981)
979      Alex Patterson, A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest (1992)
979.01      William M. Ferguson, Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in color (1986)

Biographies
B:Billy      Donald Cline, Alias Billy the Kid: the Man Behind the Legend (1986)
B:Lamy      Paul Horgan, Lamy of Santa Fe, his life and times (1975)
B:Luhan     Emily Hahn, Mabel : a biography of Mabel Dodge Luhan (1977)
B:Luhan     Mabel Dodge Luhan, Winter in Taos (1935)
B:Luhan     Mabel Dodge Luhan, Edge of Taos Desert : an escape to reality (1937)
B:Martinez      Susan Peterson, The Living Tradition of María Martínez (1977)
B:O'Keeffe      Jeffrey Hogrefe, O'Keeffe : the life of an American legend (1992)
B:O'Keeffe      Christine Taylor Patten & Alvaro Cardona-Hine, Miss O'Keeffe (1992)
B:Onate      Marc Simmons, The last conquistador : Juan de Oñate and the settling of the far Southwest (1991)
B:Russell      Marion Sloan Russell, Land of enchantment : memoirs of Marian Russell along the Santa Fé Trail (1954)
B:Warner     Peggy Pond Church, The House at Otowi Bridge; the story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos (1960)

Updated April 22, 2004.
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