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101 Most Popular Southwest Titles

published from 1995-2004 in order of popularity from Santa Fe Public Library 

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>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  (video only)

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