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Best Of The Desert Southwest
1.
Desert Solitaire
by:
Edward Abbey
4.18 avg rating — 53,107 ratings
2.
The False Prophet (Stonegate, #2)
by:
Harry James Fox
4.51 avg rating — 72 ratings
3.
The Stonegate Sword: (Stonegate #1)
by:
Harry James Fox
4.37 avg rating — 136 ratings
4.
The Wild Birds
by:
Emily Strelow
3.98 avg rating — 347 ratings
5.
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by:
Wallace Stegner
4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
6.
Down the River
by:
Edward Abbey
4.18 avg rating — 2,476 ratings
7.
Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
by:
W.L. Rusho
4.14 avg rating — 533 ratings
8.
The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West
by:
Edward Abbey
4.18 avg rating — 2,902 ratings
9.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
by:
Marc Reisner
4.28 avg rating — 11,658 ratings
10.
The Secret Knowledge of Water
by:
Craig Childs
4.29 avg rating — 2,773 ratings
11.
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven
by:
Barry Lopez
4.21 avg rating — 314 ratings
12.
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
by:
Ellen Meloy
4.02 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
13.
Walks Away Woman
by:
Ki Longfellow
4.37 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
14.
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
by:
Terry Tempest Williams
4.04 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
15.
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
by:
John Wesley Powell
3.91 avg rating — 1,998 ratings
16.
The Never-Open Desert Diner (Ben Jones, #1)
by:
James Anderson
3.90 avg rating — 3,050 ratings
17.
The Desert
by:
J.C. Van Dyke
3.93 avg rating — 67 ratings
17.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
by:
Willa Cather
3.97 avg rating — 41,762 ratings
19.
Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado
by:
Douglas Preston
4.31 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
20.
Desert Images
by:
Edward Abbey
4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
20.
Going Back to Bisbee
by:
Richard Shelton
4.17 avg rating — 368 ratings
22.
The Man Who Walked Through Time: The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
by:
Colin Fletcher
3.95 avg rating — 2,657 ratings
23.
Hillerman Country: A Journey Through the Southwest With Tony Hillerman
by:
Tony Hillerman
4.24 avg rating — 331 ratings
24.
The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other True Stories of the Southwest
by:
Tony Hillerman
3.82 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
25.
Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman
by:
George Herriman
4.38 avg rating — 789 ratings
25.
Krazy Kat & the Art of George Herriman: A Celebration
by:
Craig Yoe
4.22 avg rating — 55 ratings
27.
San Mateo's Axe
by:
Terry Lee Fowler
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
27.
Skywater
by:
Melinda Worth Popham
4.22 avg rating — 134 ratings
27.
The Legendary Life of Bee Ho Gray
by:
Clark Gray
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
27.
A Good Trade: Three Generations of Life and Trading in and around Gallup, NM.
by:
John D. Kennedy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
27.
The Land of Little Rain
by:
Mary Hunter Austin
3.87 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
27.
Moki Steps
by:
J. Reed Rich
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
27.
Mystery Mountain
by:
Florence Laughlin
4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
27.
Oasis
by:
Jim Harrison
3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings
27.
Spin a Silver Dollar
by:
Alberta Pierson Hannum
4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings
27.
The Gates of Eden
by:
Nadene LeCheminant
4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
27.
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
by:
Cormac McCarthy
4.16 avg rating — 204,433 ratings
27.
Mystery in the Desert
by:
Jack Woolgar
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
27.
Double Wide (Whip Stark Book 1)
by:
Leo W. Banks
4.08 avg rating — 1,529 ratings
27.
History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893
by:
Frederic L. Paxson
3.84 avg rating — 241 ratings
27.
Old Magic: Lives of the Desert Shamans
by:
Nicholas Clapp
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
27.
Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
by:
Sunaura Taylor
4.62 avg rating — 71 ratings
27.
Wolvers
by:
Taylor Brown
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
44.
Texas: Ghost Towns, Gas Stations, and a 20-Foot Cowboy
by:
Jack Knox
4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
44.
Jack Dykinga's Arizona
by:
Jack Dykinga
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
44.
Navajo Ceremonial Baskets: Sacred Symbols Sacred Space
by:
Georgianna Kennedy Simpson
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
44.
A History of the Ancient Southwest
by:
Stephen H. Lekson
4.36 avg rating — 53 ratings
44.
No Country for Old Men
by:
Cormac McCarthy
4.17 avg rating — 233,374 ratings
49.
Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo
by:
Richard Hugo
4.43 avg rating — 544 ratings
49.
Aldo Leopold's Southwest
by:
Neil B. Carmony
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 69 ratings
49.
The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
by:
David Roberts
4.18 avg rating — 674 ratings
49.
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West
by:
Donald Worster
3.85 avg rating — 396 ratings
53.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by:
Hunter S. Thompson
4.07 avg rating — 370,578 ratings
53.
The Case of the Indian Trader: Billy Malone and the National Park Service Investigation at Hubbell Trading Post
by:
Paul Berkowitz
3.85 avg rating — 41 ratings
53.
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
by:
Edward Abbey
4.23 avg rating — 895 ratings
53.
Grand Canyon Women: Lives Shaped by Landscape
by:
Betty Leavengood
4.04 avg rating — 114 ratings
57.
Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River
by:
Gary Hansen
3.93 avg rating — 973 ratings
57.
The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore
by:
David Dary
3.77 avg rating — 102 ratings
59.
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
by:
Martha Summerhayes
4.06 avg rating — 421 ratings
59.
Chewing Sand: An Eco-Spiritual Taste of the Mojave Desert
by:
Gail Collins-Ranadive
4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
59.
Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven / River Notes: The Dance of Herons
by:
Barry Lopez
4.12 avg rating — 652 ratings
59.
Palm Springs Modern Living
by:
James Schnepf
3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
63.
Scenes in America Deserta
by:
Reyner Banham
4.17 avg rating — 42 ratings
63.
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
by:
Ellen Meloy
4.15 avg rating — 718 ratings
63.
Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley
by:
Brent Underwood
4.02 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
66.
Images in Stone
by:
David Muench
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
66.
River Master: John Wesley Powell's Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
by:
Cecil Kuhne
3.72 avg rating — 57 ratings
68.
Rock Art of the American Southwest
by:
Scott Thybony
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
68.
The Lost Canyon of Gold: The Discovery of the Legendary Lost Adams Diggings
by:
W.C. Jameson
4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
70.
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
by:
Amy Irvine
3.81 avg rating — 315 ratings
70.
Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
by:
Stephen Nash
3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
72.
How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners
by:
David Feela
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
73.
Recapture & other stories
by:
Erica Olsen
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
73.
Sedona Through Time
by:
Wayne Ranney
3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
75.
Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide
by:
David Grant Noble
4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
75.
Moon Grand Canyon
by:
Kathleen Bryant
3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
77.
Red Rock, Blue Sky: Mysterious Landscapes of the Southwest
by:
Linde Waidhofer
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
77.
No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon
by:
Erik Weihenmayer
4.10 avg rating — 851 ratings
79.
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
by:
Craig Childs
4.20 avg rating — 2,411 ratings
80.
Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest
by:
David Roberts
3.46 avg rating — 373 ratings
81.
Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology
by:
David Gregory
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
82.
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
by:
James F. Brooks
3.79 avg rating — 217 ratings
83.
Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions (Shire Library USA, 640)
by:
Carol Hayes
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
84.
The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion that Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
by:
David Roberts
3.88 avg rating — 467 ratings
85.
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
by:
Hannah Nordhaus
3.44 avg rating — 3,000 ratings
86.
Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
by:
Stephen Plog
3.90 avg rating — 186 ratings
87.
Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni
by:
Allan Hayes
4.13 avg rating — 55 ratings
88.
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
by:
John N. Maclean
4.17 avg rating — 1,526 ratings